Over the years, I've covered countless tools that make our lives as virtualization admins easier, especially when it comes to ...

Bare metal restore with Veeam from a recovery partition is a method to avoid using USB media by installing the Veeam Recovery Media directly onto a dedicated partition on the server's internal drive.

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 ...

If you have been running Windows 11 for any length of time, you already know the story. The OS arrives packed with telemetry, pre-installed apps you will never use, aggressive advertising, and a ...

If you’re a virtualization enthusiast like me, you’ve probably spent the last couple of years watching VMware customers scramble for alternatives after the Broadcom acquisition turned licensing into a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Welcome back to our VMware Certified Professional – VMware vSphere Foundation Administrator (2V0-16.25) study guide series! This section is part of the upcoming VCP-VVF Study Guide Page, which will be ...

If you’re a datacenter admin or architect still juggling VMware ESXi, Microsoft Hyper-V, Proxmox, oVirt, or even Oracle VirtualBox workloads – or if you’re moving stuff to/from Azure and AWS – you ...

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 — ...

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 ...