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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Some basic CLI commands for configuring the network, vSwitches and portgroups from command line.. This is not an exhausted list of commands, just few of them. While working through putty session you ...

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 ...

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 ...