Managing servers, storage, and networks can feel overhelming. Too many tools, too many dashboards. Xormon has been my go-to ...

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 ...

As many SMBs and enterprises are escaping VMware or Hyper-V environments in to Open source virtual environments such as ...

If you are like me, working in IT for small businesses (SMBs), you probably feel the pain of rising costs from big vendors like VMware or Microsoft ...

Hello everyone, Vladan here from ESX Virtualization. If you've been following my blog, you know I've been diving deep into ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Mount VMFS Datastore manually is sometimes necessary when working with DR plans. A volume that isn't automatically mounted on the other side has to be mounted manually. Normaly SRM takes care of it.

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 ...