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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

Windows 10 Install.esd to ISO – Easy Convert With NTlite

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: August 28, 2015

NTlite Beta

There is a cool utility to convert Windows 10 install.esd to an ISO image. The main purpose of the tool is however to customize Windows images, removing components from ISOs, driver integration, language packs or apps integration. Few weeks back when I downloaded the Microsoft Windows 10 to my USB stick I did it in […]

| Filed Under: Desktop Virtualization, Free Stuff, Home Lab Tagged With: Windows 10 Install.esd to ISO

Windows 10 Cleanup Windows.old Directory After Upgrade

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: August 25, 2015

Windows 10 Cleanup Windows.old Directory After Upgrade

After upgrading to Windows 10 you might wonder that it would bee good idea to clean the old Windows files and files left after the succefull upgrade process finished. If you browse the root of your system drive, and you’ll probably find two directories quite large in size — $Windows.~BT, and $Windows.~WS, and also a Windows.old […]

| Filed Under: Home Lab, How To Tagged With: Windows 10 Cleanup Windows.old

ESXi FREE Web Client Interface

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: May 4, 2016

ESXi host client

New free tool (fling) from VMware labs now allows to manage ESXi host via web client without the need of vCenter server. ESXi Free Web client interface (HTML 5 based) allows to manage a host without the need of the legacy C++ Windows client. The utility is bundled as a vib and can be installed […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff, Home Lab Tagged With: ESXi FREE Web Client Interface

Building Energy Efficient ESXi Home Lab – parts list

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 17, 2017

Fractal Design r5 Back - Notice the cabling and additional 2 SSD slots

The main problem with an ESXi home lab running 7/7 is usually one factor – Power consumption as a primary ongoing cost. Especially when you run a lab with a several hosts. Additional factors like cooling or noise can be usually solved by moving the server(s) to the separate room with natural airflow, but the power consumption is […]

| Filed Under: Home Lab Tagged With: Energy Efficient ESXi Home Lab

Free Virtual VNX software to Download – A full-featured version of vVNX

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: August 22, 2022

There is free download for users who wants to play with Virtual VNX software – a community edition. In fact you can download an OVF file (after registration) which will deploy a virtual VNX which you can use in the lab as a shared storage. Apparently the release does supports VVOLs so it’s a good chance […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff, Home Lab Tagged With: Free Virtual VNX

WinReducer for W8.x, W10 can customize Windows ISO

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 17, 2017

Winreducer - load the WIndows 8.1 iso

If you know Nlite (now supports W8 and W10 preview too) you probably like customizing Windows ISOs. There has always been an alternative called WinReducer that I blogged about in the past. The good news is that this free software got an update recently and is able to support W7 up to W10 (preview). WinReducer for W8.x, […]

| Filed Under: Desktop Virtualization, Free Stuff, Home Lab Tagged With: W10 can customize Windows ISO, WinReducer for W8.x

Install ESXi 6 to USB as Destination or Have it as Source (USB installer)

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: March 31, 2015

Install ESXi USB

VMware ESXi hypervisor can be installed on USB stick, but you can also create USB stick which contains ESXi installer in case your server does not have CD/DVD drive. You could see in my previous post when wrote small tutorial on Install VMware ESXi on USB memory stick by using Unetbootin Freeware. I received few questions through […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff, Home Lab, How To Tagged With: install ESXi 6 to USB, Install ESXi to USB, Use YUMI to create multiboot ESXi 6 and USXi 5.x with other Distros!

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