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Reading Time: 2 minutesVMware vSphere ships with many metrics and properties. If we take object by object, and document metrics by metrics, it will be both dry and theoretical. You will be disappointed as it does not explain how your real world problems are solved. You’re not in the business of collecting metric. Iwan ‘e1’ Rahabok made an impressive book on VMware vSphere Metrics and now is at its 4th edition!
Reading Time: 2 minutesLike 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 […]
Reading Time: 3 minutesBackup content can be safe during the backup, but maybe there are some security threads that are not yet been identify (like 0-day attack) or maybe the backup data are corrupoted (like guest filesystem corruption). SureBackup is the Veeam technology that allows you to test machines backups and check if you can recover data from them. You can verify any restore point of a backed-up machine. For SureBackup, Veeam Backup & Replication uses a regular image-based backup. SureBackup job can operate in two different recovery verification modes:
Reading Time: 3 minutesIf 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.
Reading Time: 3 minutesVMware 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.
Reading Time: 2 minutesBackup 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.
Reading Time: 3 minutesHorizon 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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