ESX Virtualization

VMware vSphere Express for Essential Virtualization – ESXi 9 and vCenter 9 with No vSAN and DRS

Vladan SEGET — Thu, 05 Nov 2026 08:37:13 +0000

There is a new offering from VMware called vSphere Express. I think you've heard about it since it's been spread through the media during couple of days. It seems that they're trying to hold some of the SMBs (if they haven't left already). Even if in the past Broadcom said, that there is no place […]

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StarWind VTL: Building a Solid, Immutable Backup Strategy in the Ransomware Era

Vladan SEGET — Mon, 02 Nov 2026 06:22:06 +0000

Ransomware is no longer a distant threat — it is a daily reality for backup administrators. Attackers have learned that encrypting production data is only half the job. The real leverage comes from destroying or encrypting the recovery points themselves. If your backups are mutable, reachable over the same network, or sitting on a simple […]

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Most Popular posts of 2026

Vladan SEGET — Sat, 31 Oct 2026 09:38:06 +0000

This blog has been running since 2008, and there is a real person behind it. A real professional, not some AI agent. I occasionally use AI for graphics to make things a bit easier for me so that you, my readers, can enjoy a better visual experience while reading the posts. That’s pretty much it. […]

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Veeam 100 Summit Lisbon 2026 – A New Location, Same Great Energy

Vladan SEGET — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 14:42:41 +0000

Here we are again – this time in beautiful Lisbon for the Veeam 100 Summit 2026. After years of Prague (with that special Czech connection for me) and one edition in Berlin, Veeam chose a brand-new location on the Atlantic coast. Michael Cade already tweeted about it being a first for him, and I completely […]

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XorMon 2.4.0 released – What’s New and Why You Should Care

Vladan SEGET — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 06:03:22 +0000

Monitoring of heterogeneous environments has always been difficult – or at least it was before tools like XorMon came along. If you manage VMware, Nutanix, IBM Power, storage from several vendors, Oracle databases, LAN/SAN, backups and more, you know the pain of jumping between five different consoles. XorMon from Xorux solves that by putting everything […]

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ZSvirt.io – Open-Source KVM Virtualization That Actually Feels Enterprise (and Deploys in Minutes)

Vladan SEGET — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 08:41:01 +0000

Another VMware alternative dropped into the open-source world in August 2026, and this one is worth a serious look. In fact, ZSvirt (zsvirt.io / GitHub: ZSvirt/zsvirt) is the community edition of ZStack’s production-hardened ZSphere engine, released under GPL-3.0 with no limits on hosts, VMs, or features for production use. It manages KVM-based infrastructure through a […]

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Tiny11 Builder WinUI 0.1.1 is out – and it finally has a proper modern UI

Vladan SEGET — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 12:01:26 +0000

Hey folks, Vladan here from ESX Virtualization. If you’ve been reading the blog for a while you already know I’m always on the lookout for ways to keep Windows VMs small, in the lab. Back in November 2023 I wrote about the original Tiny11 project and how useful a stripped-down Windows 11 can be when […]

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StarWind Under DataCore: How the Acquisition Strengthens HCI for Edge, ROBO, and Existing Users

Vladan SEGET — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 09:49:29 +0000

DataCore acquired StarWind Software in May 2025. For many of us who have followed StarWind Virtual SAN, their HCI appliances, Virtual Tape Library (VTL), and related tools over the years, the natural questions were immediate: What happens to the products we rely on? How do they fit into DataCore’s broader portfolio? And does this change […]

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NAKIVO Backup & Replication v11.2.2: Full vSphere 9.1 + Proxmox VE 9.1/9.2 Support (and the Practical Bits That Matter)

Vladan SEGET — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 09:55:45 +0000

Hey folks, Vladan here. If you follow my blog for a long time, you already know I keep a close eye on backup tools that stay current with the hypervisors we actually run — VMware, Proxmox, mixed environments, physical boxes, NAS appliances. NAKIVO has been on that list for years because it stays lean, agentless […]

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TMOG Task Manager – The Original Creator of Windows Task Manager Is Back With Something Better

Vladan SEGET — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 14:22:44 +0000

Today's freebie is from a guy who 30 years ago designed the original Windows Task manager. If you’ve ever hit Ctrl+Shift+Esc on a Windows box and stared at the Task Manager wondering what’s eating your CPU or RAM, you’ve used Dave Plummer’s work. The same guy who wrote the original Windows Task Manager back in […]

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