Check for Orphaned Veeam Temporary Snapshots
For those using Veeam Backup & Replication in a vSphere environment perhaps backing up hundreds of virtual machines one of the important housekeeping items you may want to keep a…
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NAKIVO Backup and Replication v7.3 GA released new features
NAKIVO is still blazing a trail with rapid development, aggressive release cycles, and listening to customer input. It is excellent to see a company that is driven for providing what…
How to Security Harden VMware ESXi Hosts
When thinking about security, security hardening is one of the terms we use to describe what we do to reduce the attack surface of a host to make it more…
VMware Hands On Labs Learning Resource
All of us who are virtualization engineers are constantly trying to acquire new skills and polish the skills we already have. If you are like me, you are looking for…
Configure VMware Distributed Switch Private VLANs
Segmented and securing network traffic is an essential part of traffic flows in and out of the virtual environment. Traditionally VLANs have been used as a means of separating broadcast…
Configure Offsite Disaster Recovery Copy
A crucial aspect of disaster recovery is the ability to provide an offsite disaster recovery site. This provides site resiliency. If you lose an entire production site, you can failover…
Keep Veeam Tape Job from Interrupting Production Backups
In data protection, utilizing the 3-2-1 backups rule for production notes (3) copies of your backups, (2) different kinds of medium, and (1) located offsite is best practice. Many enterprises…
Easy SSL Certificates for Lab Environments
In a home lab environment, we often want to test various functionality as we would use in production or otherwise. Nowadays, SSL connectivity is for the most part the standard…
Create High Performance VMware VMs Checklist
Virtualization technology allows us to make the most of the underlying physical hardware like was never possible without using a hypervisor. Along with virtualizing hardware, it has introduced some very…
Increase VMware Backup Performance
When thinking about backups, we may not first think about backup performance, however, it is an important aspect of consideration with any data protection solution. Backup performance can impact both…