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StarWind HCI Appliances: Storage Virtualization, Synchronous Replication, and Bulletproof Support

If you’re like me and have spent years wrestling with traditional three-tier infrastructure in small-to-medium businesses or remote office/branch office ...
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DataCore Puls8 vs OpenEBS: Comparison for Kubernetes Persistent Storage

With DataCore Puls8 officially launched on January 26, 2026 (GA release notes dated January 21, 2026), the obvious question ...
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SysInternals Suite: Still the #1 Must-Have Toolkit for Every Windows (and Now macOS/Linux) IT Admin in 2026

SysInternals Suite - This is very old (and very popular) utility suite from Mark Russinovich got an update recently where you'll find some new tools and ...
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VCP-VVF Administrator Study Guide: Objective 4.1 – VVF: Deploy and Configure : Identify the Components of a VVF Deployment – Part 1

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 ...
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VCP-VVF Administrator Study Guide: Objective 4.3 – VVF: Operate, Describe the Cluster Components and Deployment Options of VCF Operations

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 ...
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VCP-VVF Administrator Study Guide: Objective 2.3 – VMware Storage Fundamentals, Part 4: Configure vSAN Storage Policies

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 ...
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VCP-VVF Administrator Study Guide: Objective 2.3 – VMware Storage Fundamentals, Part 6: Describe the Purpose of vSAN Space Efficiency

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 Community Study Guide Page, ...
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Thinware SimpleVM – A Free-Forever Hypervisor Alternative for VMware Admins Tired of Broadcom’s Rising Costs

When I stumbled via Thinware and their upcoming SimpleVM virtualization platform, I thought that it might be just what's needed. A simple virtualization platform with central management (a vCenter ...
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ResOps in Action – Commvault’s Big Moves at RSAC 2026: Okta Support, Satori-Powered Risk Analysis, ThreatScan Evolution & Sentinel Automation

If you've been following my blog over the years, you know I write a lot about virtualisation and data protection, and also about recovery, cyber resilience, and especially how these things play out in ...
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Objective 2.2 – VMware Compute Fundamentals – Deploy and Configure VVF Compute Components (vCenter and ESXi)

Welcome back to our VMware Certified Professional – VMware vSphere Foundation Administrator (2V0-16.25) study guide series! Today, I'll be detailing this section: Objective 2.2 – VMware Compute ...
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VCP-VVF Administrator Study Guide: Objective 4.3 – VVF: Operate, Identify the Use Case for VCF Operations and VCF Operations for Logs

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 ...