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Upgrade Outdated hardware Infrastructure with Hyper Converged Appliance (HCA)?

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: March 15, 2022

This pow will describe some thoughts on today’s modern hardware and software and we’ll look at a possibility to Upgrade Outdated hardware Infrastructure with Hyper-Converged Appliance (HCA). When your aging hardware starts causing security problems because not able to run the latest software with all necessary security patches, it’s time to look at what ways […]

| Filed Under: Backup, Server Virtualization, Tips Tagged With: HCA, HCI, StarWind HCA

Protect 10 VMs for Free with Zerto

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 8, 2023

Today I’d like to talk about a Zerto which brings free protection for 10 VMs during a whole year. This is very good news for IT admins, enthusiasts, and VMware folks willing to protect their data. This not only allows you to do thorough testing within a POC environment but also gets a hand and learns this […]

| Filed Under: Backup, Free Stuff, Server Virtualization Tagged With: Zerto Free

VMware vCenter Converter Discontinued – what’s your options?

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: April 26, 2025

VMware Converter Setup

VMware has made unavailable vCenter Converter. Rest in peace, my friend. We spent a lot of time together, P2V ing some great physical servers…… Luckily, you can still download it left and right through file hosting and download services. What are the options of replacement for VMware Converter? So the options you have when willing […]

| Filed Under: Backup, Featured, Free Stuff Tagged With: VmWare Converter

How to upgrade VMware VCSA 7 Offline via patch ISO

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: April 26, 2025

There are many situations where your VMware vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) cannot be updated via the Internet directly. In some cases, your VCSA simply does not have direct access to the internet for security reasons or due to your company security policy. In those cases, VMware has two other methods which you can use to […]

| Filed Under: Backup, Cloud, Server Virtualization Tagged With: Offline VCSA ISO, upgrade VMware VCSA 7 Offline, VMware VCSA offline upgrade ISO

Install latest Free Veeam Agent on your desktop/laptop via Chocolatey

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: December 21, 2023

This is a small tutorial for people willing to protect their Laptop/desktop with a Veeam Free Agent for Microsoft Windows. The latest release of Veeam Agent for Windows is available as a Chocolatey package. Thanks to Maurice Kevenaar for the latest info. Maurice is a fellow Veeam Vanguard from Holland. He is working as a […]

| Filed Under: Backup, Server Virtualization Tagged With: Install latest Free Veeam Agent

StarWind VTL allows fight ransomware by setting up Virtual Tape Library stored on Disk drive

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: January 12, 2022

For those of you who follow this blog long enough, you know that DR, backup, and recovery are topics that we cover quite often. With the ransomware war happening every single day, nobody wants to lose the battle. But are we prepared enough? One of the ultimate arms that you can get is multiple backup […]

| Filed Under: Backup, Cloud, Free Stuff, Server Virtualization, Tips Tagged With: StarWind Virtual Tape Library, StarWind VTL

Nakivo Backup and Replication FREE Edition Features and Limitations

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: January 3, 2022

If you think that every small business has virtualization, you’re wrong. There is no point to virtualize 1-2 physical servers with 5-6 desktop computers. Better stay on physical. If additionally, you have to deal with Internet connexions problems and low bandwidth, you better keep the data on-site only. Also, while security and integrity of data […]

| Filed Under: Backup, Cloud, Free Stuff, Server Virtualization, Tips Tagged With: Nakivo FREE Edition Details

How to configure immutable backups with Nakivo

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: January 3, 2022

Nakivo has released another solid update of their flagship backup and replication product. We have reported don’t the public beta shared about a week or so, but now the GA Is now already available. The new release brings some innovative new features allowing you to monitor your resources without leaving the backup console and also […]

| Filed Under: Backup, Cloud Tagged With: configure immutable backups

Performance optimization for Backup servers with NVMe Storage

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: November 10, 2021

The importance of the speed of backup servers and the underlying backup repositories are playing a crucial role with not only the speed of the backup but also restore. It’s very good to have your backup jobs finishing in time within your backup window, have you ever tried to restore and what was the speed? […]

| Filed Under: Backup Tagged With: StarWind Backup Appliance

Nakivo Backup and Replication 10.5 Beta Release – Check it out

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: November 23, 2021

Nakivo has released public beta of their latest software, Nakivo Backup and Replication 10.5 Beta. The product has brought new VMware Monitoring to control the performance of VMware vSphere infrastructure and Hardened Virtual Appliance to protect backup data from ransomware encryption by storing backups in an immutable local repository. Quote from the product page: VMware […]

| Filed Under: Backup, Cloud, Server Virtualization Tagged With: Nakivo Backup 10.5

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