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Heartbeat vs Node Majority StarWind VSAN Failover Strategy

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: June 23, 2025

High availability (HA) protected workloads is something we want in production. Knowing that our workload will continue to be available (restarted) on remaining node is something we want to have. HA is not Fault tolerance so our workload will experience small downtime, before being restarted on another node in a cluster, but that’s something we […]

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Vulnerability in your VMs – VMware Tools Update

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: May 19, 2025

Recent news about vulnerabilities siting quietly inside our VMware VMs is rather worrying. What if, attacker was going to hack our infrastructure from inside of our VMs? And what if not only Windows VMs, but also Linux VMs were affected? VMware Tools Update is important as your ESXi patch update. This vulnerability is labeled as […]

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FREE version of StarWind VSAN vs Trial of Full version

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: May 27, 2025

StarWind software has a free version of their product VSAN. This is not new. However, many people ignore that the free version is not the same as the trial version (30 days trial). In this post we’ll point out some of the differences between the Trial version of StarWind VSAN and the Lifetime FREE version. […]

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Commvault’s Innovations at RSA Conference 2025 San Francisco

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: April 29, 2025

Commvault is attending a RSA Conference 2025 in San Francisco this week and what they are showing is very innovative. For those of you who does not know anything about this conference, you might wander what to expect? In fact, the same way I’ve been attending VMworld (or VMware Explore) for virtualization during the last […]

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No more FREE licenses of VMware vSphere for vExperts – What’s your options?

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: March 25, 2025

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 […]

| Filed Under: Cloud, Featured, Home Lab 6 Comments

StarWind V2V Converter Now has CLI

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: March 14, 2025

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 […]

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NAKIVO Backup and Replication 11.0.1 Now Supports Additional Languages and Offers Flexible Deployment Options

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: January 20, 2025

Nakivo has recently announced exciting updates to its NAKIVO Backup & Replication solution. The latest version, v11.0.1, now supports additional languages, including French, German, Italian, Polish, and Chinese, in addition to full support for English and Spanish. This enhancement aims to provide a more personalized data protection experience by eliminating language barriers and reducing training […]

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Windows Server 2025 best new additions and features

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: December 9, 2024

Microsoft  has quietly released Windows Server 2025 recently. The tech preview of the product has been around since a long time and we have tested it couple of months ago. Since then many new things has changed but overall, the product has matured over the years. In this post we’ll explore some of the cool […]

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Veeam Data Platform – Upgrade to the latest 12.3 now

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: December 4, 2024

Veeam has just released their latest version of their flagship product – Veeam Data Platform 12.3. It is a big upgrade with many new features that had been added and improved, so In order to stay up-to-date with your IT environment, it’s necessary to upgrade your Veeam environment. Version 12.3 of Veeam Backup and Replication […]

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Commvault at AWS re:Invent 2024: Innovating Cloud Resilience and Data Protection

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: December 3, 2024

AWS re:Invent is happening this week and we can expect to hear lots of news and announcements coming from the event. This year the conference is being held from December 2-6, 2024, across five different venues on the Las Vegas Strip: The Venetian, Wynn, Caesars Forum, MGM Grand, and Mandalay Bay. Commvault as one of […]

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