Lately, the VMware landscape has felt like a rollercoaster – first the Broadcom acquisition shakes things up, then licensing costs skyrocket, and suddenly, everyone's asking: “Is it time to jump ship?

What are all those shortcuts Vladan? Hey everyone and welcome to my new blog post about alternative virtualization platforms. Yes, Free VMware has come to an end and millions of ESXi FREE users are ...

This is an expected news (by me at least), and it is quite cool tbh. Veeam started a closed beta for integration another hypervisor platform – XCP-NG! The news came out from Vates.tech blog ...

If you’re small business, or someone who think that VMware is not for you any more, and thinking of leaving VMware, Read on. You might be testing several virtualization platforms as prove of concept ...

With the recent release of Veeam Backup & Replication v13 in November 2025, the backup world has seen some exciting advancements in security, ...

We're at the end of 2025, almost. I'd like to recap what I wrote and which were the posts that got the most "success" during 2025. Which posts got the ...

The thing is that this message saying that Client Integration Plug-in must be installed to enable OVF functionality is pretty showstopper as it prevents you to deploy OVF file via web browser. This ...

VMware has released VMware vSphere 6.0 Update 1b today. This is a maintenance release mostly but new features has been added as well. One of the new features is that with this version vCenter sever ...

This post is a quick recap of different ways to change a hostname of an ESXi host. There are different ways we work and different tools we use. Not every time we have the chance to use the tools we ...

Many of our readers already know this FREE tool called StarWind V2V Converter (P2V Migrator), however not well known for all its capabilities. StarWind V2V Converter is a free-to-download tool that ...

VMware vSphere 7 has been announced. Make sure to check our vSphere 7.0 WordPress page where we centralize all the articles about vSphere 7. vCenter Server 7 Multihoming capability means that you will ...

Exchange database may dismount after reboot if the logs were not committed to the database, low storage, corrupt logs or database, etc. In such a case, the database ...