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Veeam Backup and Replication Plug-in for XCP-NG Enters Public Beta: Powering Up Xen Hypervisor Backups

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: October 3, 2025

Hello everyone, Vladan here from ESX Virtualization. If you’ve been following my blog, you know I’ve been diving deep into the shifting sands of virtualization, especially as VMware’s licensing drama continues to push folks toward more affordable, open-source alternatives. Just a couple of weeks ago, I covered the closed beta for Veeam and XCP-ng integration […]

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Fortifying Your Backup Infrastructure Against Ransomware – StarWind VTL Best Practices

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: September 17, 2025

Ransomware-proof backup architectures are becoming the new standard. Your backup architecture and your backups are the hacker’s N°1 target because without your backups you’re most likely open to negotiate and pay the ransom. That’s the reality. I know it’s not that simple, but how about making the life more difficult for those hackers? How about […]

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Veeam and XCP-NG Closed Beta Started

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: August 29, 2025

This is an expected news (by me at least), and it is quite cool tbh. Veeam started a closed beta for integration another hypervisor platform – XCP-NG! The news came out from Vates.tech blog (Vates.tech is the XCP-NG creator/editor) by Olivier Lambert. Veeam after recently adding Proxmox hypervisor as supported platform, the next one on […]

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VCP-VVF Administrator Study Guide: Objective 2.2 – VMware Compute Fundamentals, Part 2: Configure a vSphere Cluster

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: September 19, 2025

Welcome back to our VMware Certified Professional – VMware vSphere Foundation Administrator (2V0-16.25) study guide series! This section is part of the upcoming VCP-VVF Study Guide Page, which will be released as a PDF when completed—check it out at our page VCP– VVF Administrator. We follow the official VMware Blueprint for the exam – VMware […]

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5 New VMware Certifications for VVF and VCF

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: September 14, 2025

Last year I have reported on two new VMware certificatons: VMware Certified Professional Certifications for VMware administrators: VCP-VVF and VCP-VCF. Those certifications are maintained, and other certifications were added to this recently and we’ll talk about it in this post. There is now 5 main VMware VCP certifications – VCP-VVF Support, VCP-VCF Administrator, VCP-VVF Support, VCP-VCF […]

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Exploring Zerto Virtual Replication: Understanding Protection Groups and Snapshot-Free Technology

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: August 20, 2025

If you you are reading our blog for the first time or you are a regular reader, you’ve likely heard of Zerto Virtual Replication, which is now part of the HPE portfolio following its acquisition. Zerto has long been a game-changer in the world of data protection and recovery, offering a hypervisor-based replication solution that […]

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Initial Deployment of Veeam Backup and Replication v13 (BETA 2) as a VM from ISO

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: August 12, 2025

In this post, I’ll show you how to deploy Veeam Backup and Replication v13 (BETA 2) as a VM within your ESXi/vSphere Environment. This beta 2 is not public, but is accessible to the v100 members (Vanguards, Legends, MVPs) so we can play with it and report annomalies). It has much less “TBD” labels than […]

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What is Nakivo Transporter and how it can help you to scale your backup infrastructure

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: August 5, 2025

Hey, IT admins! If you’re running backups for VMware, Hyper-V, or even cloud workloads, you know the struggle of keeping performance smooth as your environment grows. Small setups with a handful of VMs are one thing, but what happens when you’re managing hundreds or thousands? That’s where NAKIVO Backup & Replication shines, and its Transporter […]

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VMware EXPLORE Las Vegas and VMware Explore on Tour

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: July 23, 2025

As you might already noticed, this year there is no VMware EXPLORE Europe, but only VMware Explore on Tour. The US Version of VMware EXPLORE (August 25 – 28, 2025) is maintained and you can register here (the Full Event price is $1,995, plus hotel nights and fly tickets…. so yes, unless your company can afford […]

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Microsoft MVP, VMUG Advantage, VMware vExpert, Nutanix NTC, and Veeam Vanguard – FREE NFR Starter Pack from Devolutions!

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: July 22, 2025

Yes, this is a very good news for all my Microsoft MVP, VMUG Advantage, VMware vExpert, Nutanix NTC, and Veeam Vanguard collegues and peers. A FREE NFR license of a bundle from Devolutions which allows you to use those those in your lab for FREE. The bundle, called Starter Pack, covers Four products and it is […]

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