VMware ESXi 8 has dropped the compatibility with a lot of old CPU models, a...
Note: on March 2025 the RVTools web site has been hacked! Verify when you d...
VMware Workstation 14 it's a great product and adds several features from E...
In VMware Workstation 17.6.1, when I create a Rocky Linux VM, there is no w...
Some days ago, the official site for RVTools has been hacked and the instal...
Debian like distributions have a nice option to manage distribution upgrade...
Starting with ESXi 7.0 the partions layout has totally changed, compared to...
The legacy C# vSphere Client for Windows is no more available for vSphere 6...
Veeam Backup & Replication does not have a native integration with "ent...
This is an article realized for StarWind blog and focused on the design and...
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There is a minor bug in Veeam environments: Veeam Backup and Replication self-signed certificate gets expired in 11 months after installation. The Veeam KB 2806 describe the details for this issue.
The certificate is renewed, but Veeam Backup Service still has information about the old one in cache, thus shows the error message.
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Reading Time: 4 minutesThe Dell Boot Optimized Storage Solution (BOSS) is a new option for the installation of the hypervisor part, in a virtualization enviroment, or more important in a hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) host!
The dual SD option was already present in all PowerEdge, also in previous generations, and was a good choice to separate the hypervisor from the disks or simple use diskless based solutions. And was a good option for vSphere ESXi when servers were only used as a compute nodes.
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Hot-add trasport mode is a valuable solution for serveral environment, but is not necessary the fastest (see Slow speed in hot-add transport mode backup) or the best solution.
But for some environments (for example VMware vSAN) it’s the recommended approach.
But in VMware vSphere 6.5 and 6.7 that can be some issues using hot-add on proxy with a huge number of virtual disks.
Note that this issue is resolved in ESXi 6.5 P03 and ESXi 6.7 U1.
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NAKIVO is continuing releasing new versions of its main product, and now, after NAKIVO Backup & Replication v8.0 there is the new v8.1 release which introduces a breakthrough solution for data protection automation.
This latest version of the software revolutionizes the way businesses manage their data protection routines by reducing manual work to a minimum. In addition, v8.1 provides for universal recovery of any application objects.
Reading Time: 3 minutesDuring the last AWS re:Invent 2018, Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced new EC2 Instances (A1) Powered by ARM-based AWS Graviton Processors, which promise cost savings up to 45 percent for certain workloads.
Built around ARM cores and making extensive use of custom-built silicon, the A1 instances are optimized for performance and cost. They are a great fit for scale-out workloads where you can share the load across a group of smaller instances. This includes containerized microservices, web servers, development environments, and caching fleets.
Reading Time: 2 minutesRed Hat has announced that it has acquired NooBaa, an early stage company developing software for managing data storage services across hybrid and multicloud environments.
The addition of NooBaa’s data management technology augments Red Hat’s existing portfolio of hybrid cloud offerings and helps advance Red Hat’s position as a leading provider of open hybrid cloud technologies.
Reading Time: 3 minutesAs you probably know, VMware vSphere Data Protection (VDP) is the builtin “backup solution” for vSphere and was first introduced with vSphere 5.1 (see VDP: the new VDR in vSphere 5.1). But VMware has decided its End of Availability (EOA) and VMware vSphere 6.5 was the last release to include vSphere Data Protection and future vSphere releases will no longer include this product.
VMware want to focusing its investments on vSphere Storage APIs – Data Protection to further strengthen the vSphere backup partner ecosystem that provides better 3rd part native backup products. For sure it’s a great sign for the backup and data protection ecosystem.
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