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Veeam Backup is now supporting Oracle Linux KVM

4 April 2024
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Veeam Backup & Replication support for KVM was limited, at the VM image level, only to Nutanix AHV and RedHat Virtualization (RHV)… until now.

Of course, is possible to use Veeam Agent to manage the backup of workloads on different type of hypervisors, but having a native image level backup support is important to improve backup speed, simplicity and also have fast recoverability.

KVM solutions are growing fast, but it’s a fragmented world, with too many variants and dialects.

Now Veeam is announcing the support for Oracle Linux KVM!

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Nexsan milestones

2 April 2024
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Nexsan is celebrating 25 years of delivering storage solutions enterprises trust for their most critical data needs, backed by the innovation and reliability that has made the company a trusted leader in the industry.

It’s not usual see storage companies that has a so long history and still are playing an important roles today.

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World Backup Day 2024

31 March 2024
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March 31st is the day to back up and better protect your data. It’s the World Backup Day!

World Backup Day has a clear, compelling message that is just as relevant and timely for enterprises today as it is for individual consumers: “Be prepared against data loss and data theft.” The organizers of World Backup Day tout March 31st as “the day to prevent data loss.” Indeed, this should be a mandate every day. With data backup as king in a chess game-like strategy to combat cyberattacks, preparation is everything.

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Book review: VMware Cloud on AWS Blueprint

24 March 2024
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I’ve was curious to learn more about VMware Cloud on AWS, so I decided to read a new book from Packt, released on Feb 2024, with the title: VMware Cloud on AWS Blueprint: Design, automate, and migrate VMware workloads on AWS global infrastructure. The book is also available on Amazan at this link.

It explores some use cases and best practices to seamlessly migrate and scale legacy enterprise-grade applications running on on-premises vSphere environments to VMware Cloud SDDCs running on AWS infrastructure.

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Type of vSphere Guest OS Customization engines for Linux VM

21 March 2024
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VMware vSphere has a guest customization feature to change some guest OS setting for VMs that are cloned of deployed from template. For example to change the computer name, network settings, or timezone settings.

Customizing guest operating systems helps prevent conflicts that occur if virtual machines with identical settings are deployed, for example conflicts due to duplicate computer names.

For Linux based VM there are two diffent type of guest OS customization engines:

  • Perl based customization engine (the initial engine)
  • cloud-init based customization engine (introduced in vSphere 7.0.3 and in the vSphere Client GUI in vSphere 8)

But which one is used and which could be preferred?

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Proxmox Backup Solution by NAKIVO

20 March 2024
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NAKIVO has just released a new solution to back up and recover Proxmox VM data.

Proxmox Backup Solution by NAKIVO that is already available to download. 

https://www.nakivo.com/proxmox-backup/

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How to disable cloud-init on Ubuntu Server

15 March 2024
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Cloud-init is a powerful configuration tools used in several Linux distributions, but his implementation is not always the best. And on some version of Ubuntu Server it’s making the boot slower and it’s annoning with some console messaging, also after the boot phase.

There are two different approach to disable cloud-init.

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