Veeam Backup & Replication 13, the next next major release, will be pro...
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The Veeam Hardened Repository ISO (VHRISO) is a Managed Hardened Repository...
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VMware Explore is the new brand name of VMworld event: from cloud infrastructure to the software-defined edge to Private AI innovation, you’ll gain perspective, find answers, and see what’s possible with the right cloud solutions.
But why attend at this kind of events?
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VMware Explore is the new brand name of VMworld event, and as usual, after the US edition there will be an EU edition. VMware Explore 2024 EU will be at Barcelona from 4th to 7th November!
From cloud infrastructure to the software-defined edge to Private AI innovation, you’ll gain perspective, find answers, and see what’s possible with the right cloud solutions.
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Linus Torvalds announced today the release and general availability of Linux kernel 6.10, the latest stable version of the Linux kernel (available on kernel.org) that introduces several new features and improvements.
As always, there are many other features, new drivers, improvements and fixes. For a complete list see this post and this post.
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VMware® vCenter Converter Standalone provides an easy-to-use solution that automates the process of creating VMware virtual machines from physical machines (running Windows and Linux) and from other virtual machine formats.
Actually the most recent version remain the Converter 6.6 updated on Feb, 22 2024.
Considering that one of my most requested article was VMware Converter guest OS support, I decide to make an updated version.
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VMware vSphere 8.0 Update 3 is the final release to support Integrated Windows Authentication (IWA) in VMware SSO as explained in the VMware KB 314324 (Removal of Integrated Windows Authentication).
Note that also all IWA related functionalities like Windows Session Authentication (SSPI) will be removed in a future ESXi release!
IWA was deprecated in vSphere 7.0 and wth vSphere 8.0 GA there was a warning message during the vCenter upgrade:
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Veeam Backup & Replication 12 supports different malware detection methods that works in different way and can be used together to reach different scopes. Note: new features have been added in version 12.3!
The first main diffecence is that some works inline (during the backup process on the source data) and other works with a post-processing directly on restore points saved on the repositories.
For this reason also the load of those malware detection activities can be on different Veeam components, basically on the proxy servers for inline methods and the mount servers for the post-processing methods.
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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.
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