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 ...

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: 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 ...

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: 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 ...

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 ...

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: 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 ...

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 ...

Intestead of almost 52 GB, now it takes only 13 GB… huge saving with a mining performance impact during normal running. I’ve perform the compression live with all the Veeam services running… not the ...

Debian like distributions have a nice option to manage distribution upgrade (apt-get dist-upgrade), not always available on RedHat like distributions… in-place upgrade are still possible, but maybe ...