Veeam Management Console is a handy application usually found on the main Veeam server within the infrastructure or on a dedicated “Console” server. While the console itself is pretty awesome, it is sometimes quite tedious to troubleshoot or repair. Today we’re going to learn how to fix it without a reboot.

Virtual Network Interface Cards (vNIC) are sometimes getting overlooked by virtualization administrators as for some it seems like they don’t matter much. Let’s see what happens after we switch good ol’ E1000 for VMXNET3 and what is the difference between the two.

Let’s talk about virtual disks a bit – today we’re going to convert a VMDK from thin to thick provisioning. This operation is quite simple and doesn’t really require much preparation, however I thought I’ll post a quickie about it as after googling a bit, I couldn’t find an easy step-by-step guide anywhere.

I’d like to dedicate this post to my dear friend – C.P. – who once said: ”How the f!!k do you setup FTP on this stupid OS”. His words game me inspiration, an idea for the best post this blog will ever be a home of: How to setup an SFTP server in the fastest, easiest and just secure enough to be acceptable.

Here’s a follow-up to my previous Homelab 2.0 post in which we are going to take a look at an alternative approach – nesting VMware ESXi VMs on an ESXi host. This approach to a nested homelab environment can be much simpler for those lucky enough to have hardware officially supported by ESXi.