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Hyper-V
Backup Hyper-V clusters with Nakivo
Nakivo Backup & Replication provides a powerful means to backup multiple hypervisors including VMware, AWS instances, and also Microsoft Hyper-V environments. Especially cool with the Hyper-V support is the ability to protect Hyper-V Failover Cluster environments. This functionality was introduced…
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Backup Software
Veeam SQL Transaction Log Backups
Veeam Backup & Replication provides powerful features for backing up virtual environments. One of these features is the ability to provide application aware backups. Application aware backups allow organizations to maintain transactional consistency in backups of virtual machines housing applications…
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NSX
What is VMware NSX SpoofGuard
VMware NSX includes many great features that help to bolster an organization’s security posture at a network level. It allows the abstracting of network and security functionality from the underlying physical network infrastructure. We often talk about microsegmentation with VMware…
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vSphere 6.5
Upgrade Dell VMware ESXi 6.0 Cluster to 6.5 U1 with VUM
With many today either upgrading or planning on upgrading their VMware vSphere 6.0 generation clusters to 6.5 Update 1, most are probably starting to form a game plan to get clusters upgraded. Of course, the first thing that has to…
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Hyper-V
Hyper-V backups saved state vs child VM snapshots
When thinking about backing up Hyper-V workloads, we want to consider the mechanisms that can be used to perform the backup of the virtual machines. Hyper-V can use two means for backing up virtual machines – the “saved state method”…
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Backup Software
Vembu BDR Suite Unlimited Free Backups
Vembu is quickly becoming recognized in the industry as a software company offering a tremendously powerful suite of products all in one pane of glass for backing up virtual, physical, and cloud infrastructure. Vembu’s BDR Suite products allows functionality for…
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VDI
Manage Thin Clients between sites using ThinMan Repeater
We have already taken a look at the powerful automatic configuration and zero config capabilities of Praim ThinMan server as well as the manual management features that it provides. Such capabilities including automation of configuration using the ThinMan Profile Manager…
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vSphere Integrated Containers
Upgrade VMware vSphere Integrated Containers VIC Appliance
For those who are running the vSphere Integrated Containers appliance in your vSphere environment getting your feet wet with VIC, we saw the release of VIC 1.2 in conjunction with VMWorld 2017 and now just a couple of days ago…
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home lab
Change BBU and RAID Cache Settings with Avago LSI StorCLI
We have covered the functionality before of the Avago LSI StorCLI utility and its capabilities in controlling and interacting with Avago LSI RAID controllers. Just about anything you can do from the RAID BIOS can be done from the StorCLI.…
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vSphere 6.5
Monitor and Troubleshoot VMware vCenter Server VCSA Performance
At times we run into performance or other issues with VMware vCenter Server or we want to monitor system resources on the vCenter appliance itself. There are nice new tools built into the new VMware vCenter 6.5 Server VAMI interface…
