If you’re fighting ransomware or sweating over disaster recovery, Zerto 10 U7 (part of HPE’s Zerto platform) is worth a look.

XorMon Next Generation (NG), the open-source monitoring from Xorux, has taken another step forward with its latest release, ...

As many SMBs and enterprises are escaping VMware or Hyper-V environments in to Open source virtual environments such as Proxmox VE, the backup vendors follows. That’s why Nakivo keeps pushing Proxmox ...

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 ...

Recent news about vulnerabilities siting quietly inside our VMware VMs is rather worrying. What if, attacker was going to ...

Several folks asked me recently What is VMware Platform Service Controller. I've published few guides on VMware vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA), the migration of vCenter to VCSA or in-place migration ...

There is the time for upgrades and patches, again. Yes, again and again. New vulnerabilities that are discovered needs to be patched as soon as possible. Bugs that has been discovered, needs to be ...

While it's fairly simple to take the defaults, for VM hardware components, It's not always the best ones when it comes to performance. In this post, we will explore the different possibilities to give ...

Have you ever wondered what is Veeam backup proxy? Veeam proxy is one of the main components of Veeam Backup and replication. In small environments when installation is “All-In-one” machine, the Veeam ...

This post is a quick recap of different ways to change a hostname of an ESXi host. There are different ways we work and different tools we use. Not every time we have the chance to use the tools we ...

VMware has done a great job with this new VCSA 6.5 appliance. You have already seen my lab deployment of VCSA 6.5 by using VMware Workstation – just to test the workflow, but today we'll do another ...

VMware is releasing patches on regular basis, but those aren't always available within the latest installation ISO file (at least not for “free” customers). The idea is to build a new VMware ESXi ISO ...