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Nakivo Backup and Replication 9.2 with Office 365 Backup Now

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 14, 2020

Nakivo has releasing a new version of their flagship software Nakivo Backup And Replication 9.2 which brings long awaited functionality for Office 365 users. This release is coming up just after one month after the previous release, Nakivo 9.1, which had some great additions too. There was a tape support where LTO 3 and later […]

| Filed Under: Backup Tagged With: Nakivo Backup and Replication 9.2

Runecast Analyzer 4.1 and Center for Internet Security (CIS) analyzes your environment for any security risk according to CIS standards

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: May 12, 2020

The latest release of Runecast Analyzer 4.1 has been released recently and brought an interesting feature that allows you to run automated CIS Benchmarks. One might ask what is CIS Benchmarks? Those are industry-standard checks which are making sure that your infrastructure is secured against known security vulnerabilities. Runecast Analyzer 4.1 and Center for Internet […]

| Filed Under: Cloud, Server Virtualization, Tips Tagged With: Runecast Analyzer 4.1

Chocolatey GUI as a front-end deployment and management option

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 6, 2020

We wrote about Chocolatey package manager in the past and if you’re not a regular reader of this blog, you should definitely check it out. Chocolatey is a cool package manager for Windows. It is built on the NuGet infrastructure and it uses PowerShell. It basically delivers packages from online distributions onto your desktops. Today […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff Tagged With: Chocolatey gui

VMware Per-CPU Pricing going up to x2 for CPUs with over 32 cores

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 5, 2020

This is information which came out as a bomb yesterday and we have already tweeted that. VMwarePer-CPU pricing is going up. Imagine that you want to go for a new infrastructure VMware and that you like the new AMD EPYC™ 7742 CPUs from AMD which has 64 cores. Well, you just find out that you’d […]

| Filed Under: Cloud, Server Virtualization

Log-structured Write-Back Cache (LSWBC) by StarWind – How it Works?

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: April 26, 2025

StarWind Log-structured Write-Back Cache

StarWind software is constantly working on improving its flagship product StarWind Virtual SAN. During the development cycle, they have experimented with LSFS, but finally preferred LSWBC which optimizes small random writes and is able to use RAM and an SSD pool to boost performance, and additionally eliminate completely the need for full-resync after a node […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: Log-structured Write-Back Cache, StarWind VSAN

Free Physical and Virtual Machine (VM) converter utilities you have to keep

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 4, 2022

StarWind V2V Converter for PV2 and V2V

VM (V2V) or Physical to Virtual (P2V) conversion isn’t something new. Since virtualization has started there were tools that were used for one or the other. Today’s post will list three principal tools that are still updated (kind of) and developed to maintain the possibility of conversion tasks. Note that while many admins have already […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff, Server Virtualization, Tips Tagged With: P2V, StarWind V2V, Starwind V2V Converter Free Tool, V2V

FreeNAS 11.3 New Release

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: January 30, 2020

Popular storage operating system (OS) that many administrators are using within their IT environment for storage, has released a new update. FreeNAS 11.3 has quite a few new improvements which are worth to look at. The OS uses FreeBSD distro and  ZFS as a file system allowing you to set up snapshots and replication to […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff, Home Lab, Server Virtualization, Tips Tagged With: FreeNAS 11.3

Iperius Backup 6.5.1: Incremental Replication between ESXi Free Hosts

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: January 30, 2020

Iperius Backup for VMware ESXi and vSphere, as well as Microsoft Hyper-V, is a product that isn’t much known within the virtualization community. We have written about this solution a while back and we have also done a full review here. The product can backup and replicate Virtual machines (VMs) for VMware ESXi (including ESXi […]

| Filed Under: Backup Tagged With: Iperius Backup

How to disable VMware ESXi complex passwords and why you should not do it

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: January 25, 2020

VMware ESXi hypervisor has a default password complexity turned on. It is to restrict admins using week passwords which is good. The ESXi password restrictions are set by the Linux PAM module pam_passwdqc, because VMware ESXi uses that module within the hypervisor. In this post, we will recap how to disable VMware ESXi complex passwords. […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff, How To Tagged With: disable VMware ESXi complex password, disable VMware ESXi complex passwords

Nakivo Backup And Replication 9.1 Released – Download Your Trial

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: November 9, 2022

Nakivo Backup and Replication 9.1 is GA. You can download a free trial here. The product has yet again evolved and new features have been added. We have recently written about the 9.1 Beta here. As any backup product out there, Nakivo keeps adding new functions that are useful for data center administrators. One of […]

| Filed Under: Backup Tagged With: Nakivo Backup and Replication 9.1

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