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Heartbeat vs Node Majority StarWind VSAN Failover Strategy

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: June 23, 2025

High availability (HA) protected workloads is something we want in production. Knowing that our workload will continue to be available (restarted) on remaining node is something we want to have. HA is not Fault tolerance so our workload will experience small downtime, before being restarted on another node in a cluster, but that’s something we […]

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Vulnerability in your VMs – VMware Tools Update

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: May 19, 2025

Recent news about vulnerabilities siting quietly inside our VMware VMs is rather worrying. What if, attacker was going to hack our infrastructure from inside of our VMs? And what if not only Windows VMs, but also Linux VMs were affected? VMware Tools Update is important as your ESXi patch update. This vulnerability is labeled as […]

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FREE version of StarWind VSAN vs Trial of Full version

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: May 27, 2025

StarWind software has a free version of their product VSAN. This is not new. However, many people ignore that the free version is not the same as the trial version (30 days trial). In this post we’ll point out some of the differences between the Trial version of StarWind VSAN and the Lifetime FREE version. […]

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Commvault’s Innovations at RSA Conference 2025 San Francisco

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: April 29, 2025

Commvault is attending a RSA Conference 2025 in San Francisco this week and what they are showing is very innovative. For those of you who does not know anything about this conference, you might wander what to expect? In fact, the same way I’ve been attending VMworld (or VMware Explore) for virtualization during the last […]

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VMware ESXi FREE is FREE again!

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: April 26, 2025

With the latest release of v8.0 U3e, VMware/Broadcom made bare metal hypervisor again FREE of charge. A while ago we have reported – Best VMware Alternatives – ESXi FREE is DEAD (this was 12 February 2024) that Broadcom killed the FREE VMware Hypervisor and what alternatives you had to run a FREE hypervisor in your […]

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Installation of StarWind VSAN Plugin for vSphere

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: April 7, 2025

StarWind VSAN is a perfect solution to replace your aging hardware SAN device and save money. In addition, it’s a perfect solution for ROBO environments where you still need High Availability (HA) and resilience. A simple, two-node setup use StarWind VSAN where the internal storage of your hosts are used to create a HA storage […]

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Protect Mixed environments with Nakivo Physical Machine recovery (bare metal)

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: May 19, 2025

With Nakivo Backup and Replication, you can protect your virtual environments, but also mixed environments where you still run some physical servers or PCs. We can see it fairly often that in very small structures that people are working on their PCs and those PCs aren’t protected in any way. Then when those machines are […]

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No more FREE licenses of VMware vSphere for vExperts – What’s your options?

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: March 25, 2025

Another sad news for VMware vExpert community today. As you might know, VMware vExperts has always had access to most of VMware licenses through the vExpert program. This was always the case and either John Troyer or Corey Romero had always did their best,  so we can have those licenses for our labs so we […]

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Tails – Your Private OS on USB Stick

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: March 24, 2025

I just stumbled through Tails and I thoughts that I’d share with you, my readers. Sorry about not much recent updates on the blog but I was sick with a flu and this was around for a while, so. But it’s over now and I’m back. So what is Tails all about? It is a […]

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StarWind V2V Converter Now has CLI

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: March 14, 2025

Latest release of StarWind’s V2V Converter can now use CLI to convert VMs Hyper-V, ESXi or Proxmox. This is the latest Version 9 (build 623) that has been released end of Jan 2025. The software is completely free and unlike other products, the V2V converter can also skip copy creation during the process. So Let’s […]

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