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 […]
How to install SMIS Provider for your LSI/Avago controller card on VMware ESXi
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 […]
How To Enable Sparse Swap on VSAN [Guide]
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 […]
OCZ RevoDrive 400 Crystal Mark 2.6GB/s read and 1.6GB/s write
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 […]
Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V on VMware
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 […]
PassMark OSFMount – Free utility to create RAM Disk or mount images as local disks
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 […]
HP ZBook Studio – A new (Real) competitor of Mac Book Pro?
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 […]
How To Erase ESXi Disks With ESXi Host Client v3
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 […]
Windows 10 Install.esd to ISO – Easy Convert With NTlite
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 […]
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 […]
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