When using Veeam with a deduplicating storage system, a best practice can be to have a non-duplicating storage system as the ...

One of the big advantages of the virtual appliance version of VMware vCenter (vCSA) is the ability to update both the OS components and the VMware parts with a simple menu. Just use the administrative ...

With the recenter release of Rocky Linux 10.0, could be interesting talk about the product life cycle and for how many years the previous versions are still supported. Of course, Rocky Linux follows ...

There are different reason where you can you loose or corrupt your partition table of your VMFS volumes: resignature from another system (for example the backup server, if connected in SAN mode), a ...

Note that, like the dual redundant SD card, the BOSS card does need that you power-off the host in order to replace a device. Not as beauty like a dual hot-swap hard disks solution, but reasonable for ...

Reading Time: 3 minutes Increase a virtual machine disk size it’s so easy, on almost all hypervisor: just click and increase the space on the virtual disk. But it’s just one part of the game, the ...

VMware Workstation 14 it’s a great product and adds several features from ESXi 6.5 and 6.7 (like NVMe support). But drops too many CPU from its compatibility list and this means less support for old ...

In ESXi the partitions schema is automatically defined by the installation process and there is no way to modify it (you can only choose where install the hypervisor). There is a great post from ...

Veeam Backup & Replication does not have a native integration with “entry-level” NAS appliance, but there are some different options if you want to configure a Veeam repository on a NAS hardware ...

Reading Time: 2 minutes VMware vSphere ships with many metrics and properties. If we take object by object, and document metrics by metrics, it will be both dry and theoretical. You will be ...

Note: seems that ESXi free is not receiving updates and that does not exist any ESXi 9.0 free! One year ago, Broadcom killed the Free vSphere Hypervisor, but now, with the last VMware ESXi 8.0 Update ...

If you are using Veeam Backup & Replication (but also other backup solution) you can perform both backup and replication with the same tool. But with latest version of vSphere you can probably notice ...