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Changed Block Tracking in Veeam v13: What Actually Happens During an Incremental Backup

An incremental Veeam backup does not always mean an incremental read from production. Here is how change tracking actually works across VMware, Hyper-V, Nutanix AHV, and Proxmox VE in Veeam v13.

Sizing and configuring VMs on AHV 10.3 so they run fast, migrate cleanly, and work with the scheduler instead of against it

How to design VMs on AHV 10.3: vCPU and NUMA sizing, memory sizing and controlled Memory Overcommit, UEFI Secure Boot and vTPM for Windows, virtio and the Frodo path, NGT, host affinity and anti affinity under ADS, and GPU passthrough versus vGPU.

VM and Container Design Choices on Proxmox VE 9.1

Article 11 in the Proxmox VE Cluster Design Fundamentals for v9.1 series. PVCD-10 covered capacity planning and lifecycle. This article covers VM and container design choices:

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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