Since November 19th 2025, Veeam officially launched its version 13 and one of the highlights is definitely the release of the Veeam Software Appliance v13 (VSA). This is basically Veeam Backup & Replication (VBR) running as an appliance with Rocky...
Continue reading...Upgrade Unifi Network Application (controller) 7.5.x to 8.1.113 using docker and MongoDB
At home I’m using the Unifi switches, wireless access points and a self-hosted network controller.This controller runs on my Intel NUC as a docker container which I deploy and manage using Portainer.io. Everything works like a charm! Generally, upgrades of...
Continue reading...Upgrade NSX 4.1 to 4.1.1
Introduction Since it’s the holiday season, it is the perfect time to do some software upgrades in the lab that are a bit more intense. NSX is one of them, although as you will see, it was not that difficult...
Continue reading...Setting up S3-compatible storage using MinIO and Docker
Intro At Veeam we’ve had integration with AWS S3 and S3-compatible storage since VBR v9.5 Update 4. Back then it was only used as a capacity tier so for running some simple tests in the lab, I just used AWS...
Continue reading...Enabling VSAN 8 U1 ESA
Running vSphere 7U3 for a long time in the lab, I was eager to try out vSphere 8. Like many of us, I waited for the first “service pack” and once Update 1 hit the release, I went for it....
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