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 ...

Thinking about HCI? G2, an independent tech solutions peer review platform, has published its Winter 2023 Reports on Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) Solutions.

Broadcom has dropped the latest update for VMware ESXi 8.0, specifically Update 3i with build number 25205845. If you're running vSphere 8 environments, whether standalone hosts or managed clusters ...

I’m blogging about Nakivo’s product since their inception. My first blog post about the product was around 2013! Nakivo Backup & Replication continues to stand out as a robust, reliable solution for ...

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 ...

Managing virtualization, servers, storage, and backups can be a real headache with scattered tools and endless dashboards. That's why I've been a fan of XorMon for years—it's the one-stop solution ...

I was tinkering in my lab recently, and installing (or trying to) Xen Orchestra, whcih is a VMware vCenter server alternative as a management of XCP-NG hypervisors. I have already reported about ...

One of the latest news from Windows Server 2025 dev is probbably the Native NVMe support. I was quite a suprised that this wasn't already in, when this server software went out. But anyways. What does ...

Today I want to talk about Commvault and what they are showing at AWS re:Invent 2025 (December 1-5 in Las Vegas). If you follow my blog, you will know that I already wrote a big post about their new ...

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 ...

I've been covering VMware's technology for over a decade now – from the glory days of ESX to the multi-cloud environments we're in today. There is a new announcement around VMUG called VMUG Connect ...