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 […]
Protect Mixed environments with Nakivo Physical Machine recovery (bare metal)
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 […]
No more FREE licenses of VMware vSphere for vExperts – What’s your options?
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 […]
Tails – Your Private OS on USB Stick
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 […]
StarWind V2V Converter Now has CLI
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 […]
Veeam VHR ISO v2 – 2025 Download and Install
New release of popular Veeam VHR ISO v2 made its apparition in the download section recently. Veeam VHR stands for Veeam Hardened Repository and it is basically a stripped down Linux distro which allows you to install and configure ransomware-proof repository that you can use to secure your backups as those are protected by immutability […]
Deployment OVA and Installation of Nakivo Backup and Replication for VMware
Nakivo Backup and Replication is a data protection solution for virtual, physical and cloud environment that our readers knows well. For new people that has just discovered our blog, here is our first back to basis article where we’ll deploy the solution in our lab environment, configure the basics and run our first backup. As […]
XCP-NG FREE Hypervisor and XO Lite to deploy XOA
What are all those shortcuts Vladan? Hey everyone and welcome to my new blog post about alternative virtualization platforms. Yes, Free VMware has come to an end and millions of ESXi FREE users are looking for alternative solutions for their home labs, small business or even enterprises. So yes, the time has come to move […]
Progress Kemp Loadmaster – Why use Load balancer in your organization?
One of the first questions most IT admins will ask at some point in their career is “Why should I use a Load Balancer?” The reason is simple – a load balancer ensures that client requests are routed efficiently between servers to deliver a consistent application experience. Users are not left staring at a blank […]
StarWind VSAN with new UI and deployment options
It has been a while since I haven’t deployed a StarWind VSAN appliance in the lab. The latest version has new UI which is much easier to configure the solution. The dashboard of the individual appliance allows you to add/remove and configure individual nodes participating in the cluster. While the over all deployment has not […]