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Microsoft 365 Total Protection review

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Many Microsoft 365 users are running their mailboxes unprotected. Ransomware is on the rise for years – the main gateway to infect systems with ransomware is email. Customers and small companies aren’t simply prepared to face the latest and more sophisticated threads via email. Traditional antivirus solutions are usually too late to treat viruses and […]

What’s New in Vinchin Backup & Recovery v6.5

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Vinchin Backup & Recovery v6.5 continues to deliver next-generation innovative data protection solutions for enterprise-grade virtualization users with a bunch of new backup techniques being involved, empowering business digitalization with advanced backup and restore performance. What’s New? Multi-tenant Backup Solution for MSPs Vinchin Backup & Recovery v6.5 provides multi-tenant management mode for managed service providers […]

How to update StarWind VSAN for VMware vSphere

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StarWind releases updates on a regular basis of their VSAN software. Admins that are running StarWind VSAN in their environments have to keep their infrastructure patched and up-to-date. As such, part of their job is to make sure that the software is updated. In this post, we’ll walk you through the update process of StarWind […]

All VMware Products Promo Black Friday

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There are significant savings that can be made when looking for the purchase of VMware software during the upcoming Black Friday period Nov 24th to Dec 3rd. If you want to save 15, 30 or even 40% just check out the different deals. Basically, most of the VMware products. Workstation and Fusion are at 30% off, […]

Zerto Virtual Replication 9 adds Immutability and Instant Restore from long-term retention repository

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Zerto 9 added more features for resiliency, security, and automated VM protection. The Zerto Virtual Replication software is maturing but still innovating to integrate more public cloud offerings and enhance the backup capabilities of the product. Version 9 of Zerto also introduces a possibility to backup your VMs to any cost-effective S3 compatible storage, whether […]

How to configure automatic storage rescan in StarWind VSAN for VMware vSphere

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After deploying StarWind VSAN for VMware vSphere, whether you do that for testing or for another deployment, you have to make sure that the shared StarWind datastore is mounted automatically. For this, it’s wise to follow StarWind’s help pages and configure automatic storage rescan within the StarWind VM. StarWind recommends creating a dedicated user on […]

Ultimate Guide to ZFS – Webinar Series from StarWind

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One of our partners, StarWind software, is organizing a series of webinar about ZFS. As you know ZFS file system is a very robust file system used in Linux distros, NAS devices or virtual appliances. It supports many storage protocols, snapshots and has very good resiliency. You can register for the upcoming webinar File Server […]

vSphere Upgrades easier now with Runecast

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Runecast’s latest feature allows vSphere admins to upgrade their infrastructure with more visibility before the upgrade happens. In fact, you can simulate the version of vSphere to which they want to upgrade and see which server and individual components would not be compatible. An ESXi upgrade simulation works along with the VMware automated compatibility check. […]

HostColor Private Cloud better than AWS or Azure

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All my readers know that my blog runs on Hostcolor. Many of them perhaps thinking of going AWS or Azure for their blogs, or their client’s blogs. However, private Cloud-based VMware ESXi service providers are also worth mentioning and are often a better choice because simpler and more cost-effective. The SMB admin has more often […]