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How to backup a Desktop with VMware Mirage

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We have set up our VMware Mirage lab in a series of posts recently. While we could do a simple “All-in-One” box installation, we decided to deploy (almost) full VMware Mirage stack with several management servers, separate Mirage server, and separate File server. You can follow the Mirage series on a dedicated blog page – VMware […]

What is VMware Mirage Driver Library?

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VMware Mirage series continues today with a bit strange topic. Strange just because I did not know much about this topic just few weeks ago. This proves that I’m far from knowing everything even if I follow close VMware technology and hold several VMware certifications. But let’s move forward as VMware Mirage is a very […]

VM Replication for High Availability with Vembu BDR

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Vembu Backup and Disaster Recovery Suite (BDR) isn’t new to our readers. The product can backup virtual or physical workloads with a possibility for recovery of full VMs or individual files within those VMs, Application objects such as SQL Server, Microsoft AD objects and other. It has also a fast restore via Quick VM Recovery. […]

VCSA 6.5 Password Expires in X days Notification – How to change?

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If you don’t change the default VMware vCSA password policy for an administrator within the vSphere.local domain, you will get a notification 30 days before the password expires. This is not the root password of the VCSA appliance. We wrote how to reset root password for VCSA appliance here. (Post include a detailed video too). […]

What is VMware CPU Ready?

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VMware CPU Ready metric is used to see a percentage of time that the virtual machine was ready, but could not get scheduled to run on the physical CPU. CPU ready time is dependent on the number of virtual machines on the host and their CPU loads. Usually, to see the values, an “esxtop” command is […]

VMware Mirage Client Installation and Configuration

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Our guide to VMware Mirage continues today with VMware Mirage Client Installation and configuration. In order for the endpoint to become a managed and backed up, it needs an agent called VMware Mirage Client. It’s a small piece of software which installs on each endpoint, and this software pushes the bits to your Mirage cluster. […]

How To Upgrade Zerto Virtual Replication Appliance (VRA)

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Zerto Virtual Replication 5.0 U3 was released recently and as with every other upgrade, all the Zerto components has to be upgraded. The Zerto Virtual Manager which runs on Windows system upgrades normally with the Update package. However the Zerto Virtual Replication Appliances (VRAs) which runs on every host in the environment has to be […]

What is Veeam Proxy?

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Have you ever wondered what is Veeam backup proxy? Veeam proxy is one of the main components of Veeam Backup and replication. In small environments when installation is “All-In-one” machine, the Veeam Proxy gets installed on the same box as the rest of the components. In larger environments, the backup proxy role is assigned to […]

How To Install VMware Mirage Management Server

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In this post, we will walk you through the installation steps of VMware Mirage Management Server, which is one of the parts. VMware recommends to install Second Mirage Management Server will hold a mirror of MongoDB, installed locally on each Mirage Management Server. So this post will teach us How To Install VMware Mirage Management Server. […]