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nakivo v10.9 brings bare-metal recovery and more
In this fast-paced and ever-evolving digital landscape, it has become imperative to adopt a proactive approach to data protection. Gone are the days when traditional methods like manually copying files to external drives sufficed. Today, backup software offers a comprehensive and efficient solution that automates the backup process, ensuring the safety and accessibility of your data.
Hot add memory to a kubernetes node VM
Recently I had to increase the memory in a bunch of Kubernetes nodes running on VMware and I wanted to avoid switching off the nodes as it means draining them first which sometimes take quite a bit of time and can get the customer slightly nervous.
Release of BDRSuite v5.6
Data protection and recovery remains a critical component of the SDDC in most organizations as losing data due to an outage with no restore capabilities can have catastrophic consequences. Keeping up with current trends is paramount to Backup vendors as ransomware attacks become more and more sophisticated. Modern cloud services as part of data protection policies offer flexibility and security to ensure a consistent set of the backed up data.
Virtual service shared IP in Cloud Director Kubernetes clusters
In previous blogs, I wrote about running Kubernetes clusters in VMware Cloud Director using the Cluster API provider (CAPVCD) or Cluster API Provider for VMware Cloud Director (quite a mouthful).
What's new in vSphere 8 Update 1
In 2022, VMware rolled out vSphere 8 which brought a number of new features, one of the big ones being vSAN ESA. A few months later, we are already graced with the Update 1 version which we will look at today. Note that this version was only announced and hasn’t reach IA (initial availability) yet. Look up the new release cycle that came with vSphere 8 if you never heard about IA. This new version comes with the usual truckload of nice diagram and marketing wordage such as delivers enhanced value.
Ask questions to ChatGPT in PowerShell
Create an OpenAI API token First we need to create an API key. For that, go to your account profile and click on View API keys Then click Create new secret key Copy the key in the clipboard, you won’t be able to display it again. If you close without copying, you’ll have to create a new one. Now let’s export that key in an environment variable in the Powershell session.
NAKIVO v10.8 Beta improves UX and infrastructure support
The landscape of VM backup solutions vendors has significantly evolved over the last few years with the emergence of cloud computing and modern apps driving innovation. Following its 3 months release cycle, Nakivo recently released the latest Beta v10.8 of NAKIVO Backup & Replication which is available for testing.
What's new in BDRSuite v5.5
Vembu BDR Suite is a complete Backup and disaster recovery solution tailored to protect workloads across Virtual, Physical, on-premises, Cloud services, and SaaS applications. The world of data protection kept gaining traction in the past decade with the rise of cloud services and then the threat of Ransomware. BDRSuite carved a place for the company among the leading backup software vendors for the SMB sector with a robust virtual machine backup and recovery solution.
VMware Cloud Director 10.3 refresh token and how to use them
In the previous release of VMware Cloud Director with VCD 10.3, a number of new features and improvements were introduced around Kubernetes integration, vAPP mobility, VM placement and a lot more. However, what we are talking about here was release in VMware Cloud Director 10.3.1 and offers authenticated users to generate their own API tokens to grant access for automation against VMware Cloud Director.
How to Protect VMware ESXi Hosts from Ransomware Attacks
Historically and like most malware, ransomware has been targeting Windows operating systems primarily. However, cases of Linux and MacOS being infected are being seen as well. Attackers are being more proficient and keep evolving in their attacks by targeting critical infrastructure components leading to ransomware attacks on VMware ESXi. In this article, you’ll learn how Ransomware targets VMware infrastructure and what you can do to protect yourself. What is Ransomware?
Back to basic about DR, BC and HA
Aside from my day job and writing blogs, I teach the odd IT infrastructure courses in universities in the south of France, especially Bachelor degree students. Anyway, I usually get students that are on the junior side in terms of infrastructure knowledge. Data protection and recoverability concepts are often foreign to them and, although I teach a VMware oriented course, I try to incorporate these along other more general and important material to prepare them for real world use cases.
Drive Workforce Adoption with Workspace ONE Office 365
For several years now, the IT landscape has been increasingly favourable to remote working and flexibility in terms of devices, apps and location. In fact, VMware Workspace One has been spearheading the company’s User Endpoint management strategy to achieve an eco-system that is “any app, any device, anywhere”.
Creating the Perfect Homelab for VMware Admins
Working in infrastructure has been a blast since I went down that route many years ago. One of the most enjoyable things in this line of work is learning about cool tech and playing around with it in a VMware homelab project for instance. Running a homelab involves sacrificing some of your free time and dedicating it to learning and experimenting. Now, it is obvious that learning without a purpose is a tricky business as motivation tends to fade quite quickly.
The VMware Admin's Guide to Windows Server 2022 Templates
Unless in very specific use cases, every organization running a VMware infrastructure includes deploying virtual machines such as Windows Server 2022 as part of their operations in order to provide businesses with the resources they need. The easiest way to ensure both fast and efficient delivery is through the use of virtual machine templates.
vSphere 7 Partition Layout Changes
With the release of vSphere 7, VMware partitions are changed in the vSphere 7 layouts to make it more versatile and to allow additional VMware and third-party solutions to be installed on it. The VMware partition sizes in prior versions of vSphere 6.x were fixed and static which may prevent the installation of additional solutions such as vSAN, NSX-T, Tanzu as well as some third-party integrations.
How to Use Tanzu for Free!
Kubernetes is one of the hottest technologies across the enterprise space, and with organizations moving forward with designing modern applications. Many businesses are looking at Kubernetes-powered technologies in redesigning in-house applications, shifting to microservices, improving scalability, and modernizing development across the board. VMware Tanzu is a powerful enterprise Kubernetes platform that allows businesses to have the tools needed to run Kubernetes across clouds.
Enabling Proactive Intelligence and Support with VMware Skyline Advisor Pro
Today, most organizations have extensive infrastructures that span both on-premises, remote sites, and in the cloud. Gone are the days when manual support efforts effectively ensured the infrastructure was operating normally. As virtualized environments have proliferated throughout the enterprise, workloads run on top of sophisticated and advanced infrastructure, requiring proactive monitoring and support processes.
VMware vs Hyper-V - Hypervisor Throwdown | The SysAdmin DOJO Podcast
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VMware vCenter Converter is gone, here's an alternative
vCenter Converter has been a trusty sidekick for many IT administrators over the years, helping them achieve the virtualization of tricky physical workloads. While it is always recommended to deploy a new clean virtual machine, it isn’t always possible due to licensing or compatibility constraints with legacy software for instance. As you may have read recently, VMware removed vCenter Converter from the available downloads.
Setting up Enhanced Linked Mode in vCenter 7.0
VMware vCenter Enhanced Linked Mode (ELM) allows virtual infrastructure admins to connect and manage multiple vCenter Server instances together, through a single pane of glass. By joining vCenter Servers together in Enhanced Linked Mode, they become part of the same Single Sign-On (SSO) domain, allowing administrators to log into any of the linked vCenter Servers simultaneously using a single set of credentials.
VMware Project Capitola: The vSAN of Host Memory?
VMware has continued to innovate in the enterprise datacenter with cutting-edge products that are now household names, such as vSAN and NSX. Over the years, it has transformed how we look at compute, storage, networking, and creating an abstraction layer on top of physical hardware to make these much easier to consume, manage, and tier.
Introduction to VMware Tanzu
The cloud revolution has brought about many changes in the enterprise. Following the microservices cloud model, many organizations are looking to modernize their business-critical applications to have more agility, scalability, high availability, and ease of deployment. However, manually managing containers and containerized infrastructure can be complex and challenging. Kubernetes helps to solve many of the container management challenges.
How to achieve successful Cross vCenter vMotion (XVM)
Workload mobility is a term you’ve probably heard a number of times that got increasingly popular as years go by. Nowadays environments require some level of flexibility regarding the physical location where the virtual machines can run.
Getting started with vRealize Orchestrator 8 (vRO)
Task automation has always been an important discussion topic in IT departments as it offers faster-than-humans’ delivery, ensures consistency, saves us time and reduces the risk of error. vRealize Orchestrator is one of the many workflow engine platforms out there. Contrary to what many people think, vRealize Orchestrator is not limited to VMware integration as it can automate almost anything. Check out our blog for more infrastructure automation topics.
What is the difference between VDI desktop virtualization and virtual machines
There is no question that virtualization has changed the world of computing as we know it. Server virtualization has revolutionized how enterprise organizations run business-critical workloads. Since the age of server virtualization, organizations have consolidated servers into very dense ratios on physical hardware. It has brought about new efficiencies and capabilities. Virtualization has not stopped at the server. It has also revolutionized desktop computing.
Free eBook – PowerCLI: The Aspiring Automator’s Guide Second Edition
Free eBook The Aspiring Automator's Guide SECOND EDITION By Xavier Avrillier Stop looking at scripts online in envy because you wish you could build your own scripts. PowerCLI: The Aspiring Automator’s Guide Second Edition will get you started on your path to vSphere automation greatness! Written by VMware vExpert Xavier Avrillier, this free eBook adopts a use-case approach to learning how to automate common vSphere tasks using PowerCLI.
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