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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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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 […]

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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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Veeam Clickable Demos: Revolutionizing Technical Learning and Client Engagement

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: November 28, 2024

When you need to show a feature or particular screen of Veeam product to potential new client and don’t have the product installed on your laptop, and the VPN to your lab is not operational? What to do? I met someone during Veeam100 Summit in Berlin and that person has solved this problem! In fact, […]

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XorMon SAN Topology and Cool Interactive New Graph Features

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: November 21, 2024

We have already talked about XorMon NG software, which is a consolidated 3-in-1 tool previously called STOR2RRD, that had during long period of time 3 different tools inside: XorMon Original, LPAR2RRD, and STOR2RRD. So the XorMon NG (Note: NG stands for New Generation) is useful to monitor your infrastructure. XorMon NG is a free, open-source […]

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Major Release – Nakivo Backup and Replication v11 – VMware EXPLORE 2024

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: November 5, 2024

Nakivo is one of the backup vendors out there which were very active in the past, pushing update after update. Now however their fast update cycles have slowed down a bit for couple of months, to bring a single major release which went out today. Nakivo Backup and Replication v11 is GA today and you […]

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Harden Your Key Infrastructure Components and Use Veeam Best Practices from EMEA Veeam Solutions Architects

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: October 22, 2024

If you’re IT administrator and using Veeam within your infrastructure, you might be interested in this website that gives you only the essentials you need to successfully manage your Veeam backup infrastructure. There is many useful tools and Veeam Best Practices you can use created by EMEA Veeam Solutions Architects. Tools such as Magic Ports, […]

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Two New VMware Certified Professional Certifications for VMware administrators: VCP-VVF and VCP-VCF

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: October 3, 2024

Admins willing to get certified with VMware now has a new options to do so. There are two new certifications, that has been added to the VMware certification portal. VCP-VVF and VCP-VCF. You already imagine what those shortcuts are: VCP-VVF (VMware Certified Professional – vSphere Foundation Administrator) and the VCP-VCF (VMware Certified Professional –  VMware […]

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Veeam Backup and Replication for Proxmox Virtual Environment (VE) – Yes Since Veeam 12.2

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: September 30, 2024

Proxmox VE are becoming more and more popular due to unpopularity of VMware/Broadcom shifts in Licensing and price increase.  That’s the fact. As a result, more and more companies and admins switching to alternative hypervisors such as Proxmox, XCP-ng or Hyper-V. (Yes perhaps even Hyper-V will shine soon too as a new release is expected […]

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Patching ESXi Without Reboot – ESXi Live Patch – Yes, since ESXi 8.0 U3

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: September 27, 2024

Well, not quite likely, but yes, VMware is developing a system that it called ESXi Live Patching. What is it? Its basically a way to patch the ESXi and install critical fixes and security patches to the ESXi host without having to reboot the host. Remember that vSphere has already offers some other speed-ups when […]

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