New update from Veeam today as the company has just released Veeam Backup and Replication 9.5 U4a. You can download the latest patch slipstreamed into the main ISO image here. It is a build 9.5.4.2753) which has 4.9 Gb in size as it also includes all the tools and agents (Windows and Linux). The new […]
VMware Essential PKS Launched
VMware Essential PKS is a Kubernetes based system which allows you to automatically deploy and manage containers and containerized applications. VMware has had already fully supported Kubernetes with VMware Integrated OpenStack since 2017 where we have reported on VMware Integrated Openstack 4.0 during VMworld 2017, however this time, the offering is more compete after their […]
StarWind Storage Gateway for Wasabi Released
StarWind innovates with StarWind Storage Gateway for Wasabi. What’s this? Let’s have a look. As you might know, Wasabi is a cloud storage company which was founded by the creator of Carbonite, a popular backup solution. We have reported on StarWind VTL for Veeam and AWS a while in the back and it looks that instead […]
What is Host Guardian Service?
I stumbled across this by reading about Windows Server 2019, it is a Host Guardian Service (HGS), which is responsible for providing attestation and key protection services that enable Hyper-V to run Shielded virtual machines. This “Host Guardian Service” (HGS) was introduced in Windows Server 2016 actually, and since that time, it’s possible to run shielded VMs (VMs […]
Vembu BDR Suite 4.0 Product Review
Vembu Backup and Disaster Recovery Suite (BDR Suite) 4.0 has been released a few months ago and this review will try to give you an idea what to expect when you try and install this product in your environment. First of all, this is a sponsored review, but it does not mean that I will […]
Veeam Availability Suite 9.5 Update 4 Released with vSphere 6.7 U1 and Server 2019 Support
Veeam has recently released a major update to its product line. Veeam Backup and Replication 9.5 Update 4 and also VeeamONE 9.5 Update 4. Both products are part of Veeam Availability Suite 9.5 Update 4, and they bring some major features. Anton Gostev says via his newsletter, “This is definitely the biggest release in the […]
What is VMware Cloud Foundation?
VMware Cloud Foundation has recently released 3.5 version, but some of our readers might don’t know What is VMware Cloud Foundation? As we reported in our post during VMworld Barcelona 2018, VMware Cloud Foundation is an integrated software stack, with compute virtualization (VMware vSphere), storage virtualization (VMware vSAN), network virtualization (VMware NSX), and cloud management and monitoring […]
What is Veeam Cloud Connect And How To Setup?
I don’t think that I have written about Veeam Cloud Connect yet, so this is the post about What is Veeam Cloud Connect? It’s simple. Veeam works with many service providers who allocate some space at their local infrastructures. Veeam customer can then specify this space as a backup target and use it as a remote […]
VMware vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) – Manage Firewall Settings
VMware vSphere 6.7 has introduced a firewall management for the VMware vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA). The firewall options allow you to create new firewall rules or edit some existing firewall rules. the feature has been introduced in vSphere 6.7 Update 1. We’ll have a look at all those options in this post – VMware vCenter Server […]
Altaro Community Forums runs on DOJO
Today just an easy post where I’d like to share some news from one of the new backup vendors which are young and dynamic. Just recently, it’s been a nice surprise to find new forums at Altaro. I don’t know where the DOJO name came from but I find it kinda cool. With those icons […]