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How to Install VCSA 6.5 in VMware Workstation [LAB]

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: January 4, 2020

How to deploy VMware VCSA 6.5 in VMware Workstation

This is lab time -:). Normally you don’t do that on your production deployment. This is a guide on How to install VCSA 6.5 in VMware Workstation and see the different configuration options within the VMware vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) 6.5.  Yes, As you know, we have VMware vSphere 6.5 in GA state (General Availability), […]

| Filed Under: Home Lab, Server Virtualization Tagged With: How to Install VCSA 6.5 in VMware Workstation

Free How-To Guide To Build Your Own NetApp ONTAP 9 Lab!

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: October 11, 2019

How to PDF Tutorial - complete NetApp simulator lab from scratch, using NetApp’s latest operating system ONTAP 9.

One of my readers, Neil Anderson from Glasgow, wanted me to share a few words about his new How-to guide to Build Your Own NetApp ONTAP 9 Lab. Neil has a new blog at https://www.flackbox.com/about-neil/ and, as he does not get that much traffic as a new blogger, he asked me to give him a […]

| Filed Under: Home Lab Tagged With: How-To Guide To Build Your Own NetApp ONTAP 9

Introduction to Turnkey Linux Appliances with No Pain

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: July 21, 2016

Turnkey Linux Maketplace

The title was meant to be captive. I hope it is, because today we’ll show you an easy way to play with downloadable Linux VMs (but not only) which are prepackaged as Virtual appliances ready to go. Turnkey Linux Appliances are free downloads. The way that they’re prepackaged is quite interesting as when you download them […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff, Home Lab Tagged With: Turnkey Linux Appliances

How to install SMIS Provider for your LSI/Avago controller card on VMware ESXi

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 17, 2017

How to install SMIS provider from Avago

If you happen to have ESXi running on a hardware with LSI/Avago storage controller/Raid card, you may (or not) have troubles to see the hardware health status. I haven’t particularly paid attention to this when setting up my lab. The hardware I’m using (the LSI SAS 3008) is on VMware HCL but there wasn’t any […]

| Filed Under: Home Lab Tagged With: Avago SMIS provider, VMWare ESXi

How To Enable Sparse Swap on VSAN [Guide]

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: June 29, 2016

VMware Sparse Swap - How to Enable

As you know VM Swap file only exists when VM is running. Powered On. I’m currently testing an AF VSAN cluster in the lab with 2 hosts + Witness, where the witness is running on a third host (kind of Remote office scenario), and one of the things that allow saving, even more, space on your […]

| Filed Under: Home Lab, Server Virtualization Tagged With: Sparse Swap on VSAN

OCZ RevoDrive 400 Crystal Mark 2.6GB/s read and 1.6GB/s write

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 17, 2017

OCZ Revo Drive 400

OCZ is showcasting at CES their upcoming Revodrive 400 PCIe NVMe drive. It seems that the Toshiba based 15 nm MLC NAND based SSD has some excellent performance. Hitting 2.6GB/s read and 1.6GB/s write in CrystalDiskMark. As being said, the OCZ RevoDrive 400 PCIe NVMe SSD has been benchmarked during CES 2016 show and it has sequential […]

| Filed Under: Home Lab Tagged With: OCZ, OCZ RevoDrive 400

Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V on VMware

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: June 16, 2016

How to install Hyper-V 2016 on VMware ESXi

Windows Server 2016 TP4 was released few weeks back. Lots of new stuff is coming in the upcoming Windows Server 2016, including Hyper-V. In one of my previous posts we have showed the installation of installation of Windows Server 2016 and activation of Hyper-V role by using VMware Workstation. We were actually testing the hot-add/remove […]

| Filed Under: Home Lab, How To, Windows Server 2016

PassMark OSFMount – Free utility to create RAM Disk or mount images as local disks

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 17, 2017

OSF Mount freeware to create RAM disk

I stumbled through this utility called OSFMount, which is Free utility to create RAM Disk. It can also mount images as local disks. This free utility isn’t new, but it’s first time I’m testing it. The interest and curiosity had me download this software and quickly create 32Gb RAM Disk on my destkop workstation which […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff, Home Lab Tagged With: Free utility to create RAM Disk

HP ZBook Studio – A new (Real) competitor of Mac Book Pro?

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: August 22, 2022

HP ZBook Studio

Today’s announce of HP for their new ZBook Studio took my attention. Why? Because my old Samsung NP900x3A Ultrabook is getting old… the resolution isn’t what I’d expect now, my GoPro videos are kind of sluggish to edit. So I’m in a process of researching a new laptop gear which is not only portable (up to 2 […]

| Filed Under: Featured, Home Lab Tagged With: HP ZBook Studio

How To Erase ESXi Disks With ESXi Host Client v3

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 17, 2017

Newly released ESXi host client v3 (already) has been up for few weeks. I’ve been quite busy visiting VMworld Barcelona and VeeamON recently. However I’m back home, at Reunion, and can fully work as usually. Homelabbing, blogging and providing IT services to few clients localy here where I live. Today we will focus on quick […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff, Home Lab Tagged With: Erase ESXi Disks With ESXi Host Client, ESXi Host Client

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