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Linux Kernel 6.13 released

20 January 2025
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After only few months from Linux Kernel 6.12, Linus Torvalds announced today the release and general availability of Linux kernel 6.13, the latest stable version of the Linux kernel (available on kernel.org) that introduces several new features and improvements. 

It’s mostly some final driver fixes (gpu and networking dominating –
normal), with some doc updates too. And various little stuff all over.
The shortlog is appended for people who want to see the details (and,
as always, it’s just the shortlog for the last week, the full 6.13 log
is obviously much too big).

With this, the merge window for 6.14 will obviously open tomorrow. I
already have two dozen pull requests pending – thank you, you know who
you are.

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Why using Azure Arc to manage Windows Server

18 January 2025
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Microsoft Windows Server 2025 has been released two months ago and has a lot of new features. But do you know Azure Arc can add more features and capabilitiers to your Windows Server?

Azure Arc simplifies governance and management by delivering a consistent multicloud and on-premises management platform.

Azure Arc provides a centralized, unified way to:

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Are you ready for Veeam Backup & Replication 13?

17 January 2025
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Veeam Backup & Replication 13, the next next major release, will be probably available in H2 2025 and most of the new features are already published and commented.

But you should be prepared, because, like each new major release (and sometimes also minor release), it will drop support for older platform and software versions and will also deprecase some old features and accelerate vacating discontinued features.

The reason, as Gostev commented in this post, is to don’t spread QA resources too thin as new OS versions come out. In addition, this simplifies the implementation of new features and enables to create more efficient and secure code. Finally, this improves overall platform security by disabling the ability to connect to outdated and long unpatched OS and applications.

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Malware detection methods in Veeam Backup & Replication 12.3

8 January 2025
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With Veeam Backup & Replication 12.3, the malware detection methods have been improved compared with 12.1 version.

The different malware detection methods are similar, they work in different way and can be used together to reach different scopes, but now there are more options.

As previous, 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. They provide different type of results.

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VMware ESXi 8 partitions layout

7 January 2025
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Starting with ESXi 7.0 the partions layout has totally changed, compared to previous versions.

And also the disk requirements have changed… you cannot install anymore on a very small disk (less than 4 GB) and the minimum required size is 32 GB. A big change, considering that before was possible install ESXi with less than 1 GB!

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Veeam Managed Hardened Repository installation and configuration

6 January 2025
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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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Veeam Hardened Repository ISO

5 January 2025
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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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