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Zerto Platform 9.7 U1 supports vSphere 8.0

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There has been a new update from Zerto that released their latest flagship software for DR and backup – Zerto Platform 9.7 Update 1. This latest release supports vSphere 8 that many vSphere admins will be installing in the near future and upgrading their virtual infrastructures. We have asked Zerto during VMware EXPLORE Barcelona last […]

StarWind VSAN Latest update allows faster synchronization with storing synchronization journals on separate storage

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New release of popular storage software from StarWind allows Hyper-V users to store synchronization journals on separate storage and dramatically decrease the time of synchronization in case one node goes down due a hardware failure. This StarWind VSAN Latest update can be found here. As you know, StarWind VSAN is a storage solution that can […]

Nakivo Backup and Replication 10.8 With vSphere 8 Support and more

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Nakivo Backup and Replication 10.8 is out and as I announced couple weeks earlier, the software now supports vSphere 8.0, but also adds some interesting new features that we’ll talk about today. We’ll talk about this in today’s post. Nakivo has a lightweight and fast web-based UI that does not get slow like many web-based […]

ESXi 7.x to 8.x upgrade scenarios

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This is the time to upgrade VMware ESXi 7.x to 8.x. No reason to tell you that you should fulfill certain requirements before the actual upgrade. Your environment with your backup/monitoring applications should be fully compatible with VMware ESXi 8.0 and vSphere 8.0. Your hardware should be on VMware HCL etc. You should also do […]

Veeam Bare Metal Recovery Without using USB Stick (TIP)

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This tip comes from Nico Stein, a fellow Veeam Vanguard. I saw his presentation during Veeam Summit 100 in Prague, but I said to myself that I won’t publish it before I test it. And that’s why this post (and a video). In fact, it is good that I tested it by myself because EasyBCD […]

First Backup Vendor with VMware vSphere 8 Support – Nakivo

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Nakivo is the first vendors out there to support the latest VMware vSphere 8 release. It not a surprise because Nakivo is one of the fastest vendors with their release cycles and fastest when it comes to update their flagship product – Nakivo Backup and Replication. However, the vSphere 8 support, for now, it’s only […]

VMware Cohesity vExpert Gift VMware EXPLORE 2022 Barcelona

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It has been a great surprise when Corey Romero (@vCommunityGuy) asked me to if I had already picked up my vExpert gift while I was at the blogger’s area within VMware EXPLORE 2022 Barcelona. In fact, for my part, I completely missed the announcement about the gift and as such, I don’t even think that […]

vSphere 8 – How to move from Host Profiles to vSphere Configuration Profiles

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If you haven’t heard yet, vSphere 8 brings a new way to mass manage host configuration – via vSphere Configuration Profiles. Instead of using Host profiles, the way forward you’ll be using vSphere Configuration Profiles. But, there is a big but so don’t get too excited yet. The thing is that the vSphere Configuration Profiles […]

How to Add a Physical Server and create a first backup with Nakivo Backup and Replication Software

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Nakivo Backup and Replication is a software that helps to back up your data, and your VMs with databases, physical servers, SaaS applications (Microsoft 365), and workloads running in public clouds (Azure, Amazon EC2, and S3). You can also use Nakivo to backup file shares that is located on a physical server or in a […]