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The Veeam Hardened Repository ISO (VHRISO) is a Managed Hardened Repository...
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The Veeam Managed Hardened Repository is a bootable ISO based on Rocky Linux 9.2 (Blue Onyx) distribution preconfigured by Veeam.
The idea is to dramatically simplify the provisioning experience and improve the security of the hardened repository, with a solutionpre-hardened out of the box with all advanced security settings already applied. This because immutability may be not enough if you configure your repository in a wrong way!
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The Veeam Hardened Repository ISO (VHRISO) is a Managed Hardened Repository delivered as bootable ISO with a Rocky Linux distribution preconfigured by Veeam.
The idea is to dramatically simplify the provisioning experience while eliminating (or at least reducing) the need for any Linux expertise.
But also have an OS pre-hardened out of the box with all advanced security settings already applied. This because immutability may be not enough if you configure your repository in a wrong way! Recommendations are based on Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIGs) created and maintained by the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) for Rocky Linux.
Further, on-going management costs are reduced thanks to both hardened repository components as well as the base OS updates provided directly by Veeam.
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Veeam Threat Hunter is a new feature introduced in Veeam Backup & Replication 12.3 that provides the speed of YARA scans and the breadth of malware detection of a classic antivirus.
But how fast it is? In the Veeam Community somebody declares 3x-6x faster in testing depending on the contents being scanned when testing against Windows Defender.
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After Broadcom completed the acquisition of VMware most of the services hosted on vmware.com domain have been migrated and integrated on broadcom.com domain.
Actually the documentation is still on vmware.com web site, but only for few days.
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In VMware Workstation 17.6.1, when I create a Rocky Linux VM, there is no way to enable UEFI firmware from the GUI.
Only BIOS is selected and UEFI remain grey out:
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Veeam Backup & Replication has several roles and for some of them you can use a Linux OS to implement specific roles.
Considering that CentOS Linux 7 will reach end of life (EOL) on June 30, 2024 will be really important know which versions and which distributions are supported.
And recently has been released Veeam Backup & Replication 12.3 but with minor changes in the Linux OS support. Note that initially (9 December) there was no official support to RHEL or Rocky Linux 9.5!
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During the last Omnissa Online some interesting news and announces where related to the Horizon platform.
The main pillars of Horizon are: true multi-cloud solution, security and experience and apps everywhere.
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