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VMUG is Free, but VMUG Advantage With EVAL Experience is Better for a Reasonable $200/Year

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: May 1, 2019

This has been in my draft for ages and I apologize for that not publish about this earlier. I’m sure that most likely everyone knows, BUT just to make sure that all my readership gets the message too. Today I’d like to highlight that VMUG is Free, but VMUG Advantage With EVAL Experience is Better […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff, Home Lab, Tips Tagged With: VMUG is Free

Install and Configure VMware vCSA 6.7

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: April 26, 2025

This is a lab deployment of VMware vCSA 6.7. As you might notice, a few days ago we had a series of posts on VMware vSphere 6.7 which has just been announced and released the same day (a miracle?). Yeah, we downloaded the bits so it’s a lab time today to put things in works. vSphere […]

| Filed Under: Home Lab, How To, Server Virtualization, Videos Tagged With: vcsa 6.7 Installation

Swiss Knife MobaXterm for Remote Administration Has also free version

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: April 1, 2018

For remote administration, there are tons of tools around. Paid and free. Today we’ll have a look at MobaXterm which is one of them. Previously we looked at few other tools such as mRemoteNG or RoyalTS. Remote administration is daily bread and butter of every IT admin so to test different software solutions before choosing the one […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff, Home Lab, Tips

Intel Optane 900P Low Price NVMe might Be a Perfect Fit For a Home Lab

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: November 23, 2023

Intel Optane SSD 900P from Intel

This news came from a fellow blogger Erik Bussink with who I had a conversation on Twitter last week. Erik has a MEGA homelab and he put me in a right direction when it comes to a choice of NVMe SSD for a VSAN cache tier. We’ll talk about Intel Optane 900p which might be a game […]

| Filed Under: Home Lab, Server Virtualization Tagged With: Intel Optane 900P

How to Clean Previous Windows Installation Files after latest Windows 10 Update

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: April 13, 2017

Windows 10 Anniversary

As you know, recently Microsoft has started pushing Windows update also called Windows Anniversary Update. It is the 1703 version. This update has brought many new features which has been announced since long time ago. I particularly liked the security enhancements which came with Windows Defender pushing things further with improvements with an independent testing score […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff, Home Lab, Windows 10, Windows Server 2016 Tagged With: Clean Previous Windows Installation Files after latest Windows 10 Update

How to Disable Auto Lock on Windows Server via Group policy

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: March 24, 2017

How to create a GPO

The problem with the auto lock feature is that it really slow down when working in a multi-server environment in a lab. This is especially true of lab environments. Servers in lab environments are usually used much more than usual production servers. So, in the long run, the automatic lock can be especially painful. In this post, […]

| Filed Under: Home Lab, How To, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2016 Tagged With: How to Disable Auto Lock on Windows Server via Group policy

TeraCopy 3.0 release – A popular file transfer utility

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: November 15, 2022

TeraCopy 3 Released

TeraCopy 3.0 – A popular file transfer utility has been released a few days ago bringing better UI, faster copy speed, and easier usage. The product brought some significant improvements from the past releases and introduces also new file replace dialog, copy with elevated Windows Service and VSS or support for an unlimited number of files. […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff, Home Lab Tagged With: Teracopy 3.0

DISM ++ is Free Utility better than the command line version

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: November 9, 2022

DISM plus plus toolkit

DISM ++ is a freeware application which allows managing of WIM images and also your PC. I’d recommend doing a full image backup (with Veeam endpoint for example) before using this software. DISM ++ is Free Utility which is very promising. To manage WIM images and do different Windows optimizations and cleaning. In fact, it is better […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff, Home Lab Tagged With: DISM ++ is Free Utility

Three Ways to Enable ESXi Shell and Timeout

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: January 16, 2017

3 ways to enable ESXi Shell

There are several ways to enable ESXi shell, so we’ll look into it, and also we will also look at an option, to set a timeout setting for the ESXi Shell. This will allow you to set a value (in minutes) which will elapse before you must log in after the ESXi Shell is enabled. […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff, Home Lab Tagged With: Three Ways to Enable ESXi Shell and Tip to configure Timeout

How To Recover a vCenter VM if vCenter Is Down – With Nakivo

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: December 21, 2016

How to recover vCenter VM via Nakivo

Playing with the lab sometimes break things. If you break an ordinary VM, it does not really matter. But what if the VM is a vCenter VM? Recently that has happened to my vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) 6.5. Impossible to connect and dig into the services, to start them up. No VMware snapshot either. But […]

| Filed Under: Backup, Home Lab Tagged With: How To Recover a vCenter VM if vCenter Is Down - With Nakivo

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