Google Cloud Storage is scaling faster than most organisations can keep up with. Buckets routinely hold billions of objects ...

A couple of months ago I installed a lab (a nested virtual lab running under VMware Workstation) with XCP-NG and Xen Orchestra. This virtualization solution should be familiar to you, for those of you ...

I’ve been poking around Linux distros for years, and every now and then one pops up that feels refreshingly different without trying too hard. Voyager Live is exactly that. It’s not chasing the ...

With DataCore Puls8 officially launched on January 26, 2026 (GA release notes dated January 21, 2026), the obvious question for anyone running OpenEBS is whether the commercial version justifies a ...

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 ...

If you're like many ESXi users that are running bunch of ESXi hosts without vCenter Server in labs and testing environments, you might wonder how to patch/upgrade to the latest version. It's not that ...

One of the latest news from Windows Server 2025 dev is probbably the Native NVMe support. I was quite a suprised that this wasn't already in, when this server software went out. But anyways. What does ...

As someone who has managed multiple on-premises Exchange environments over the years, I’ve dealt with my fair share of database corruption issues. Some are minor annoyances; others can disrupt ...

Hello everyone, Vladan here. If you've been following my blog over the years, you know I've spent countless hours breaking down virtualization platforms. I invested a lot of time into VMware because ...

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 ...

I was tinkering in my lab recently, and installing (or trying to) Xen Orchestra, whcih is a VMware vCenter server alternative as a management of XCP-NG hypervisors. I have already reported about ...