Today, we’ll have a look at a StarWind Virtual Backup Appliance (VBA) Free, a great tool from StarWind that brings enterprise-grade backup storage capabilities with immutability, to your home lab, small business, or proof-of-concept (PoC) environment. In this post, we’ll explore its deployment options across various platforms, zoom in on its immutable backup capabilities, and […]
Proxmox 9 (BETA 1) is out – What’s new?
Proxmox 9 BETA 1 is available since few days, and it is actually possible to upgrade from previous release. Not just clean install. I tried, and it works -:). But let’s start first with what the version 9 brings. First of all, the new BETA 1 is based on the upcoming Debian 13 “Trixie.” If […]
Microsoft MVP, VMUG Advantage, VMware vExpert, Nutanix NTC, and Veeam Vanguard – FREE NFR Starter Pack from Devolutions!
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 […]
ESXi 8.0/9.0 updates for standalone and vCenter managed hosts
VMware has released recently their latest security patches for ESXi hypervisor. So ESXi 8.0 and ESXi 9.0 (don’t know why they call it ESX now) needs to be patched. Whether you’re using vSphere 8 with vCenter, you’ll probably use vSphere Update Manager (Lifecycle manager). If you’re using VCF 9, then as well. However, if you’re […]
Dream Lab with PCIe Gen 5.0 M.2 NVMe Storage
There are many options when it comes to home lab. Recently I was starting to look for best lab setup with fast storage, and the choice obviously went to a mini PC format type of system, with PCIe M.2 Gen 5.0 slot for fast storage. The thing is, there are not a lot of them […]
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 […]
Friday Freebie – VMware Workstation and VMware Fusion
Hmm, we’re not really Friday, I know, but due to the luck of time, I wasn’t able to write about the news earlier. My friends knows that atm I’m on a very important personal project (will be finished in 1-2 months). But here we go – Friday Freebie and VMware Workstation and VMware Fusion! My […]
View PSTs without Outlook with this FREEWARE called Outlook Viewer
Friday Freebie is here! There are times that you wand to open a PST file and you don’t have Outlook configured and installed on your system. You might have some old PSTs that you have backed up and need to view what’s inside. In this post we’ll have a look at this FREEWARE called Outlook […]
Nutanix Community Edition
I feel this is the right timing for this. By VMware ending ESXi FREE Hypervisor, people running their home labs have no choice – switch to another FREE Hypervisor. We have detailed the announce – Best VMware Alternatives – ESXi FREE is DEAD – and we were not particularly happy with that, but hey, the […]
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