IncusOS Is the New Minimal Hypervisor OS Changing Home Labs in 2025
Many in the home lab these days are running Proxmox, XCP-ng, or “maybe” back to the now free “again” VMware ESXi. However, another really cool hypervisor that you may not…
Category: Virtualization
The Great VMware Exodus, Real Migration Stories and Alternatives for 2025
We have seen/are seeing a seismic shift in the virtualization space after Broadcom completed the $61 billion acquisition of VMware in November 2023. What has followed has been a complete…
VMware Cloud Foundation VCF 9.0 Released New Features
Well, we have heard about it for quite some time now, but VMware Cloud Foundation VCF 9.0 is here. It has a lot of new enhancements that will provide a…
VMware ESXi Free Edition Available Again with 8.0U3e – Download Now!
I really couldn’t believe the news that just surfaced on Twitter and elsewhere that Broadcom is bringing back the Free ESXi hypervisor. When we say this past year and this…
VMware Tools Vulnerability VMSA-2025-0005: What You Need to Know
In case you didn’t know, VMware released a new VMware security advisory noted in the VMSA-2025-0005 bulletin and notes the flaw: CVE-2025-22230. This allows a user with limited privileges on…
Broadcom Locking VMware Updates to Require Download Token for Site ID
Well, more tightening with VMware by Broadcom. Broadcom has announced major changes to the way VIAdmins are getting updates in their environments. Let’s take a look at how Broadcom locking…
VMSA-2025-0004 Critical VMware ESXi, Workstation, and Fusion Vulnerability Patch Now!
In case you haven’t heard as of yet, there is a new critical VMware ESXi, Workstation, and Fusion vulnerability that has been discovered and noted in the VMSA-2025-0004 security bulletin.…
Platform9 Community Edition Free Download and Install: Migrate from VMware
In case you haven’t heard about Platform9 it is a real contender in the enterprise virtualization space. There have been some pretty large VMware customers that have transitioned over to…
Best Hypervisor in 2025: It depends on your pain tolerance
Wow there have been so many changes with virtualization from 2024 into 2025, when looking back at the ground we have covered so far in 2024 and now moving into…
NVMe Memory Tiering Configuration in VMware: 4x Your RAM!
There have been a lot of new features added recently in the VMware vSphere world, and especially with VMware vSphere 8.0 Update 3. Just when you think that you might…