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Veeam Backup & Replication support for VMware vSphere 8.0U3

13 August 2024
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Reading Time: 2 minutes Like every hardware and software components, before apply a VMware vSphere upgrade or update you have to check all compatibility aspects. One is related to the backup software that can be critical because you may loose the capability to perform backup and/or restore. Of course this apply also to “minor” update, like vSphere 8.0U3. For Veeam Backup & Replication there is a specific Veeam KB (KB 2443) that provides information about compatibility between VMware vSphere and Veeam Backup & Replication. And finally, some weeks after ESXi 8.0.3 become GA, there is an official support for vSphere […]

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Upgrading Horizon Connection Server from Windows Server 2016/2019 to 2022

5 August 2024
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Reading Time: 3 minutes If you are are planning to upgrade your Horizon Connection Server’s OS, there are two different paths. One is using an in-place upgrade of Windows Server that can work (in theory). The second one is decommisioning your connection server and replace with a new one (and repeat if you have more). The strategy really depends of the size of your environment and how much is production critical. With a dev or lab environment single server, the in-place OS upgrade could make sense.

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A problem with one or more vFAT bootbank partitions was detected on an ESXi

4 August 2024
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Reading Time: 3 minutes VMware ESXi partitions layout includes some old FAT partitions used for the two bootbanks. A strange choice that can bring, in some cases, the corruption of those partitions and you may notice during an upgrade. With vSphere 8.0 the suggested update procedure is using the images instead of the (old) baselines.

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YARA exit code 1 in Veeam Backup Scan

1 August 2024
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Reading Time: 2 minutes Backup Scan using YARA rule is one of the new feature of Malware detection methods in Veeam Backup & Replication 12.1. During the Scan Backup session, does one of the following:Finds the last clean restore pointAnalyzes the content for specific informationDuring the restore session with the Secure Restore option, detects malware activity as specified in the YARA rule.

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Reassign the schema master on an Horizon Connection Server

31 July 2024
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Reading Time: 3 minutes Horizon allows you to configure one or more replica Connection Server instances in a single Connection Server group to provide both more performance and more resiliency. This configuration use the Microsoft Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services (AD LDS), formerly known as Active Directory Application Mode (ADAM). AD LDS has some similar aspects of the traditional Active Directory, for example the LDAP schema, the replication across servers, and the master node concept.

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STS Signing Certificates are about to expire on vCenter Server

30 July 2024
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Reading Time: 3 minutes The vCenter Server Security Token Service (STS) is a Web service that issues, validates, and renews security tokens. As a token issuer, the Security Token Service (STS) uses a private key to sign the tokens and publishes the public certificates for services to verify the token signature. vCenter Server manages the STS signing certificates and stores them in the VMware Directory Service (vmdir). Tokens can have a significant lifetime, and historically might have been signed by any one of multiple keys.

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VMware ESXi 8.0 Update 3 is now in GA

26 July 2024
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Reading Time: < 1 minute On month ago VMware released the VMware vSphere 8.0 Update 3 with vCenter Server 8.0 Update 3 release instead is a General Availability (GA), but with  ESXi 8.0 Update 3 release is an Initial Availability (IA). Now finally also ESXi 8.0 Update 3 is in General Availability (GA) so that we can consider almost ready for production.

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