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VeeamON 2025

19 April 2025
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteVeeamON is the annual big event from Veeam (actually only in the US) focused, of course, on Veeam products, services and solution, but that has become an importan event that cover data protection, data security, data resilienct, data availability, and cloud data management aspects. If you want to remain updated and learn how to improve your business contiunuity, hear all the news of Veeam’s world and meet the entire Veeam’s ecosystem and event sponsors this event is definitely the right choice for you.

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ESXi free is back!

11 April 2025
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Reading Time: 2 minutesOne year ago, Broadcom killed the Free vSphere Hypervisor, but now, with the last VMware ESXi 8.0 Update 3e, the free (and limited) version is back again! Broadcom makes again available the VMware vSphere Hypervisor (the entry-level and free hypervisor). To download the free ESXi, you still need to login in the Broadcom Support Portal, but now you don’t need anymore any license entitlement.

VMware

VMware certification retirements (March 2025)

31 March 2025
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteAs usual, there have been several retirement announcements made for VMware exam and certification retiring because they are becoming outdated. The following exams and certifications are retiring June 30, 2025. No new exam registrations will be available after March 30, 2025.

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How to configure a proxy for Veeam components

25 March 2025
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Reading Time: 3 minutesVeeam Backup & Replication has different components/toles and not necessary each of them has direct access to the Internet. From a security point of view it could be a good idea segregates all Veeam components as much as possible. For this reason you may need to configure a HTTP/HTTPS Proxy, but the funny part is that you cannot found any related option from the Veeam Console. And if you expect that the browser proxy settings are used, you are wrong.

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VMware vSphere become less SMB friendly

23 March 2025
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Reading Time: 2 minutesDuring those years post Broadcom acquisition of VMware, the VMware vSphere product has become more and more unfriendly for the SMB market. The product editions and pricing have totally changed: no more the Free vSphere Hypervisor, no more Essential and Essential+ bundles, no more perpetual licenses… Note that, in April 2025, Broadcom has reintroduced again an edition of ESXi free! Also download the products will become more “complicated”.

VMware

RVTools web site has been hacked

22 March 2025
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Reading Time: 2 minutesSome days ago, the official site for RVTools has been hacked and the installer for the popular VMware environment reporting utility has been compromised to deliver Bumblebee Malware. The official web sites, Robware.net and RVTools.com, are currently offline to avoid any additional distribution of this malware.

DellTechnologies

Veeam Backup & Replication 12.3.1 with a security fix

19 March 2025
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Reading Time: 5 minutesVeeam has just released a new build for Veeam Backup & Replication 12.3.1.1139. You can check the installed build number in the Veeam Backup & Replication Console’s Main Menu (≡) under Help > About. The first reason of this release if to fix the CVE-2025-23120 issue: a vulnerability allowing remote code execution (RCE) by authenticated domain users. This issue is critical and has a CVSS v3.1 Score  of 9.9!

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