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All VMware Products Promo Black Friday

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: April 26, 2025

There are significant savings that can be made when looking for the purchase of VMware software during the upcoming Black Friday period Nov 24th to Dec 3rd. If you want to save 15, 30 or even 40% just check out the different deals. Basically, most of the VMware products. Workstation and Fusion are at 30% off, […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization

Zerto Virtual Replication 9 adds Immutability and Instant Restore from long-term retention repository

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: November 26, 2021

Zerto 9 added more features for resiliency, security, and automated VM protection. The Zerto Virtual Replication software is maturing but still innovating to integrate more public cloud offerings and enhance the backup capabilities of the product. Version 9 of Zerto also introduces a possibility to backup your VMs to any cost-effective S3 compatible storage, whether […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: Zerto 9

How to configure automatic storage rescan in StarWind VSAN for VMware vSphere

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: November 24, 2021

StarWind Virtual SAN

After deploying StarWind VSAN for VMware vSphere, whether you do that for testing or for another deployment, you have to make sure that the shared StarWind datastore is mounted automatically. For this, it’s wise to follow StarWind’s help pages and configure automatic storage rescan within the StarWind VM. StarWind recommends creating a dedicated user on […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: automatic storage rescan

Ultimate Guide to ZFS – Webinar Series from StarWind

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: November 23, 2021

One of our partners, StarWind software, is organizing a series of webinar about ZFS. As you know ZFS file system is a very robust file system used in Linux distros, NAS devices or virtual appliances. It supports many storage protocols, snapshots and has very good resiliency. You can register for the upcoming webinar File Server […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: Ultimate Guide to ZFS

vSphere Upgrades easier now with Runecast

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: November 28, 2021

Runecast’s latest feature allows vSphere admins to upgrade their infrastructure with more visibility before the upgrade happens. In fact, you can simulate the version of vSphere to which they want to upgrade and see which server and individual components would not be compatible. An ESXi upgrade simulation works along with the VMware automated compatibility check. […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: vSphere Upgrades easier

HostColor Private Cloud better than AWS or Azure

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: April 26, 2025

All my readers know that my blog runs on Hostcolor. Many of them perhaps thinking of going AWS or Azure for their blogs, or their client’s blogs. However, private Cloud-based VMware ESXi service providers are also worth mentioning and are often a better choice because simpler and more cost-effective. The SMB admin has more often […]

| Filed Under: Cloud, Featured, Server Virtualization Tagged With: Hostcoloer private cloud

StarWind SAN VSAN can be Two-way or Three-way setup

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: November 3, 2021

Highly available storage is one of the challenges that IT has to face all the time. StarWind VSAN is a software storage solution that is very flexible and gives us the opportunity to configure it the way you need. It has a built-in high availability (HA) so no matter if your underlying storage node fails, […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: StarWind VSAN

VMware ESXi 7.0 U3a update released

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: April 26, 2025

There is a new patch update ESXi 7.0 U3a that has been released by VMware. This patch fixes a PSOD issue that had been reported after the release of the original U3. The release notes can be found here. Update: As you may be aware, we have identified critical issues following the vSphere 7.0 U3 […]

| Filed Under: Free Stuff, How To, Server Virtualization, Tips Tagged With: ESXi 7.0 U3a

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

Latest Build of StarWind VSAN for VMware Released

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: October 19, 2021

StarWind Virtual SAN

StarWind Software has just released a new version of their flagship software StarWind VSAN for VMware. OVF Version 20211012 Version V8 (build 14338). In case you don’t know StarWind, you’re missing out as it is one of the most cost-effective solutions for ROBO, where you only need 2 nodes to create a highly available solution. […]

| Filed Under: Server Virtualization Tagged With: StarWind VSAN for VMware

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