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Chocolatey is a cool package manager for Windows

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: December 6, 2018

If you don’t know and use chocolatey, you’re probably missing out. Chocolatey is a cool package manager for Windows. It is built on the NuGet infrastructure and it uses PowerShell. It basically delivers packages from online distributions onto your desktops. Chocolatey packages do everything via encapsulation. It does encapsulate everything that is necessary to manage a particular […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff, How To, Tips, Windows 10 Tagged With: package manager for Windows

How To Install VMware PowerCLI via PowerShell

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: April 26, 2025

First, I’d like to talk about PowerShell Core which is a module that can run on different platforms. Yes, It is a cross-platform version of PowerShell that is based on .NET Core, and this is an open source application. (Note that the “traditional”, built-in version of PowerShell is NOT open source and it is based on .NET […]

| Filed Under: Featured, Free Stuff, Tips Tagged With: How To Install VMware PowerCLI via PowerShell

Windows 10 For IT Administrators – Manage and Solve problems

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: October 2, 2018

Windows 10 IT

A fellow blogger Xavier Genestos from Spain is a very active book writer. We met each other during one VMworld conference in Barcelona. He is an IT admin and so he writes books for IT admins. This time he wrote a new book called Windows 10 For IT Administrators, covering Windows 10 in corporate environments. The […]

| Filed Under: Tips, Windows 10 Tagged With: Windows 10 For IT Administrators

How To Reset 120 Day RDS Grace Period on 2012 R2 And 2016 Server

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: January 4, 2020

Server 2012 RDS Reset 120 Day Grace Period

When you home lab and you don’t have Microsoft license for RDS, you have two options. Reinstall the server (redeploy the VM) or cheat a bit. Yes, in fact, there is cool hack which allows you to reset the 120 day grace period on Windows Server 2012 R2 RDS, and we’ll show you how. I […]

| Filed Under: Tips, Windows Server 2012 Tagged With: Reset RDS 120 Days grace period, Reset RDS licensing

How To do a Dry Run of an esxcli Installation or Upgrade on VMware ESXi

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: January 11, 2024

Perform a Dry Run of an esxcli Installation or Upgrade

The upgrade season is here. VMware has released vSphere 6.7 and soon first backup/monitoring products will be compatible. Time to learn some tricks before Installation or upgrade on VMware ESXi. You know that with VMware ESXi hypervisor you can test an upgrade. I mean run the upgrade without actually upgrading, and see the result. It […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization, Tips Tagged With: Installation or Upgrade on VMware ESXi

Why Your Presence at VMworld Will Help You in Your Career

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: June 4, 2018

I know that only a small part of IT and VMware administrators can really get to VMworld every year, but when you look at the opportunities, VMworld is the event not to miss. Whether you’re living in US or Europe, you can choose the one closer to your place. Why Your Presence at VMworld Will Help […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization, Tips Tagged With: VMworld, Why Your Presence at VMworld Will Help You in Your Career

What is vCenter Embedded Linked Mode in vSphere 6.7?

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: April 26, 2025

vCenter Embedded Linked Mode

Newly released vSphere 6.7 starts slowly make into the minds of IT admins, but as the whole backup software ecosystem isn’t ready, nobody is really upgrading just yet. It is a good time to do POC or test installations. Today, we’ll talk about What is vCenter Embedded Linked Mode in vSphere 6.7. vCenter Embedded Linked Mode is […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization, Tips Tagged With: vCenter Embedded Linked Mode

What is VMware Per-VM EVC?

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: April 26, 2025

Everyone knows how VMware EVC works on a vSphere cluster (and VMware calls it now Cluster-level EVC). vCenter Server’s CPU compatibility checks compare the CPU features available on the source host, the subset of features that the virtual machine can access, and the features available on the target host. But vSphere 6.7 has brought Per-VM EVC, […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization, Tips Tagged With: What is VMware Per-VM EVC

Runecast Analyzer Compatible with vSphere 6.7

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: June 7, 2020

Runecast 1.7.5 recently released is a release which is now compatible with VMware vSphere 6.7. While there is not many customers which jumped into the upgrade of vSphere and upgraded their environment to vSphere 6.7, the whole ecosystem is starting to push news about the compatibility for vSphere 6.7. Runecast is announcing Runecast Analyzer 1.7.5, which […]

| Filed Under: Tips Tagged With: Runecast Analyzer

How-To Create a Training Class Through Ravello Training Platform

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: May 26, 2018

Today we’ll have a look at How-To Create a Training Class Through Ravello Training Platform. If you’re a regular reader of our blog you already know that Ravello/Oracle Cloud Platform allows you not only to set up a cloud lab but also to run enterprise cloud applications as their recent upgrade allows you to run […]

| Filed Under: How To, Server Virtualization, Tips Tagged With: Ravello Training Platform

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