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Vitalii Feshchenko
  • Vitalii Feshchenko
  • February 24, 2025

Configuring ESXi Firewall Rules: Methods, Tips & Best Practices

As the title is speaking for itself, it is quite clear that today, I am going to discuss various methods to open and close firewall ports on ESXi hosts. It is useless to consider whether configuring firewall rules is harmful or not since every admin once in a while meets the necessity of fine-tuning network to distribute access rights. So, you ought to know all the tools at your disposal one way or another.
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Vladyslav Savchenko
  • Vladyslav Savchenko
  • February 22, 2025

Setting up StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN) as Hardened Repository for Veeam B&R

Worried about keeping your business data safe from ransomware and other threats? Discover how StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN) can fortify your backup strategy as a hardened repository for Veeam Backup & Replication (B&R).
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Vitalii Feshchenko
  • Vitalii Feshchenko
  • February 21, 2025

VMware ESXi Disk Modes: A Deep Dive into Dependent vs. Independent

Every admin knows a few tricks to find a short way when testing your VMs. Some of them are neat, and some aren’t, such as snapshots. Disk Mode in VMware ESXI allows you to replace this technology with a safe alternative!
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Vladyslav Savchenko
  • Vladyslav Savchenko
  • February 20, 2025

Veeam Backup for Proxmox vs Proxmox Backup Server: A Detailed Comparison

Choosing the right backup solution for Proxmox VE? Should you stick with Proxmox Backup Server or go with Veeam? We compare both options in terms of features, performance, ease of use, and cost in our latest article to help you decide.
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Brandon Lee
  • Brandon Lee
  • February 19, 2025

Top Windows Subsystem for Linux Tweaks

Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) provides great flexibility, but with a few optimizations, you can make it even more efficient. Check out the full guide with practical tweaks.
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Vladyslav Savchenko
  • Vladyslav Savchenko
  • February 19, 2025

StarWind V2V Converter Overview (Part 1): Converting VMs to and from Oracle VirtualBox

Efficiently migrate VMs between hypervisors with StarWind V2V Converter. This tool simplifies VM conversions, supporting multiple platforms and providing universal compatibility.
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Paolo Valsecchi
  • Paolo Valsecchi
  • February 18, 2025

Migration from VMware to Proxmox with Veeam

VMware ’s new licensing model has many IT teams looking for alternatives. Proxmox VE is a solid choice, and Veeam Backup & Replication 12.2 simplifies the migration process. Check out our latest full migration guide.
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Vitalii Feshchenko
  • Vitalii Feshchenko
  • February 17, 2025

Adding an AWS Storage Gateway iSCSI Target to a VMware ESXi Cluster

Last year, my colleague asked me for advice. He couldn’t add an iSCSI target, provided by AWS Storage Gateway, on VMware ESXi cluster. So, initially, this material was intended to serve as a manual. However, since I got a similar question once more just recently, I realized that this topic could be interesting to the others as well, which is why I decided to share this guide, hoping it will be useful.
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Vitalii Feshchenko
  • Vitalii Feshchenko
  • February 17, 2025

vSphere Performance: The No-Nonsense Troubleshooting Guide

As any other admin, you know that the VMs eventually start to suffer from disruptions, performance problems, or simply stop responding. That is a fact of life, unfortunately. Chances are, as a virtualization engineer, you’ve probably already met these problems at least once. And since the virtualized environment is quite a complicated system, there can be too many different reasons or factors that impact poor VM performance. Trying to find out what is wrong can take a lot of your time.
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