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VMware

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 produced the most disruptive licensing change the virtualization market has seen in a long time. Perpetual licenses are gone entirely. The product

VMware

VMware Cloud Foundation 9: End-to-End Setup -- VCF Installer, VCF Operations, Workload Domains, and Day 2

VCF 9 VMware Cloud Foundation VCF Operations NSX vSAN SDDC Manager vLCM Workload Domains Standalone Infrastructure | Component: VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0 | Audience: Enterprise Architects, Cloud Infrastructure Admins VMware Cloud Foundation 9 is a significant departure from what came before it. The VCF Installer appliance is new. VCF Operations is

VMware

VMware vSphere 8 Cluster Setup End to End -- ESXi, VCSA, vSAN, DRS, HA, and vLCM

vSphere 8 ESXi vCenter vSAN DRS HA vDS vLCM Standalone Infrastructure | Component: vSphere 8.0, VCSA 8.0 | Audience: Enterprise Architects, Senior Sysadmins Building a vSphere 8 cluster end to end means making a sequence of decisions that compound on each other. vSAN or external storage changes your networking requirements.

Veeam v13: Setup and Configuration with VMware Cloud Foundation

Veeam v13 VCF 9 VMware Cloud Foundation VSA vSAN Setup Veeam v13 Series | Component: VBR v13, VSA v13 | Audience: Hands-on Sysadmins, Enterprise Architects VCF 9 changed enough that instructions written for VCF 5.x don't map cleanly onto what you'll actually find in the console. The

Hyper-V

Setting Up ManageIQ Spassky for KVM and Hyper-V

ManageIQ is the upstream open-source project behind Red Hat CloudForms and Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform's infrastructure management layer. It gives you a single pane of glass across heterogeneous hypervisors, pulling inventory, capacity metrics, policy compliance, and automation into one interface. If you have KVM hosts managed through

Veeam

Adding and Configuring Backup Proxies (VMware and Hyper-V)

Veeam v13 - Installation Series 📅 March 2026 · ⏱ ~15 min read · By Eric Black Backup Proxy VMware Hyper-V VBR v13 Transport Mode HotAdd 📋 In This Article 1. What the Backup Proxy Does 2. VMware Transport Modes Explained 3. Adding a VMware Backup Proxy 4. Proxy Sizing and Concurrent Tasks 5. Hyper-V

Hyper-V

Veeam Backup & Replication v13 with Microsoft Hyper-V: A Complete Setup Guide

Veeam v13 Series Platform: Microsoft Hyper-V on Windows Server 2019 / 2022 / 2025 Applies to: Veeam Backup and Replication v13 (13.0.1+) Hyper-V VBR v13 Windows Server Backup Off-Host Proxy In this article 1. What this covers 2. Requirements and supported versions 3. Before you connect anything 4. Adding the

Proxmox

Setting Up Veeam v13 with Proxmox VE: A Complete Integration Guide

Veeam v13 · Proxmox VE · Integration Series 📅 March 2026 · ⏱ ~15 min read · By Eric Black Veeam v13 Proxmox VE VBR Workers CBT VMware Migration 📋 In This Article 1. The VMware Exodus and What It Means for Backup 2. How It All Fits Together 3. Before You Start: Requirements and Hard Stops

AHV

Setting Up Veeam v13 with Nutanix AHV: A Complete Integration Guide

Veeam v13 · Nutanix AHV · Integration Series 📅 March 2026 · ⏱ ~15 min read · By Eric Black Veeam v13 Nutanix AHV Prism Central VBR AHV Plug-In Workers 📋 In This Article 1. Why This Integration Changed the Game 2. How It All Fits Together 3. Before You Start: Requirements and Gotchas 4. A Word

VCD

VMware Cloud Director and Veeam: What Actually Breaks and How to Fix It

A practitioner's guide to the integration pitfalls that disrupt production replication, and how to fix them. Introduction Most VMware Cloud Director administrators have lived through some version of this: a replication job that ran without a single failure for months goes silent after a routine certificate renewal. Tickets