Broadcom’s VCF 9.1 Memory Tiering post, published in May 2026, says enterprise DDR5 RDIMM costs have surged since 2023 and that a high-density virtualization node now costs more than twice as much as it did. I already went through the 2026 memory and flash price numbers in my post vSphere Standard Is Coming Back, and … Read more
On 6 September, my lab Veeam Software Appliance (build 13.1.1.18) installed a mandatory system and security update, restarted its services, and rebooted itself. Two clicks, one confirmation, and the appliance handled the rest. No ISO, no installer wizard, no shell session. This quick blog post shows how easy it is to update your Veeam Backup … Read more
Series: Building Resilient SAP Infrastructure on VCF In Part 1, I laid out the four-site, four-layer architecture. In Part 2, I built the floor: two stretched domains across Site A and Site B, vSAN ESA under the management plane, NetApp MetroCluster NFS under the SAP workloads, and three referees at Site C. Everything in those … Read more
I added a second node to an Ootbi cluster in the lab this week. The flow is short and mostly gets out of your way, but a firewall rule or a certificate will decide whether it goes smoothly, so here it is with the screens in front of you. The node came up on 1.7.82.12645. … Read more
Every backup storage vendor says their product is immutable. The word is on every datasheet in the category, which means it no longer tells you anything useful on its own. So the question is narrower. Put an Ootbi next to the other appliances you would consider for the same rack slot, and what is actually … Read more
This week two things happened on the same day. VMware confirmed it will release an updated vSphere Standard, and Proxmox announced 24/7 enterprise support plus a North American subsidiary. There is no indication that either was a response to the other. Together they say more about the lower end of the virtualization market than almost … Read more
As always, when I run into an issue that takes real troubleshooting before I can fix it, and the result is something others can learn from, I mark it down as a good subject for a blog post. This “NSX Distributed Firewall Memory Exhaustion at Scale” one is very much that case. We had an … Read more
Second post in the Veeam Fix Series, where I take real issues I had to fix in customer environments and go through what the problem was and what the fix was. Names, IPs, and job names are dummy. The command output, error messages, and numbers are real. This one is about two tenants that reported … Read more
In the last few weeks I had to fix several issues for some of our customers. Some of them are good examples to share, so I will pick a few and write a few simple, short blog posts for each one about what the issue was and what the fix was. This is the first … Read more
This is my second blog post about European public cloud services. I started this series with a deep dive into Cleura, a Swedish OpenStack-based provider. This time, in “Leaseweb Cloud: A European Cloud Alternative,” I am looking at a company much closer to home: Leaseweb, a Dutch cloud and infrastructure provider that has been operating … Read more
