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Homelab for cheap with new AMD CPUs?

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: July 1, 2019

Homelabs were always great for learning IT and virtualization. Back in a day, you had to chose the right Motherboard, CPU, memory, and storage, and put it all together, to hope to have almost production “beast” at home. Nowadays, with cloud, we see fewer folks building homelabs because the cloud allows you to build a […]

| Filed Under: Cloud, Server Virtualization, Tips Tagged With: Homelab for cheap with new AMD CPUs

Better Windows Shell and Terminal Emulator – Cmder

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: November 9, 2022

Cmder is a terminal emulator, and best shell you’ll ever have on Windows. Or at least what’s the editor of this free software says about their product. In fact, a few weeks back Microsoft has announced that they are working on new command shell with multi tabs and multi-color features, but the product is only […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff, Tips Tagged With: Better Windows Shell and Terminal Emulator

Appliance (OS) root password is expired – vSphere 6.7

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: May 25, 2020

I had this message on one of my vCenter server appliances when I was going to run an update. I’m running my vCenter server in a linked mode in the lab. The messages says that “Appliance (OS) root password is expired“. In fact, just today I noticed that VMware just released a new update – […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff, How To, Server Virtualization, Tips Tagged With: Appliance (OS) root password is expired

Windows Admin Center Deep Dive Webinar

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: July 21, 2020

Windows Admin Center (WAC) is the new administration tool for Windows Servers. It’s a separate tool which started as Project Honolulu a few years back. Now it clearly makes it one of the top tools to have for Windows infrastructure. There is a Windows Admin Center Deep Dive webinar organized by Altaro, the 9th of […]

| Filed Under: Backup, Tips, Windows Server 2019 Tagged With: Windows Admin Center

VMware vExpert 2019 – This is vExpert x11

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: March 14, 2019

I can’t believe it has been already 11 years since I have received my first vExpert award from VMware. Time is the only variable you can’t influence unless having a way back machine -:). I’m very honored again being awarded a vExpert by VMware. Thanks to Corey Romero and the team for the award. There […]

| Filed Under: Tips Tagged With: VMware vExpert 2019

How To Migrate Shares and Files with ease by using Microsoft Storage Migration Service – Part 2

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 18, 2019

today we’ll go and see the steps which need to be done in order to migrate file shares from our old server to a new one. This post will teach you How To Migrate Shares and Files with ease by using Microsoft Storage Migration Service. This is part 2. Please read the Introduction post – How To […]

| Filed Under: How To, Tips, Windows Server 2019 Tagged With: Migrate Shares and Files

How To Migrate Shares and Files with ease by using Microsoft Storage Migration Service

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 18, 2019

Large migrations are not easy and so far, Microsoft did not have an efficient tool to do so. Admins had to use Robocopy at best in order to retain shares, NTFS permissions, and ownership of files and folders. In this post, we will discuss and details How To Migrate Shares and Files with ease by using […]

| Filed Under: How To, Tips, Windows Server 2019 Tagged With: How To Migrate Shares and Files

StarWind V2V Converter v9 Free Utility Updated

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: January 25, 2019

Hey readers, it’s Friday and today we have a cool news update for you. A free utility from StarWind got a new update. StarWind V2V Converter v9 build 110, which allows also P2V conversions, has been updated so now it can also convert vSphere RDM disks or introducing logging to text files, so you can […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff, Server Virtualization, Tips

How To Test Network Connectivity with netcat utility in VMware environments

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: April 26, 2025

One of the testing tools for VMware networking is netcat. We have a post which explains the basics of vmkping command here – How To Test Network Connectivity with a vmkping command in VMware environments. Check it out. Today’s post is called How To Test Network Connectivity with netcat utility in VMware environments and we’ll explore some […]

| Filed Under: How To, Server Virtualization, Tips Tagged With: How To Test Network Connectivity with netcat utility in VMware

What are VMware Learning Credits?

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: January 11, 2019

Today we’ll have a look at VMware learning credits, which are another way you can pay for training. In fact, by buying VMware Learning credits, you purchase, ahead of time, a credit which you can use later, for paying for VMware class, before passing a VCP exam for example. Just like with VCP Exam vouchers […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization, Tips

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