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Proxmox Virtual Environment (VE) as a VMware Alternative?

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Ok, let’s continue our series of articles about VMware alternatives. Not easy, I tell you. Basically, there is not one solution that can satisfy all. Microsoft’s Hyper-V will be soon EOL too, VMware ESXi announced EOL last week, what’s left? This post will be about Proxmox Virtual Environment (VE). We have already talked about XCP-NG […]

Linux Lite: A Popular and User-Friendly Linux Distribution

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Linux Lite is a project that started in 2012, and the goal is to deliver free, lightweight linux distribution with nice UI, choice of different browsers, Full office suite. Based on Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS, the distro is available as ISO, torrent, but you can also support their efforts by buying a DVD or USB flash […]

VMware vCenter Server Converter 6.6 Released

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VMware, after a public beta period, has released a new version of conversion tool that every VMware admin knows – VMware vCenter Server Converter 6.6 Released is the title of today’s post. As you know, VMware converter can do P2V or V2V. The software is FREE and can help you to convert from physical or […]

Nutanix Community Edition

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I feel this is the right timing for this. By VMware ending ESXi FREE Hypervisor, people running their home labs have no choice – switch to another FREE Hypervisor. We have detailed the announce – Best VMware Alternatives – ESXi FREE is DEAD – and we were not particularly happy with that, but hey, the […]

How-to Enhance your company’s security with Role-Based Access Control in Nakivo Backup and Replication

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If you’re thinking of any backup solution, think that while you working in an IT team, you need to separate the tasks and separate the roles the each of your team member have. Some team members needs to see backup jobs, other needs to have full access to backup and replication jobs. In this post […]

How to install and run Xen Orchestra Lite

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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 some initial problems, now resolved) by reading the forums, I discovered that there is actually a host client! It’s name is XO Lite and […]

Another VMware Alternative – Verge.IO

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Let’s continue our exploration about some viable VMware alternatives when it comes to infrastructure virtualization. As you could read in our introductory article – Best VMware Alternatives – ESXi FREE is DEAD – we will do some digging into some VMware alternatives which might be useful for users willing to step out of their comfort […]

XCP-NG Virtualization Platform with management by Xen Orchestra

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One of the first virtualization platforms out there which is getting its popularity exploding is XCP-NG virtualization platform by vates.tech from France. It all started in 2011-2012 so it’s not a new platform. UPDATE: Make sure to read the update as I have finally managed to find the time and redeploy the Xen Orchestra. It’s […]

Best VMware Alternatives – ESXi FREE is DEAD

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In this series of posts that we’ll be creating over the next couple of weeks, we’ll try to list the best VMware Alternatives for virtualization of servers. Many alternative vendors does not do VDI so we won’t include those in our series. VMware does VDI pretty well and their Horizon/One products got pretty good over […]