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Tails – Your Private OS on USB Stick

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: March 24, 2025

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 […]

| Filed Under: Backup, Featured, Free Stuff, Home Lab, How To, Tips Tagged With: Private OS on USB Stick Leave a Comment

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 […]

| Filed Under: Cloud, Featured, How To, Reviews, Server Virtualization, Windows 11, Windows Server 2025 Tagged With: Windows Server 2025 Leave a Comment

Use FREE PGTune To Optimize PostgreSQL DBs – External PG Optimizer

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: September 16, 2024

After receiving an interesting mail from Veeam forum digest, I thought it’s a good idea to share the info. It’s about using an external PG Db optimizer that allows you to optimize your PG servers. In the case of Veeam, the user was able to solve a ticket by optimizing their PostgreSQL server. Note that […]

| Filed Under: Backup, Featured, Free Stuff, How To, Tips Tagged With: PGTune Leave a Comment

vSphere Configuration Profiles – How VMware vCenter Server 8.0 U2 Can Simplify and Optimize vSphere Infrastructure Administration

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 7, 2024

One of the key components of vSphere is VMware vCenter Server that allows you to manage multiple hosts connected, create clusters, datacenters and other objects, and also manage HA and vMotion operations. vCenter Server provide those various services and features that enable efficient and automated resource management and high availability for virtual machines, such as […]

| Filed Under: How To, Server Virtualization, Tips, Videos Tagged With: vSphere Configuration Profiles

Veeam 12.1 Four-Eyes Authorization – prevent accidental deletion of backups and other operations with two different persons only

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: December 21, 2023

Veeam 12.1 Four-Eyes is a configuration where by using a new control mechanism, you’ll be able to approve certain operations in Veeam Backup and Replication, but only with the help of another Veeam admin. In other words, for example, you want to delete some backups. With this feature activated, you’ll need another admin who will […]

| Filed Under: Backup, Cloud, How To, Server Virtualization, Tips Tagged With: Veeam 12.1 Four-Eyes Authorization

What is Veeam VHR and how to quickly install and create hardened repository?

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: June 6, 2023

During VeeamON 2023 in Miami Beach, a Veeam’s annual data protection conference, there was one session which I think it is worth my effort and blog about it, yes, for sure. There are many more great session to watch, and I think that most likely they’ll be up on online very soon. We had a […]

| Filed Under: Backup, Cloud, Featured, Free Stuff, Home Lab, How To Tagged With: What is Veeam VHR

ESXi 7.x to 8.x upgrade scenarios

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: January 6, 2023

This is the time to upgrade VMware ESXi 7.x to 8.x. No reason to tell you that you should fulfill certain requirements before the actual upgrade. Your environment with your backup/monitoring applications should be fully compatible with VMware ESXi 8.0 and vSphere 8.0. Your hardware should be on VMware HCL etc. You should also do […]

| Filed Under: Featured, Free Stuff, How To, Server Virtualization, Tips Tagged With: ESXi 7.x to 8.x upgrade scenarios

Veeam Bare Metal Recovery Without using USB Stick (TIP)

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: December 21, 2023

This tip comes from Nico Stein, a fellow Veeam Vanguard. I saw his presentation during Veeam Summit 100 in Prague, but I said to myself that I won’t publish it before I test it. And that’s why this post (and a video). In fact, it is good that I tested it by myself because EasyBCD […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff, How To, Server Virtualization, Tips, Videos, Windows Server 2022 Tagged With: Veeam Bare Metal Recovery Without using USB

A really FREE VPN that doesn’t suck

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 23, 2023

You want to surf anonymously on the Internet without spending a dime, but also avoiding seeing your data personal scattered in the nature? There is a solution that comes from Bright VPN.. As you know, there are many free VPN services, most offer advantages that aren’t really good, with rather slow speeds and a number of servers […]

| Filed Under: Cloud, Free Stuff, Home Lab, How To, Tips Tagged With: A really FREE VPN

How to Add a Physical Server and create a first backup with Nakivo Backup and Replication Software

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: November 14, 2022

Nakivo Backup and Replication is a software that helps to back up your data, and your VMs with databases, physical servers, SaaS applications (Microsoft 365), and workloads running in public clouds (Azure, Amazon EC2, and S3). You can also use Nakivo to backup file shares that is located on a physical server or in a […]

| Filed Under: Backup, Cloud, How To, Server Virtualization, Tips

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