VMware ESXi 8 has dropped the compatibility with a lot of old CPU models, a...
VMware ESXi partitions layout includes some old FAT partitions used for the...
The legacy C# vSphere Client for Windows is no more available for vSphere 6...
Debian like distributions have a nice option to manage distribution upgrade...
Like every hardware and software components, before apply a VMware vSphere...
In VMware Workstation 17.6.1, when I create a Rocky Linux VM, there is no w...
One month ago, VMware has released a new branch of the VMware Tools, the ve...
Veeam Backup & Replication 12.3 (build 12.3.0.310) has been recent...
VMware® vCenter Converter Standalone provides an easy-to-use solu...
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In 2020, The CentOS Project, in coordination with Red Hat, announced that it would shift full investment to CentOS Stream, the upstream development platform for upcoming Red Hat Enterprise Linux releases. That mean that will be no more alligned to the production version of Red Hat Enterprise.
As a result, CentOS Linux 7 has reached end of life (EOL) on June 30, 2024.
One of the possible CentOS Linux alternative can be Rocky Linux.
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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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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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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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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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To enhance the commitment to customer satisfaction, VMware (by Broadcom) has just announced the decision of extending the general support period for VMware vSphere 7.x. Originally set as April 2, 2025, the End of General Support (EoGS) date has been extended by 6 months, to October 2, 2025.
This extension of general support period provides customers greater flexibility in planning future upgrades considering that still a lot of customers are using vSphere 7!
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Seems impossible that 13 years ago this blog has started its life (see the first official post: Blog goes live), initially with a different domain name.
In those years I’ve wrote about the VMware but also Veeam, Microsoft, Nutanix products. I’ve followed the grow of the cloud model, the adoption (and evolution) of flash storage and a lot of other technology changes.
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