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Reading Time: 4 minutes As I mentioned in the Veeam Backup & Replication 12.2 upgrade notes article, a Veeam Backup upgrade does NOT upgrade the embedded database (if you are using the embedded database deployment). If you want to upgrade also the embedded database server part, you need to do it manually! Starting with Backup & Replication v12, the default embedded database is PostgreSQL.

Reading Time: 3 minutes Veeam Product Lifecycle is a little different compared to other vendors. When a new major version came out in General Availability (GA) the previous version reach the End of Fix status. Only the End of Support deadline is pre-defined and documented when a product will be released. This, of course, push the upgrade phase to be as faster as possible to still have hotfixes and patches.

Reading Time: 4 minutes IPv4 (Internet Protocol version 4) is a widely used protocol for network communication and is a core component of the TCP/IP stack. But it has some limits, one is the limit in terms of available addresses, expecially if we are talking about public IP. IPv6 (Internet Protocol version 6) was design to resolve all the limitation of IPv4. IPv6 is designated by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) as the successor to IPv4 providing the following benefits:

Reading Time: < 1 minute Before the decision of  Broadcom to sell the VMware’s EUC Division, the compatibility between (VMware) Horizon and VMware vSphere was simply included in the Product Interoperability Matrix. But now, of course this VMware site is no more updated because does not include recent versions of both products:

Reading Time: 3 minutes In 2020, The CentOS Project, in coordination with Red Hat, announced that it would shift full investment to CentOS Stream, the upstream development platform for upcoming Red Hat Enterprise Linux releases. That mean that will be no more alligned to the production version of Red Hat Enterprise. As a result, CentOS Linux 7 has reached end of life (EOL) on June 30, 2024.  One of the possible CentOS Linux alternative can be Rocky Linux.

Reading Time: < 1 minute To enhance the commitment to customer satisfaction, VMware has just announced the decision of extending the general support period for VMware vSphere 7.x of six month, from April 2, 2025 to October 2, 2025. 

Reading Time: 2 minutes VMware® vCenter Converter Standalone provides an easy-to-use solution that automates the process of creating VMware virtual machines from physical machines (running Windows and Linux) and from other virtual machine formats. Actually the most recent version remain the Converter 6.6 updated on Feb, 22 2024. Considering that one of my most requested article was VMware Converter guest OS support, I decide to make an updated version.

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