If you’ve been following my blog for a while (yes, we’re talking back to the early ESXi days), you know I love practical, ...

If you’ve been following my blog for a while (yes, we’re talking back to the early ESXi days), you know I love practical, cost-effective solutions that actually work in the real world — especially for ...

Hey folks, Vladan here. I’ve been writing about Veeam since version 3.0 back in the day — when it was still a relatively young VMware-centric tool and most of us were still figuring out CBT and ...

If you’re a virtualization enthusiast like me, you’ve probably spent the last couple of years watching VMware customers scramble for alternatives after the Broadcom acquisition turned licensing into a ...

This post will detail and explains some basic concept about ESXi memory reclamation technique called ballooning. What is VMware Memory Ballooning is the name of today's post. We'll put it again in our ...

Several folks asked me recently What is VMware Platform Service Controller. I've published few guides on VMware vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA), the migration of vCenter to VCSA or in-place migration ...

If you have been following the evolution of Veeam Backup & Replication over the last couple of years, you already know that version 13 marked a major architectural shift. The introduction of the Veeam ...

Hey folks, Vladan here. If you've followed my blog for any length of time, you know I'm always keeping an eye on backup and recovery solutions that make life easier for virtualization admins — ...

Well, not quite likely, but yes, VMware is developing a system that it called ESXi Live Patching. What is it? Its basically a way to patch the ESXi and install critical fixes and security patches to ...

VMware vRealize Log Insight (VRLI) is a monitoring application that is able to ingest syslog data and analyze it and make it easily consumable. In this post we will show you how to setup VMware ...

There is the time for upgrades and patches, again. Yes, again and again. New vulnerabilities that are discovered needs to be patched as soon as possible. Bugs that has been discovered, needs to be ...

This is exciting. After successfully installed my Xen Orchestra in the lab (nested with VMware Workstation. BTW, you can also use VMware Workstation Player which is FREE), when testing XCP-NG (after ...