A couple of months ago I installed a lab (a nested virtual lab running under VMware Workstation) with XCP-NG and Xen Orchestra. This virtualization ...

Hey folks, Vladan here from ESX Virtualization. If you’ve been following my blog since way back in 2008 (yeah, we’re that old-school), you know I love diving into lightweight, no-nonsense tools that ...

With DataCore Puls8 officially launched on January 26, 2026 (GA release notes dated January 21, 2026), the obvious question ...

If you’re like me and have spent years wrestling with traditional three-tier infrastructure in small-to-medium businesses or remote office/branch office ...

If you've been following my blog over the years, you know I write a lot about virtualisation and data protection, and also about recovery, cyber resilience, and especially how these things play out in ...

VMware vFlash Read Cache was introduced in vSphere 5.5 and continue to be present in vSphere 6.x. It allows to leverage local SSD in each host as a cache. Note that no extra VIBs need to be installed ...

Hello everyone, Vladan here. If you've been following my blog over the years, you know I've spent countless hours breaking down virtualization platforms. I invested a lot of time into VMware because ...

VMware vSphere 7 has been announced. Make sure to check our vSphere 7.0 WordPress page where we centralize all the articles about vSphere 7. vCenter Server 7 Multihoming capability means that you will ...

ESXi host client is bundled with VMware Free ESXi Hypervisor. While we still have the possibility to manage single host via traditional vSphere Client (Windows based), it becomes clear that sooner or ...

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 ...

Some basic CLI commands for configuring the network, vSwitches and portgroups from command line.. This is not an exhausted list of commands, just few of them. While working through putty session you ...

After receiving an interesting mail from Veeam forum digest, I thought it's a good idea to share the info. It's about using an external PG Db optimizer that allows you to optimize your PG servers. In ...