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Disable hibernation on Windows 7 and Windows 8 based systems – standalone and GPO configs

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: September 20, 2013

You’ve wondered how to disable hibernation in Windows 7 (W8) and why? Hibernation function on W7 (vista, 8) uses hiberfil.sys hidden system file for fast wake up. When activated hiberfil.sys is created at the root filesystem. Unfortunately, this file is usually very large depending on how much your system has physical memory. Example of my […]

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How to Remove Cached IP addresses and hostnames in vSphere client

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: June 14, 2016

If you’re IT consultant, IT guy working with VMware vSphere or just testing ESXi in your lab, after a certain time you’ll find that in your management workstation or laptop when launching the vSphere client (the Windows based) you start to accumulate the old connection settings. All those IPs and host/DNS names starts to make […]

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How to enable multiple RDP sessions on Windows

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: April 13, 2023

Multiple RDP sessions are disabled on Windows servers. It means that if you are working on the server and at the same time another administrator connects, you get disconnected because the other admin takes over. How to enable multiple RDP sessions on Windows? There is a simple way to do it and I’ll show you […]

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VMware Workstation 10 can also downgrade virtual hardware. Did you know?

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: May 7, 2020

The other day I was trying VMware Workstation 10. I can’t remember if previous release was able to downgrade the virtual hardware, but the release 10 of Workstation can. I was actually trying to upload a Windows 2012 R2 server VM which I installed by using Workstation. This is something that has been around since […]

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Homelab Storage Network Speedup with …. Infiniband

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: August 22, 2022

When I first built my homelab few years ago I never thought that one day I’ll be using anything else than 1Gig NICs for storage network. I always thought that the  FC or 10 gigs ethernet technology is out of range most of the individuals and a lot of the SMBs for years to come. […]

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Installation VMware Mirage DB on Separate SQL Server

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: May 29, 2020

VMware Mirage uses SQL database which can either be installed on the same server as the Mirage server, or the DB can be deployed on external SQL server. This post will discuss the Installation VMware Mirage DB on Separate SQL Server. Depending of the scale of the deployment taking in account the limitations of the MSDE […]

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How to Install Zentyal in Ubuntu Server

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: May 19, 2018

Zentyal is a lightweight Remote web based GUI for Ubuntu servers. The company in addition to a paid version with 3 years of suppor, also has a free community version, with limited support only (forums). The release 3.2 is in preparation, will be out in september and focuses on Samba 4.0 integration. The main features […]

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How-to turn your ESXi host into NTP server

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 21, 2020

This article will show you in few steps how-to turn your ESXi host into NTP server. It’s not the best VMware practice for production environments, but excellent for home labbing and maybe for clients with single ESXi host, where there isn’t any other physical server left which could assure an NTP service. The ESXi host […]

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How to install VIB on VMware ESXi

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: November 1, 2014

Often I get asked what’s VIB and How to install VIB in VMware ESXi. VIB packages are update packages, drivers or other third party updates to ESXi which installs by using VMware Update Manager (VUM) or directly through the local CLI. The easiest way to patch ESXi free (without update manager) is through the local CLI. […]

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VMware Horizon View 5.2 – Installation of Horizon View Connection Server

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: May 19, 2018

VMware Horizon workspace - end user

This is hands on lab video about how to install VMware Horizon View 5.2 Connection server. It’s a step-by-step video, which is another video that comes from a Free video serie produced by VMware.  You’ll learn also how-to: Setup an Event Database (New) Enter a Syslog destination (New) from within the View Administrator console Horizon View 5.2 […]

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