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Zerto Virtual Replication 3.0 Announced

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: May 7, 2020

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 […]

| Filed Under: Backup Tagged With: Zerto Virtual Replication 3.0

WordPress Security Tips

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: January 11, 2019

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 […]

| Filed Under: Backup Tagged With: Wordpress Security Tips

VMware VDP logs – locate and troubleshoot

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: August 22, 2022

When you need to troubleshoot backups in error state, you need to go to see the logs. VMware VDP logs are simple to access and locate. To find the VDP logs, just login to the VDP appliance by going to: https://IP_OF_VDP:8543/vdp-configure/ And from there you can download the logs to your workstation or from where […]

| Filed Under: Backup Tagged With: VMware VDP logs

VMware vSphere Data Protection (VDP) Advanced Version

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: April 26, 2025

vSphere Data protection has a bigger brother called VDP Advanced. This advanced version of VDP scales up to 8Tb of deduplication storage as well as 400 VMs per VDP appliance. That’s rather good news (if you’re not using anything else out there for much less) for medium sized companies willing to use that product, but were kind of […]

| Filed Under: Backup Tagged With: VMware vSphere Data Protection

Veeam Backup And Replication Cloud Edition Released

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: June 10, 2017

Veeam Backup & Replication Cloud Edition has been announced by Veeam Software.  This cloud edition is actually kind of cloud gateway, which present the end user with number of pre-configured profiles to the cloud storage providers like Amazon, Microsoft etc (about 15 cloud providers is supported out of the box). But other profiles can be added […]

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Veeam Backup Free Edition does some good compression – video

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: November 23, 2015

Veeam backup Free edition offers great compression ratio. The free version of Veeam product in fact takes only the blocs that are used for the creation of the compressed .vbk file. The whole VM is actually encapsulated (VMDK disks + VMX configuration file) into single .vbk file. The swap file isn’t backed up either. Veeam […]

| Filed Under: Backup Tagged With: Veeam Backup Free Edition

What is VMware CTK file format?

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: April 26, 2025

A file with extension CTK can be found by using the VMware datastore browser, in the same folder as other VMDK file, where the VM stores all its files (VMDK, VMX, VMSD, NVRAM….). What is VMware CTK file for? The CTK file is used by Changed Block Tracking (CBT). It lists the block changes made since last backup. […]

| Filed Under: Backup Tagged With: VMware CTK file

Nakivo Backup and Replication for VMware vSphere – New Virtualization Backup Company

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: April 26, 2025

Nakivo is new company, based in Silicon Valley, California. Nakivo has entered the already crowdy VMware vSphere backup eco-system at the end of October 2012. The company came up from stealth mode since few months, but has already achieved VMware Ready status and has it’s product listed at VMware Exchange. Nakivo is also VMware Technology […]

| Filed Under: Backup Tagged With: Nakivo Backup and Replication

How-to reset root password in VDP – VMware vSphere Data Protection

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: April 26, 2025

In this how-to you’ll see How-to reset root password in VDP (vSphere Data Protection). VDP is bundled with vSphere Essentials Plus, so If you’re on this package, you have the possibility to use it and backup your VMs. If you’re on vSphere Essentials, where no backup product is present, I would suggest going with Veeam Backup […]

| Filed Under: Backup Tagged With: how to reset root password vdp

What’s new in VMware SRM 5.1.0.1 and 5.0.2

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: November 23, 2023

Together with the recent release of vCenter 5.1b, there has been new release of VMware Site Recovery Manger (SRM). The SRM 5.1.0.1 is an update for the SRM 5.1 release and the 5.0.2 is an update for the older 5.0.1 release (in case you’re on the release before upgrading to the 5.1.x). SRM 5.0.2 is […]

| Filed Under: Backup Tagged With: VMware SRM 5.1.0.1

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