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Type of vSphere Guest OS Customization engines for Linux VM

21 March 2024
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Reading Time: 5 minutesVMware 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: But which one is used and which could be preferred?

Highlights, VMware

Proxmox backup support in NAKIVO

20 March 2024
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Reading Time: 2 minutesNAKIVO 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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What is SONiC?

14 March 2024
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Reading Time: 2 minutesSoftware for Open Networking in the Cloud (SONiC) is is a free and open source network operating system based on Linux. SONiC is the open networking solution used in Microsoft’s Azure Cloud: is the networking switch software used in the lower layer of Azure Datacenter fabric (TOR and Aggregation).

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Veeam plug-in for Oracle RMAN – Manual mode

11 March 2024
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Reading Time: 6 minutesVeeam plug-in for Oracle RMAN can be used for transactionally-consistent RMAN-based backups of Oracle databases and in some cases (as described in the previous article) it could be the only way (or the preferred way) to manage Oracle database backup. Probably the best way to manage it is from the Veeam Backup Console, as described in the previous article. But it’s also possible manage it manually.

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Veeam plug-in for Oracle RMAN – Managed mode

8 March 2024
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Reading Time: 6 minutesVeeam plug-in for Oracle RMAN can be used for transactionally-consistent RMAN-based backups of Oracle databases and in some cases (as described in the previous article) it could be the only way (or the preferred way) to manage Oracle database backup. In this post, we will see how use it in amanaged mode, buy automatically installing and configuring it via the Veeam Backup Console.

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Veeam plug-in for Oracle RMAN

7 March 2024
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Reading Time: 3 minutesVeeam Backup & Replication offers two options to protect Oracle databases: You can use both or one of the options depending on your environment specifics and approach to handle Oracle databases.

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Possible VMware vSphere backup corruption with unpatched version

4 March 2024
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Reading Time: 2 minutesSince version 4.x, VMware vSphere provides native API to perform image level backup of running VMs: VMware vSphere Storage APIs – Data Protection (formerly known as VMware vStorage APIs for Data Protection or VADP). Those API are based on VMware snapshot to create a readable base VMDK disk that can be easily copied by a compatible backup solution using a full transfer or using incremental transfer with Changed Block Tracking (CBT) feature.

vBackup, VMware
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