Reading Time: < 1 minuteInteresting European IT events:
Reading Time: 11 minutesThe primary reason for becoming vExpert certainly should not be related to any possible benefits of the program. And once confirmed (for me is the seven year in a row) you have to think more about what you can give rather to what is to be expected. But I’d be a hypocrite to deny that there are also practical advantages in being a vExpert!
Officially, VMware, according with the vExpert FAQ, say that the biggest benefit of the award is the public recognition as a VMware vExpert Award winner.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteWhen you create a new virtual machine in VMware vSphere (or also on a standalone ESXi) a default virtual hardware is choosed, according with the version of the ESXi.
You can choose your own (with the custom wizard) or upgrade later, but note that the virtual hardware upgrade from the vSphere Client will always upgrade to the latest version supported by the host. Otherwise the upgrade from the vSphere Web Client you can choose the different version of virtual hardware.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteFinally Veeam has released on the patches portal both Veeam Backup & Replication 9.0 Update 1 (build 9.0.0.1491) and Veeam ONE v9 Update 1 (build 9.0.0.2088).
For Backup & Replication note that after installing the update, during the first start of the Veeam Backup Service, required modifications will be made to the configuration database automatically to optimize its performance. These modifications may take up to 10 minutes to complete. Please do not reboot the Veeam server, or attempt to stop the service during this operation.
Reading Time: 2 minutesVeeam Managed Backup Portal is a remote backup monitoring, remote management and more announced during the last VeeamON event, and finally avalabile for for service providers, including resellers looking to provide a managed backup solution. And more important it’s free!
Veeam Managed Backup Portal for Service Providers provides a FREE business-in-a-box, so you can launch a successful Veeam-powered managed backup solution.
Reading Time: 4 minutesNAKIVO Backup & Replication v6 was released with some interesting features. Most are minor features, but there is one very huge and almost unique: it support native backup and replication of Amazon EC2 instances!
Considering that Amazon EC2 is one of the most popular public compute cloud, which enables customers to rapidly deploy and run cloud-based instances.
NAKIVO Backup & Replication v6 is one of the first to provide native backup and replication of Amazon EC2 instances and features:
Reading Time: 2 minutesPast week, Nutanix has released the Acropolis File Services (AFS): a web-scale native file serving solution built using the same technology that powers Nutanix Enterprise Clouds.
Announced at the last .NEXT Conference, this solution open also to non VM based services and make Nutanix a more complete storage vendor. AFS make possible manage storing and serving unstructured data, like home directories, user profiles, application logs and department shares, with the same Nutanix technologies and approach.
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