Proxmox

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: KVM

By Eric Black · 29 May 2026 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

By Eric Black · 22 Mar 2026 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

By Eric Black · 16 Mar 2026 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

By Eric Black · 16 Mar 2026 VM

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

By Eric Black · 14 Mar 2026 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

By Eric Black · 12 Mar 2026 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

By Eric Black · 12 Mar 2026 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

By Eric Black · 10 Mar 2026 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

By Eric Black · 10 Mar 2026 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.

By Eric Black · 10 Mar 2026 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

By Eric Black · 5 Mar 2026