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VMware vSphere 6.5 supported by Altaro VM Backup 7.1

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Yes, the news came in yesterday, with the release of Altaro VM Backup 7.1 the company which continues to develop the product has brought in a certain number of new features and enhancements only a few months after a major  7.0 release. Today’s topic – VMware vSphere 6.5 supported by Altaro VM Backup 7.1. Altaro is […]

Three Ways To Determine VM Hardware Version on VMware vSphere

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VMware vSphere keeps evolving. With every new release of VMware vSphere, there is a new VM hardware version introduced and the number increment on regular basis, every two years approximately. Right now with vSphere 6.5 we have the most recent VM hardware version. In today’s post, we will discuss a Three Ways To Determine VM […]

Veeam 3-2-1 Backup Rule Now With Starwind VTL

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A new integration between Veeam and StarWind VTL has been announced during VeeamOn at New Orleans. It’s a new product from StarWind which is a special version of Virtual tape library (VTL) library for AWS, which allows organizations to use this virtual tape library as it was physical tape library. The backup policy stays in […]

VMware vSAN Upgrade Scenarios For Small Clusters

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VMware vSAN, a hyper-converged product from VMware was demoed at VeeamON in New Orleans. I was able to ask few questions Dave Morera from VMware concerning small cluster upgrade options and also about the new protection options for stretched cluster functionality where now it’s possible to specify RAID 5/6 (primary level of FTT) or do not […]

Veeam v10 unveiled at VeemON New Orleans

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Special report: Veeam v10 unveiled at VeemON New Orleans and this is pretty exciting. The general session was good and the demos (for us techies) very useful to understand what’s coming in Veeam v10. The demos started rather bad, but Clint Wyckoff has kept his calm to give a time to the Veeam’s technical staff the time to […]

SysKit Review

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SysKit is a server monitoring software that lets you track servers in real time and provide historical reports about the environment being monitored. The product is completely agentless, which allows fast deployment and easy maintenance as there is no need to update agents on monitored servers. All information is gathered using default APIs and/or WMI queries. ICA and […]

Windows Internals 7th Edition – New Book

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For IT pros, this might be the book of your choice as it brings some deep insights into Windows Server 2016 and W10 system architecture, processes, threads, memory. Check it out. Whether you are a developer or an IT professional, you’ll get critical, insider perspectives on how Windows operates. And through hands-on experiments, you’ll experience its […]

VMware vSAN Pass-Through vs RAID0 Storage Controller

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This post is a reflection post on possibilities on different scenarios whether you’re using a VMware vSAN certified storage controller supporting pass-through (or also IT Mode or JBOD mode… all this is the same name) or you’re using a storage controller which uses RAID0 only. I said only as it means that it is limited […]