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13 guides on storage, covering backup strategy, recovery planning, and data protection for production and homelab infrastructure.

How to Perform Bare Metal Backup and Recovery on Windows 10

A bare metal backup on Windows 10 is a full system image that includes the operating system, installed applications, system settings, and...

How can you back up a Windows computer to a Synology NAS?

Backing up a Windows computer to a Synology NAS puts the copies in one place, protects the data better and makes recovery easier after a...

What Is VMware vSAN and How Do You Configure a vSAN Cluster?

VMware vSAN is a software-defined storage solution built directly into the ESXi hypervisor. It combines the local storage devices of...

What Is the VMX File in VMware and How Is It Used?

The VMX file is the main configuration file of a virtual machine in VMware environments. It sits in the VM's folder on the datastore and...

What Is VMware VMFS and How It Simplifies Disaster Recovery

VMFS (Virtual Machine File System) is a high-performance clustered file system built for VMware virtual environments. It lets multiple...

What a VMware MF File Does During VM Migration

A VMware MF file, or Manifest File, is a checksum reference file created when you export a virtual machine as an OVF or OVA package. It...

How to Grow a VMware VM Disk and Extend Its Partition

Increasing a VMware virtual machine's disk size takes two steps: expanding the virtual disk at the hypervisor level, then extending the...

How to Schedule Backups with Proxmox Backup Server in Proxmox VE

Proxmox Backup Server stores and manages backup data, but the backup tasks themselves are created and scheduled in Proxmox VE. To set up a...

What Is Proxmox Backup Server and How to Install and Configure It

Proxmox Backup Server is an open-source enterprise backup solution that provides secure, efficient, and easy-to-manage backup and restore...

How to mount a disk in Proxmox VE and use it for VMs or storage

Mounting a disk in Proxmox VE usually means preparing the physical disk, formatting it with a suitable filesystem, and adding it to the...

VHD vs VHDX in Hyper-V: Differences and How to Work With Them

VHD and VHDX are the virtual hard disk formats Hyper-V uses to store the full contents of a virtual machine's disk, including operating...

Fixing the “Virtual Machine Disk Consolidation Is Needed” Alert

The "virtual machine disk consolidation is needed" alert usually shows up when snapshot delta files are left behind after a snapshot...

What Is VM Sprawl and How Can Organizations Prevent It?

VM sprawl is the uncontrolled growth of virtual machines in an IT environment, usually because VMs are easy to create and management...