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Nakivo Backup and Replication 10.2 Released with SharePoint Online backup and S3 Object Lock

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Another big release for Nakivo has just been announced. In fact, they just released another new release of their flagship product Nakivo Backup and Replication 10.2. This product has matured over years and has so many features that most of them will satisfy many admins and service providers. The previous release of Nakivo brought vSphere […]

StarWind HCAs Now with Intel Optane

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StarWind has announced that they are now using Intel Optane in their StarWind HCA appliances. You may wonder how that performs? Well, a while back there was some detailed testing done and a 12 nodes StarWind cluster hit a record of 26.8 million IOPS. We have reported on this here. Intel Optane is one of […]

Veeam Backup and Replication v11 upcoming details and features

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If you have missed Veeam Live where all those features were announced, don’t worry. We’ll take care of it in this article where we’ll show you some of the new features of Veeam Backup and Replication v11. Update: Veeam Backup and Replication 11 has been released. Announce here. There are too many to include them […]

VMware ESXi FREE and incremental backups

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In today’s post we’ll talk about a solution for VMware ESXi Free version incremental backups. Fairly often those people are facing problems to be able to back up their VMs on regular basis by using incremental backups. There is a Free backup solution called VMCom backup that can be used for the job. ESXi free […]

VMware Black Friday with up to 30% Off – Check it out

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VMware Black Friday has just started. Selection of products has up to 30% off the price (20% for upgrades). Whether you’re waiting for a price drop on VMware Workstation 16 or Fusion. It’s happening now and this weekend. It is usually only once a year. Workstation and Fusion with 1-year support entitle you to a […]

VMcom Backup for VMware

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Update: Unfortunately, the product is no longer available for new clients. Existing clients continue to get support, but the development has stopped because the main partner has left the group. As I already reported, VMcom Backup is a very simple backup product for VMware vSphere or ESXi hosts (even Free version) that is quite new […]

StarWind VSAN for VMware – New Build Released

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StarWind keeps updating its core product – StarWind VSAN for VMware. For the VMware version, StarWind VSAN uses a Linux appliance that has been updated with the latest Linux Kernel and while most of the updates were small fixes only, there are also some new features such as an option to use the SMB share […]

Zerto 8.5 Released – Test it out!

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Zerto 8.5 went out recently after the announcement a couple of weeks back. We have covered the new features and functions in our detailed post here, but let’s just recap the principal updates. Zerto’s updates have been solid recently and the original replication software is now much better positioned as data protection for workloads in […]

What are StarWind OEM Solutions?

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If you’re a regular reader of ESX Virtualization Blog, you know probably that StarWind VSAN is highly available storage for VMware or Microsoft hypervisors and other great software products and tools. What you might don’t know is the fact that StarWind has also an OEM offering which might be your interest if you run a […]