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Managing VMware Licensing Costs Under Broadcom -- Core Counts, Tier Selection, Cluster Design, and Renewal Tactics

VMware Broadcom vSphere VCF VVF Core Licensing Cost Optimization PowerCLI VMware vSphere | Licensing | Audience: Infrastructure Architects, IT Directors, Procurement Broadcom's acquisition of VMware in late 2023

Securing Windows VM Guest Access on Hyper-V -- Least Privilege, Application Aware Backup, Generation 2 Security, and Network Exposure

Hyper-V Windows VMs Guest Security Least Privilege Application Aware Generation 2 Secure Boot Microsoft Hyper-V | Security | Audience: Hyper-V Administrators, Infrastructure Engineers This one came directly from a conversation

Veeam v13: SureBackup Verification for vSphere

Veeam v13 SureBackup Virtual Lab Application Group vSphere Recovery Verification Veeam v13 Series | Component: VBR v13, vSphere | Audience: Hands-on Sysadmins, Enterprise Architects SureBackup is Veeam's answer

Building a Hardened BaaS and DRaaS Stack with Veeam Cloud Connect v13

Veeam Cloud Connect v13 - Service Provider Architecture Veeam v13 BaaS DRaaS VSPC v9 Hardened Repository S3 Object Lock Greenfield Building a Veeam Cloud Connect BaaS and DRaaS

What Would It Actually Take to Replace VCD's Abstraction Layer?

Cloud Architecture - MSP Strategy VMware Cloud Director MSP Strategy Platform9 CloudStack Nutanix Open Question The question MSPs keep asking is the wrong question. "What replaces VCD?

VMware Cloud Director 10.6.x - The Definitive MSP Operations Guide

Enterprise & Service Provider Engineering | VMware Cloud Director VCD 10.6.x Veeam Cloud Connect Zerto MSP / Service Provider / Enterprise Gotcha Catalog VMware Cloud Director 10.6.x

Migrating Massive VMs: Overcoming Cloud Ingestion Bottlenecks

veeam - cloud migration - aws - azure - oci - rto - ingestion What this covers The real friction in large VM migrations to AWS, Azure, and

The "Invisible" Repository: Building a Budget Air-Gap for SMB Stacks

veeam v13 - immutability - smb infrastructure - air gap What you will get out of this A production-viable architecture for a disconnected, immutable Veeam repository using commodity

The End of the Windows Proxy? Performance Scaling on Linux

Veeam v13 - Proxy Architecture and Security For most of Veeam's history, a Windows server was the default choice for a backup proxy - familiar, well-documented,

The AI Home Lab: Virtualizing and Protecting Heavy GPU Workloads

vmware vsphere - gpu passthrough - amd rocm - local ai - veeam backup What this covers How to architect a virtualized home server that runs AMD MI50

MFA and 4-Eyes Authorization for the Solo Admin

Veeam Security - Access Control Four-Eyes Authorization exists to prevent a single compromised account from deleting your backups. Most teams skip it because it sounds like an enterprise

The VSA "Stress Test": Breaking the Pre-Hardened Appliance

Veeam v13 - Security Architecture Deep Dive The Veeam Software Appliance ships pre-hardened. Most people take that at face value and move on. This article does not. We