If you have managed on-premises Exchange environments for any length of time, you have almost certainly run into situations ...

Broadcom has released VMware Workstation Pro 26H1u1 (build 25688693) on 03 September 2026. This is a maintenance update focused on security patches and a handful of bug fixes. If you run Workstation ...

Lost important files from a virtual machine and are not sure how to get them back? Virtual disk recovery may seem complicated ...

The latest update of our favorite desktop virtualization software can now be installed without even entering any serial number. That's what the latest release news of VMware Workstation says. After ...

This post will detail and explains some basic concept about ESXi memory reclamation technique called ballooning. What is VMware Memory Ballooning is the name of today's post. We'll put it again in our ...

Today in my lab after launching VMware Workstation (v17) I had this update window pop-up, but this time things were different. After Broadcom acquisition, the product is free for personal use as you ...

Today is an exciting day for Veeam users worldwide. Veeam Backup & Replication 13.1 (part of the Veeam Data Platform) became generally available on July 29, 2026. This point release builds directly on ...

It has been a while since I haven't deployed a StarWind VSAN appliance in the lab. The latest version has new UI which is much easier to configure the solution. The dashboard of the individual ...

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 ...

Tiny Linux VM OVA – this is just a note for me, but I thought it might be useful for other users. When working in a homelab and testing, you often need small VMs with a low amount of RAM configured.

Well, not quite likely, but yes, VMware is developing a system that it called ESXi Live Patching. What is it? Its basically a way to patch the ESXi and install critical fixes and security patches to ...