As someone who has managed multiple on-premises Exchange environments over the years, I’ve dealt with my fair share of database corruption issues. Some are minor annoyances; others can disrupt ...
pfSense is one of the most powerful open-source firewalls and routers available. Running it inside VMware Workstation Pro 17 (the current 2025 version) is an excellent way to build a lab or even ...
VMware has just released 3 new VCAPs. Yes, those VMware Certified Advanced Professional. If you're not certified at all, or planning to, you should first chose one of the five base certifications for ...
If you're anything like me, you've probably spent countless hours tinkering with virtual machines, testing new OS builds, or just spinning up a quick lab environment to mess around with the latest ...
Hello everyone, Vladan here from ESX Virtualization. If you've been following my blog, you know I've been diving deep into the shifting sands of virtualization, especially as VMware's licensing drama ...
While vSphere 9 which is part of VMware VCF package has been releaed few months back, more and more dataprotection vendors are going support this new platform. This does not mean that majority of ...
Today, we'll have a look at a StarWind Virtual Backup Appliance (VBA) Free, a great tool from StarWind that brings enterprise-grade backup storage capabilities with immutability, to your home lab, ...
VMware has released recently their latest security patches for ESXi hypervisor. So ESXi 8.0 and ESXi 9.0 (don't know why they call it ESX now) needs to be patched. Whether you're using vSphere 8 with ...
We knew this gonna happen, and the truth is, everyone has expected that. A new VMware licensing PDF confirming the fact that there is no more vSphere 9 Standard and vSphere 9 Enterprise Plus versions ...
In case you were not aware, there is a completely FREE version of Virtual Backup Appliance from StarWind. The license to the software is perpetual and NOT time-bombed. The product can be used as a ...
Recent news about vulnerabilities siting quietly inside our VMware VMs is rather worrying. What if, attacker was going to hack our infrastructure from inside of our VMs? And what if not only Windows ...
New release of popular Veeam VHR ISO v2 made its apparition in the download section recently. Veeam VHR stands for Veeam Hardened Repository and it is basically a stripped down Linux distro which ...