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VMware Hybrid Cloud Extension for VMware Cloud on AWS

30 November 2017
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteVMware has announced a preview of VMware Hybrid Cloud Extension service as an add-on service to VMware Cloud on AWS. (like the Site Recovery add-on). Hybrid Cloud Extension service will enable customers to adopt the latest VMware Cloud on AWS offers, without the need to refactor applications and redo security and compliance architectures. Hybrid Cloud Extension service will provide large scale application migration and mobility between legacy VMware vSphere environments (vSphere 5.0+) and VMware Cloud on AWS to support this use case.

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DRaaS with VMware Site Recovery

30 November 2017
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Reading Time: 3 minutesDuring AWS re:Invent 2017 event, VMware has announced a new service based on VMware Cloud on AWS. The new service brings VMware enterprise-class Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC) Disaster Recovery as a Service to the AWS Cloud. VMware Site Recovery™, a robust disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS) offering that protects workloads between on-premises datacenters and VMware Cloud on AWS, as well as between different instances of VMware Cloud on AWS.

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License changed for Vembu

29 November 2017
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Reading Time: 3 minutesVembu is a player in the backup and data protection world, maybe not (yet) well-know, but for sure not new at all and with a complete suite that cover the physical world, the virtual (VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V) and also some public cloud SaaS solutions. Now there are some important news in the licensing options.

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NAKIVO Backup & Replication v7.3

27 November 2017
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Reading Time: 2 minutesNAKIVO has just released the release of NAKIVO Backup & Replication: the new version 7.3 is now much friendly with enterprise-grade deduplication appliances such as EMC Data Domain, HP StoreOnce, NEC Hydrastor, Quantum DXi, and other similar appliances, when they are used as a backup target. There is a new special backup repository type with the special architecture optimized for working with deduplication devices. Thus, before backing up VM data to a deduplication appliance, you can choose to use this repository type, and your data will be backed up to the storage server at a great performance […]

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The dark side of converged storage networks

26 November 2017
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Reading Time: 14 minutesThis is an article realized for StarWind blog and focused on the design and implementation of a ROBO infrastructure. See also the original post. Introduction The fabric of SAN (means Storage Area Network) with Fibre Channel solutions have always been a dedicated network, with dedicated components (like FC switches). But, starting with iSCSI and FCoE protocols, the storage fabric could now be shared with the traditional network infrastructure, because at least level 1 and 2 have a common Ethernet layer (for iSCSI also layer 3 and 4 are the same of TCP/IP networks).

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Intel Management Engine security issues

24 November 2017
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Reading Time: 3 minutesIn response to issues identified by external researchers, Intel has performed an in-depth comprehensive security review of our Intel® Management Engine (ME), Intel® Server Platform Services (SPS), and Intel® Trusted Execution Engine (TXE) with the objective of enhancing firmware resilience. As a result on 20th Nov 2017, Intel has identified security vulnerabilities that could potentially place impacted platforms at risk. In response to issues identified by external researchers, Intel has performed an in-depth comprehensive security review of its Intel® Management Engine (ME), Intel® Trusted Execution Engine (TXE), and Intel® Server Platform Services (SPS) with the […]

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OVF deployment fails after upgrading vCenter 6.5

23 November 2017
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Reading Time: 2 minutesStarting with vSphere 6.5 you have some limitations with OVF format. For example you cannot export in OVA format anymore. Note that you can still import in OVF or OVA. But you may have also some issues in OVF import.

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