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Reading Time: 5 minutesQuest’anno sarà ricordato, informaticamente parlando, come dei bug ai microprocessori. Si è iniziato subito ai primi di gennaio con gli annunci dei bug Spectre e Metldown ma poi si è continutato tutto l’anno. Prima per i goffi tentativi di sistemare i bug citati, ma poi anche per l’incombedere di nuove varianti dei bug. Si pensi che si è arrivati a Spectre V4 e V5! Ma è di pochi giorni l’annuncio di un nuovo bug. Di nuovo a livello hardware, di nuovo su processori presenti nel mercato da diversi anni, inclusi ultimi modelli (che ovviamente sono […]

Reading Time: 3 minutesIn the last Veeam Community Forums Digest newsletter there is an interesting note about possible performance issues in VMware vSphere backup based on hot-add transport mode. VMware has confirmed that the increased Hot Add times experienced by some Veeam customers who have installed Veeam Backup & Replication Update 3a and the reason is the latest Virtual Disk Development Kit (VDDK) 6.5 version used in U3a to support also vSphere 6.5 Update 2.

Reading Time: 4 minutesUno dei modi più utilizzati per gestire il backup della VMware vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) era quello di usare una qualunque soluzione di backup a livello di VM. Soluzione semplice, ma non sempre efficace, visto che in caso di corruzione del filesystem o del database embedded, i risultati di un restore a livello di VM potrebbero essere disastrosi, lasciando una VCSA non funzionante. A partire da vSphere 6.5, la VCSA 6.5 ha aggiunto la possibilità di gestire un backup nativo, tramite l’interfaccia di gestione vCenter Server Appliance Management Interface (VAMI). Ma era comunque un’operazione manuale […]

Reading Time: 16 minutesThis is an article realized for StarWind blog and focused on the possible security threats in a virtual environment. See also the original post.

Reading Time: 2 minutesVM Explorer is another backup (and replication) tool with native support for virtualized platforms (vSphere and Hyper-V) with a good success in the SMB segment. Initially was build by a Swiss company (Trilead), acquired later by HP(E) and recently acquired by Microfocus. Lot of changes in the name, but not in the substance and with a good development and release cycles. Now Microfocus has released a new VM Explorer release (v7.1) compatible with the latest version of VMware vSphere 6.7.

Reading Time: 3 minutes Virtual Instruments has announced a new partnership with SANBlaze Technologies, Inc., a pioneer in SAN Emulation and validation technologies and a leading provider of storage solutions for embedded systems. The partnership is centered on bringing NVMe workload modeling and analytics to both enterprise IT and technology vendors through a joint reselling agreement and includes integrations between the WorkloadWisdom and SANBlaze VirtuaLUN products. SANBlaze embedded computing products and high-performance NVMe-over-Fibre Channel emulation systems are deployed in the test and development labs of most major storage hardware and software vendors worldwide. WorkloadWisdom is deployed broadly across both storage technology vendors as well […]

Reading Time: 3 minutesVMware vSphere provides a different way to copy the VM data during a backup operation: those modes are called transport modes. There are at least three major transport mode: network mode (or NBD), hot-add mode (or VM proxy mode), SAN mode (of storage offload mode). Most of the backup products can use those different transport modes depending on the configured infrastructure and the requirements.

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