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ReliableDR for VMware vSphere – Disaster recovery solution for SMB, Enterprises and Cloud Providers

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ReliableDR for VMware vSphere is a product that offers very interesting orchestration, automation and replication capabilities, but most importantly, automation of the whole DR testing and validating process. ReliableDR has been designed especially for VMware vSphere.  The product was acquired just recently by PHD Virtual and further enhanced in the 3.1 release which has just come out. Reliable […]

How to upgrade VDP – Upgrading vSphere Data Protection with the Upgrade ISO

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VMware Data Protection released recently has fixed several bugs and introduced several new features, like restore rehearsal – a feature that you might know from VDR. Another feature adds is the ability to clone backup jobs, or the possibility to configure some post tasks behavior like for example, automatically power on or reconnect a specific virtual NIC. How to upgrade […]

Veeam 7 Tape Support

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Veeam has announced another killer feature for their upcoming product – Veeam Backup & Replication 7. The feature is called Backup to Tape. This was one of the major feature which was missing, compared to traditional backup products for physical environments. As devices, all tape devices (Tape Libraries, Virtual Tape Libraries (VTL), or Standalone Drives) […]

Microsoft Sharepoint Explorer – Another Cool Feature comming up in V7 of Veeam Backup & Replication

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Veeam has announced Veeam Sharepoint Explorer feature to be present in the upcoming version of Veeam Backup & Replication. Cool Feature for Sharepoint admins, which will be present in the upcoming V7 of Veeam Backup & Replication. The Sharepoint Explorer brings the possibility to navigate through Sharepoint DB and restore directly documents from there, or […]

Nakivo Backup & Replication 3.0 released – bringing FLR support

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Nakivo Backup and Replication 3.0 has been released today and brought in an indispensable feature for every viable virtualization backup solution out there – a File Level Recovery (FLR). Without this feature you, IT admin, can’t live. Or will have to have different backup solution (usually in guest) that enables you to recover individual files […]

VMware VDP Advanced Now Available – how it compares to other backup products?

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VMware vSphere Data Protection Advanced Version is GA. VDP Advanced is a new product is an enhanced version of VDP and I already reported on that few weeks back during the announcement. The VDPA scales up to 8Tb of deduplication storage as well as 400 VMs per VDP appliance. The product is sold separately with Per Physical CPU […]

Veeam 7 Release Date – with vCloud Director Support

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Update: Veeam Backup & Replication v 7.0 Released! Veeam 7 has been announced during VMware Partner Exchange, but Veeam 7 Release Date is announced for the Q3, so I would say during VMworld 2012 this summer. As the product evolves, it adds more and more functions for the end users. The version 7 will bring vCloud director […]

Zerto Virtual Replication 3.0 Announced

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Zerto announced version 3.0 of their Hypervisor replication software Zerto Virtual Replication 3.0. The latest release adds several enhancements and new features. One of them is the extension of disaster recovery for Remote Offices or environments managed with a single vCenter server. This is quite good news since many smaller clients only runs single vCenter and […]

WordPress Security Tips

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I wanted to share some WordPress security tips. Usually, after you first install WordPress, you configure your WP installation and installs some plugins. You should also make sure that your WP blog is secure enough otherwise you might expose yourself for being hacked. 1. Use Simple Login Lockdown This plugin allows you to get protected […]