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2026

Unlocking NVIDIA RTX 3060 Tensor Cores on Unraid 7: Removing the 50% FP16/BF16 Cap Without Flashing VBIOS

Goodbye Windows 11 (Part 2): Living on CachyOS Linux with Zen 5 znver4, MediaTek MT7927 Wi-Fi 7, TPM 2.0 Face Auth, and Antigravity AI

Retiring the QNAP TS-873: How I Built a Silent 92TB Unraid 7 NAS with 10GbE & Local AI

Goodbye Windows 11 (Part 1): Building an All-AMD Zen 5 Workstation, Fixing Bending 4TB NVMe Drives, and TPM 2.0 & Secure Boot Gotchas

Ditching ASUS Bloatware: How I Replaced Armoury Crate with a Lightweight Open-Source Stack on Windows

Supercharging Home Assistant with MCP: Direct Entity Control, Logbook Intelligence & AI Automations

Giving AI Access to Your NAS: Building a QNAP MCP Server for Disk Health & Backup Audits

Controlling UniFi Networks with AI: Building a Custom UniFi MCP Server for Topology & Diagnostics

Connecting AI Agents to Your Homelab: Building a Multi-Server MCP Architecture with Antigravity

Private & Self-Hosted AI Web Search: Integrating SearXNG with Open WebUI for Local RAG

Solving LLM Tool Calling Incompatibilities: A Python Middleware Auth Proxy for LiteLLM & Cloud Run

Deploying a Stateful Autonomous Agent on Cloud Run: Hermes Agent with Telegram & Dual-Engine Fallback

Running Heavyweight LLMs on Google Cloud Run: 96GB VRAM, vLLM & Pure BF16 Inference

Making a Technical Blog Agent-Ready: Why and How We Built a Level 5 Agent-Native Website

Migrating Antigravity Agent Sessions Across Google Account Logins

The Only Constant is Change: Saying Goodbye to VMware and the vExpert Program

2025

2025 Year in Review - The Year Everything Changed

GCVE Expansion: ve2 Nodes Available in Milan (europe-west8)

Mixed Node Families in GCVE - Finally Supported!

Scale Storage Independently: Google Cloud NetApp Volumes for GCVE

Major Change: End of Sale for License-Included GCVE Nodes

Google Cloud VMware Engine Now Available in Doha (me-central1)

Quick Tip: Accelerate Soft Delete in GCVE with PAM

Spring Cleaning: Optimizing Google Cloud VMs and GCVE in 2025

Create new Google Cloud VMware Engine Cluster - 2025 Edition

Finally! VCF License Portability on Google Cloud VMware Engine

Using Your QNAP NAS as a NUT Server for Graceful Linux Shutdowns

Google Cloud Next '25 - Infrastructure and AI for VMware Admins

Allow Grafana Alloy to access var logs on Ubuntu Server

Protect your Git secrets with Gitguardian

2024

VMware vExpert 2025 applications are open

VMware Explore 2024 - Day 3

VMware Explore 2024 - Day 2

VMware Explore 2024 - Day 1

Google Cloud Migration Center Discovery Client Installation on Windows Server

My VMware Explore 2024 Session

Google Cloud VMware Engine Sessions at VMware Explore 2024 Barcelona

Google Cloud VMware Engine Node Types Overview

Stretched Private Clouds Now Available in Sydney with Google Cloud VMware Engine

Google Cloud VMware Engine Expands Globally with New Node Availability

More Power in GCVE: New ve2 Nodes Now Available in Frankfurt

Enhanced Security for Your VMware Workloads: VPC Service Controls Now GA in Google Cloud VMware Engine

Supercharge Your Workloads with New ve2-mega-64 Nodes in Google Cloud VMware Engine

Boost Resilience with Stretched Private Clouds on ve2 Nodes in Sydney

Google Cloud VMware Engine Expands Flexibility and Performance with New Nodes, Zones, and Licensing Options

Google Cloud VMware Engine Upgrades to vSphere 7 Update 3 and NSX-T 3.2.3.1

VMware vExpert Pro 2024

Scale Your Storage with Ease: Storage-Only Nodes Now GA in Google Cloud VMware Engine

Gain Deeper Insights into Your VMware Engine Environment with Cloud Logging Integration

11 Years as vExpert - vExpert 2024

2023

Year 2023 in Review

Optimize Your JPG and PNG Images and Use WebP Format

Upgrade vCenter Server Appliance 7.x to vCenter Server Appliance 8.x

Why Become VMware vExpert 2024 Edition

How to Backup vCenter Server Appliance 7.x and 8.x

How to remove annoying startup prompt in Windows Terminal

My Book Is Released - Google Cloud Associate Cloud Engineer Certification and Implementation Guide

Google Cloud VMware Engine Sessions at VMware Explore 2023 Barcelona

My VMware Explore 2023 Barcelona Schedule

My VMware Explore 2023 Session

GCVE Updates October 2023

GCVE Terraform and ESXi Log FW is GA

GCVE gcloud and SDK is GA

GCVE Supports VMware Aria for Logs

GCVE Supports VPC Service Controls

I Am VMware vExpert Pro

10 Years as VMware vExpert

GCVE Stretched Cluster Available in Australia

2022

vExpert Gift Review - NX6412 Maxtang EHL30

VMware Explore 2022 Summary

GCVE Stretched Cluster is GA

VMware Explore 2022 vExpert PC Gift

My Session at VMware Explore EU 2022

Google Cloud VMware Engine with VMware HCX Enterprise Available

Triple vExpert 2022

2021

VMware Fusion Installation on macOS

Google Cloud VMware Engine Configuration

Apply for VMware vExpert 2022

Google Cloud VMware Engine Overview

VMware SRM is GA for GCVE

VMworld 2021 don't miss it

Configure Qnap iSCSI as VMware Datastore

VMware vExpert Pro Award - 4th consecutive time in a row

8th time vExpert title

Configure QNAP NFS as VMware ESXi Dastastore

2020 Year review

2020

Use SSH With Private and Public Keys in VMware ESXi

Unable to run vCenter Server Appliance installer on macOS

Super Silent Supermicro SuperServer E300 8D

Upgrade ESXi 6.7 to ESXi 7.0 using esxcli

Register for Digital VMworld 2020

Join VeeamON Conference 2020

vExpert Second Round Apply and Why Should You do it?

Free Pluralsight Trainings - Free April

VMware vExpert Subprograms 2020 Announcements

VMware vExpert 2020 Announcements

Veeam Availability Suite V10 Released

Save the Date for New VMware Launch Event

2019

VMware vExpert Applications are open

VMworld 2019 EU Torrent File

Veeam ON Online Conference

Welcome to Static Site Generator

VMworld 2019 US Torrent File

VMworld 2019 US Recap and Session Download

VMworld 2019 Ticket Giveaway by Veeam

World Backup Day contest by Altaro

vExpert 2019 nomination

Changes in VMware Certification Policy

Vembu BDR 4-0 review

Altaro v8 released with really cool new features

VMware vExpert applications are open – apply now

2018

Top vBlog 2018 is there!

VMworld 2018 EU sessions download

Altaro – live Demo Webinar – Windows Server 2019 In Action

Unable to update vCSA 6.5 to 6.7 – quick fix

VMware vExpert PRO Award

Zentyal – my new Homelab Swiss Army Knife

Send VMware backups to the cloud – Altaro Offsite Copies to an Azure Cloud Storage

VMworld 2018 US sessions download

Upgrade vCenter Server Appliance 6-5 to 6-7

Happy SysAdmin Day 2018 with Altaro VM Backup

Vembu VMBackup Standard Edition 3.9.1 released

PowerCLI script to create Metro Cluster aware DRS groups

Altaro VM Backup 7.6 released

VMware Horizon 7 – fix Desktop Pool stuck in delete state

Vembu BDR Suite v3.9.0 Release with new features

NSX 6.4.0 released with cool new features

2017

News from Vembu – December 2017

VMware Certified Advanced Professional 6 — Data Center Virtualization Deployment exam experience

VMware resources from Altaro – worth to take a look!

Farewell VMware – Welcome Public Cloud

NSX SFTP Backup stops working after upgrade to NSX 6.3.*

New Vembu BDR Suite v3.8.0 Free Edition release

How to configure All-Flash vSAN from command line

VMworld 2017 sessions download

My new Home Lab

VeeamON Tour Poland – Warsaw 07.09.2017 Agenda

VeeamON Tour Poland – Warsaw 07.09.2017

Failed to start File System Check on vCenter Server Appliance (vCSA)

vExpert NSX 2017

Top vBlog 2017 results are out!

Vembu BDR Suite v3.8.0 GA Release

20 Years Anniversary of …

How to address Data Center Challenges – Vembu Webinar

Webinar – How to Migrate to VMware for Hyper-V administrators

How to upgrade VMware Distributed Switch

How to install Apple macOS in VMware Workstation on Windows

How to backup and restore vSphere Distributed Switch

Upgrade of NSX 6.2.4 to NSX 6.3.1

Vote for wojcieh.net in Top Blog 2017

Vembu BDR Suite Review

How to upgrade ESXi 6.0 to ESXi 6.5 using VMware Update Manager

How to upgrade ESXi 6.0 to ESXi 6.5 using esxcli

Ransomware education from Veeam

How to backup vCenter Server Appliance 6.5

New blog sponsor – Vembu

Update vCenter Server Appliance 6.5 to a newer version

How to upgrade ESXi 6.0 to ESXi 6.5 using Interactive Installer

How to disable LED’s in Asus AC3200 on Tomato

How to add NFS export to VMware ESXi 6.5

Runecast Analyzer 1.5 review

vCenter Server Appliance 6.5 with External Platform Services Controller

Konkurs infraXstructure 2017

Konferencja infraXstructure 2017

Migration of Windows vCenter Server 6.x to vCenter Server 6.5 Appliance

Altaro VM Backup 7.0 released with new great features

VMware vExpert 2017 Announcement

VeeamOn 2017

2016

How to download VMworld 2016 EU sessions

Build a NetApp ONTAP 9 Lab… For Free!

How to change logging level in NSX

vSphere Client HTML5 overview

How to download all VMworld 2016 US sessions

How to replace NSX Manager SSL Certificate

Configuring Syslog server for VMware NSX components

My first VMware Anniversary

VMware vRealize Log Insight – Installation and Configuration

Runecast Analyzer review

How to backup NSX?

Nakivo v6.1 released with new features

Step by Step NSX Upgrade

Nakivo Backup & Replication review

Top vBlog2016 results!

Disable Num Lock notification in VMware Workstation

Renew ESXi SSL certificates in vSphere Web Client

vCenter Server 6.* – Replacing SSL certificates with Enterprise VMCA

New blog sponsor – Altaro Software

Top vBlog 2016 voting

Veeam Availability Orchestrator announced!

Konferencja infraXstructure 2016 której nie możesz przegapić!

Failed to deploy OVF package – quick error fix

Change location of VMware ESXi System Logs to local or remote datastore

vSphere Web Client isn’t accessible after vCenter Server 6.* upgrade – error 503 Service Unavailable

vCenter Server 6.* Upgrade

vCenter Server 6 – Replacing SSL certificates with Custom VMCA

How to replace VMware ESXi 6.* SSL certificate

VMware vExpert 2016

Veeam Availability Suite v9 released

2015

Securing VMware appliance GRUB

How to reset root password in vRealize Orchestrator

Change Windows Service Log on As User from MSA/gMSA to normal account

How to use Managed Service Accounts with vCenter Server

VeeamON 2015 News

How to use DCUI from SSH

How to install Linux VMware Tools in VMware Fusion 8

Upgrade vCenter Server Appliance from version 5.* to version 6

Installing signed SSL certificates in HP c7000 enclosure

Upgrade VMware ESXi 5.* to 6.0 Part 2 – esxcli upgrade

Upgrade VMware ESXi 5.* to 6.0 Part 1 – Interactive Upgrade

I am VMware – my new job as Consultant with VMware

VMware vCenter Server 6 on Windows Server 2012 R2 with Microsoft SQL Server 2014 – Part 3

VMware vCenter Server 6 on Windows Server 2012 R2 with Microsoft SQL Server 2014 – Part 2

VMware vCenter Server 6 on Windows Server 2012 R2 with Microsoft SQL Server 2014 – Part 1

Altaro VM Backup – VMware review

NEW Veeam® Availability Suite™ v9 upcoming features

HP OneView SSL certificate replacement

Remove Custom Attribute script from Virtual Machines annotation

vCenter Server Appliance 6 (vCSA) configuration

vCenter Server Appliance 6 (vCSA) installation

Jak powinno się tworzyć profesjonalne CV

My VCAP5-DCD Exam Experience – VDCD550

Veeam Endpoint Backup FREE released

wojcieh.net voted 86 in Top vBlog 2015 – Thank you!

VMware vFlash Read Cache configuration and performance test

Nested VMware ESXi 6.0 installation guide

Installing VMware ESXi 6.0 in VMware Workstation 11

How to generate new self-signed certificate in HP c7000 enclosure

Vote for wojcieh.net for top 100 virtualization blogs on vSphere-land.com

Konferencja InfraXstructure – 21.04.2015 w Warszawie

HP OneView overview and installation

VMware vExpert 2015 award

Deploying OVF template using vSphere Client and vSphere Web Client

VMware vSphere 6 released

HP c7000 Blade Enclosure Configuration

HP c7000 Onboard Administrator firmware update

VMUG Advantage with EVALExperience

HP Virtual Connect Module Configuration – Part2

HP Virtual Connect Module Configuration – Part1

Veeam Endpoint Backup FREE Beta available

2014

2014 Year review

Veeam Availability Suite v8 available

Emergency patching using vSphere Update Manager

VMware vRealize Operations Manager 5.8.* – Configuration

VMware vRealize Operations Manager 5.8.* – Installation

HP Virtual Connect firmware upgrade

VMTurbo Operations Manager installation, configuration and review

HP MLC IO Accelerator for BladeSystem c-Class installation and configuration

Spotkanie VMUG Polska – 27.11.2014

vCenter 5.5 on Windows Server 2012 R2 with SQL Server 2014 – Part 3

vCenter 5.5 on Windows Server 2012 R2 with SQL Server 2014 – Part 2

vCenter 5.5 on Windows Server 2012 R2 with SQL Server 2014 – Part 1

How to fix Hardware Status Add-in Card 10 35-GPU warning

VMworld 2014 Barcelona – Day 3

VMworld 2014 Barcelona – Day 2

VMworld 2014 Barcelona – Day 1 - 1

VMworld 2014 Barcelona – Day 0

VMware Certified Advanced Professional 5 – Data Center Administration Exam Experience

Microsoft Cluster running on VMware ESXi – Cluster in a Box

How to configure N-Port ID Virtualization on VMware ESXi

Free Study Guide for Microsoft Certification Exam 74-409 from Veeam

Upgrade ESXi 5.1 to 5.5 Part 4 – vSphere Auto Deploy

VMware vSphere 6 beta publicly available

Brocade Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) – free training and certification

Migrate from Vyatta to VyOS

How to create application user in Active Directory

VMware vSphere 5.5 Update 1 Hardening Guide

How to make Microsoft license report in minutes?

VMware vSphere Management Assistant 5.5 (vMA) – installation, configuration and usage

CloudCred – learn about VMware, Cloud and earn rewards

VMware Education – Free Courses

Spotkanie VMUG Polska – 13 maja 2014

What’s next for me in education in 2014 – VMware Education

VMware vExpert 2014 benefits

New blog sponsor: Veeam

VMware vExpert 2014 Award

Upgrade ESXi 5.1 to 5.5 Part 3 – esxcli

VMware vSphere Auto Deploy configuration guide – Part 2

VMware vSphere Auto Deploy configuration guide – Part 1

Upgrade ESXi 5.1 to 5.5 Part 2 – Interactive Upgrade

Upgrade ESXi 5.1 to 5.5 Part 1 – VMware Update Manager

VMware vSphere 5.5 Hardening Guide

iSCSI Software Adapter configuration using vSphere Web Client

Nexenta iSCSI installation and configuration for ESXi

VMware books – what is worth to read

2013

VMware ESXi 5.5 Active Directory authentication – step by step

SteamOS on VMware Workstation

VMware Certified Professional 5 – Data Center Virtualization – Passed!

Free VMware VCA Certifications till end of January 2014

Spotkanie VMUG Polska – 19.11.2013 Warszawa

VMware vSphere Update Manager 5.5

vCenter Server 5.5 on SQL Server 2012 installation – Part 3

vCenter Server 5.5 on SQL Server 2012 installation – Part 2

vCenter Server 5.5 on SQL Server 2012 installation – Part 1

Upgrade to VCP5-DCV – finally possible

VMware Workstation 10 – cool new features

How to remove Google Authenticator account?

How to fix large SQL Server transaction log file?

Vyatta – Router running on VMware Workstation – Part 3, Firewall Hardening

How to change TSM port on VMware ESX 4.1

Keep Calm and do it with VMware

Centos 6.4 yum proxy timeout error

Virtual Home Lab Upgrade

Vyatta – Router running on VMware Workstation – Part 2 DNS, Firewall and NAT

VMware Wallpapers

Vyatta – Router running on VMware Workstation – Part 1 basic networking

Find when Virtual Machine was created using SQL query

HP c7000 Onboard Administrator LDAP Active Directory authentication

Free Kindle Frank Denneman and Duncan Epping books – Promotion!

How to migrate Virtual Machine with snapshots between datastores

How to see hidden adapter IP settings in Windows

Servers memory configuration tool

How to change synced folders in BlackBerry

VMware Tools and Hardware Version upgrade on Windows Server Core Domain Controller

VMware Update Manager points to wrong database

Share week czyli moje blogów czytanie

Spotkanie polskiej grupy VMUG

Turbocharge Apache with mod_pagespeed from Google

DNS funny joke

Solve NTP time drift on VPS server

VMware ESXi 5.1 USB install

Status update – 2013

2012

Dell Vostro 3350 – wrażenia po dwóch miesiącach użytkowania

Znalezienie odłączonych sesji terminalowych z pomocą Powershella

Profesjonalne CV na zamówienie – czy warto?

Zarzadzanie hasłami w środowisku korporacyjnym

Import certyfikatów SSL w Linuxie i Windowsie

HP BladeSystem Administration: c-Class – wrażenia po szkoleniu

Rozwiązanie problemu wieszającego się procesu explorer.exe

Microsoft Lync – rozmowy zakładkowo niekontrolowane

2011

Konwersja absolutna – VMware vCenter Converter

Wyniki konkursu – mamy zwycięzców!

Konkurs pytanie trzecie

Konkurs pytanie drugie

Konkurs pytanie pierwsze

Mikołajkowy konkurs

VMworld Europe 2011 Kopenhaga – podsumowanie

VMworld Europe 2011 Kopenhaga – dzień 3

VMworld Europe 2011 Kopenhaga – dzień 2

VMworld Europe 2011 Kopenhaga – dzień 1

VMworld Europe 2011 Kopenhaga – dzień 0

VMworld Europe 2011 Kopenhaga

Nowy hosting bloga – hitme.net.pl

Wdrażanie Mozilla Firefox w Active Directory

Od dzisiaj jestem VMware Certified Professional

Darmowe książki z Microsoft Press

iLO2 dodanie nowego użytkownika

Event 40960 LSASRV i jego przyczyna

Backup lepiej jest mieć niż nie mieć

Wdrażanie Google Chrome w Active Directory

Reset hasła iLO2

Podświetlana klawiatura A4Tech KL-126 BLACK – opinia i wrażenia

2010

Podsumowanie roku 2010

Nowa praca – witamy w UPM

Opinia o moim nowym hostingu – glowanet.pl

Second Shot powraca i to w jakim wydaniu !

Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer Security

Odmień swoją stronę WWW – użyj Google Font

Rok pracy w IBM

Could not find this item ?!? o co chodzi ?

Prosty błąd w ustawieniach wordpressa i proste rozwiązanie

System nie wykrywa poprawnie pendrive – rozwiązanie problemu

Dobra informacja dla zdających egzamin 70-640 lub 70-536

Zmiana registratora domen = oszczedność!

Seminarium on-line Cisco – Competency Based Interview

Dlaczego wirtualizuję z VMware?

Gdzie na narty w Czechach ?

Pół roku życia w Brnie – małe podsumowanie

2009

Egzamin 71-693: Pro: Windows Server 2008 R2, Virtualization Administrator

Virtual Business Cards nowe narzędzie Microsoftu

Moja prezentacja na virtualstudy.pl

Zapowiedź nowych egzaminów z wirtualizacji Microsoft

Virtualstudy – sesje przygotowujące do egzaminu 70-652

Microsoft Office Web Apps czy warto czekać ?

22.10.2009 premiera Windows Server 2008 R2 i Windows 7

Virtualstudy.pl

Videocast – dodawanie zdjęć na allegro

Darmowe zdjęcia na allegro część druga

IBM IDC Brno – porady i spostrzeżenia

IBM IDC Rekrutacja

Windows Server 2008 R2 – moje wrazenia po kilku dniach użytkowania

IBM IDC Brno

Niesluszna oplata egzaminacyjna za egzamin Prometric

Blokowanie Internet Explorera poprzez GPO w Active Directory

Jak dodać wiele zdjęć do aukcji na allegro ? Krótki poradnik

Egzamin TS: Configuring Microsoft Windows Vista Client zdany

Egzamin 70-652 zdany

Darmowe szkolenie 70-620 w Combidata Rzeszów

Egzamin 70-291 zdany

2008

Praktyczne aspekty wirtualizacji – Klienci Microsoft

Testowa wersja Windows Vista i Windows Server 2008 za 30 zł

Allegro – czyli historia pewnego negatywa

Welcome Kit w końcu dotarł

Mały Wojtuś – czyli jak to było kiedyś

quiz2008.pl nagrody

WP-Gravatar hosting killer

Quiz 2008 – runda 2

quiz2008.pl I jak tu nie kochać Microsoftu ? :D

Google Documents – moje boje

2007

Microsoft Welcome Kit oraz Transcript

Microsoft Certified Professional – To ja :)

Żegnaj New Balance witaj Bać Pol

Truecrypt i maly skrypt

MS 2273 ukonczony

Praca

2006

Moj pierwszy blog