Bare metal restore with Veeam from a recovery partition is a method to avoid using USB media by installing the Veeam Recovery ...

Hey folks, Vladan here. If you've followed my blog for any length of time, you know I'm always keeping an eye on backup and recovery solutions that make life easier for virtualization admins — ...

If you’ve been reading ESX Virtualization since the VMware 3.x days (yeah, 2008–2024 archive still holds up), you know I’ve always had a soft spot for backup solutions that actually deliver real value ...

Usually it can hapend after restore operation. You restore an older VM and the Windows VM can't authenticate with the domain because the Trust Relationship between ...

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 ...

As you might already noticed, Microsoft has officially named their vNEXT Operating System for servers Windows Server 2025 and we took for a spin the installation of the new build here where we could ...

Over the years on this blog, I’ve documented dozens of Veeam upgrades, migrations, and best practices — from early versions running on vSphere 4.x all the way through v12 with its hardened ...

Veeam Backup & Replication (VBR) continues to set the pace in enterprise data resilience. With v13 having landed in November 2025 as a major architectural shift, Q1 2026 has delivered important ...

It has been a while since I haven't deployed a StarWind VSAN appliance in the lab. The latest version has new UI which is much easier to configure the solution. The dashboard of the individual ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...