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Reading Time: 2 minutesNote: this article has been updated by Linux versions supported by Veeam Backup & Replication (December 2024). 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.
Reading Time: 3 minutesCentOS Linux was a freely available, community-supported Linux distribution that was developed, distributed, and maintained by the CentOS Project community contributors. It was derived based from Red Hat Enterprise Linux sources and released in alignment with the Red Hat Enterprise Linux production release cycle. For this reason was a great alternative to Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Note that CentOS Linux is not a Red Hat product and does not have Red Hat support. But in 2020, The CentOS Project, in coordination with Red Hat, announced that it would shift full investment to CentOS Stream, the upstream […]
Reading Time: 4 minutesOmnissa Horizon require an exteral database server to store the different events. The event database stores information about VMware Horizon 8 events as records in a database rather than in a log file. The different connection servers store some information, but if you want to see all the historical events from the Horizon management interface you need to configure an external event database.
Reading Time: 2 minutesDuring the last VeeamON event, one of the interesting announces was the possibility to run Veeam Backup & Replication Server on a Linux system! This features was required from several year (for example, see this thread) and during those years more and more Veeam roles have been modified to run both on Windows or on Linux. And, by the way, all the appliances used for Veeam Backup for AWS, Azure or GCP are based on Linux!
Reading Time: 2 minutesXZ Utils (formerly LZMA Utils) provides a general-purpose data-compression library plus command-line tools. March 29, 2024 is a day that will hardly be forgotten by the open source community: Andres Freund disclosed his findings about the compromise in the XZ Utils, which would enable an attacker to silently gain access to a targeted affected system. CVE-2024-3094 is a vulnerability discovered in the open-source library XZ Utils that stems from malicious code that was pushed into the library by one of its maintainers.
Reading Time: 5 minutesVMware vSphere has a guest customization feature to change some guest OS setting for VMs that are cloned of deployed from template. For example to change the computer name, network settings, or timezone settings. Customizing guest operating systems helps prevent conflicts that occur if virtual machines with identical settings are deployed, for example conflicts due to duplicate computer names. For Linux based VM there are two diffent type of guest OS customization engines: But which one is used and which could be preferred?
Reading Time: 2 minutesCloud-init is a powerful configuration tools used in several Linux distributions, but his implementation is not always the best. And on some version of Ubuntu Server it’s making the boot slower and it’s annoning with some console messaging, also after the boot phase. There are two different approach to disable cloud-init.
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