Iperius backup is now fully compatible with VMware ESXi 7.0 and vSphere 7.0. Iperius is an Italian company that is very active with new updates. They just released a new update to make their product, Iperius Backup 7.0.8 compatible with ESXi 7.0 and vSphere 7.0. Update: Iperius Backup 7.1 is out. New: Hyper-V restores of […]
Iperius Backup 7.0 – Incremental and Differential backup of Hyper-V (RCT)
Iperius backup is known for its small footprint and a possibility to backup VMs running on VMware ESXi. Iperius is the only backup software I know which is able to backup VMs running on the Free version of ESXi. This new release of Iperius Backup 7.0 brings also Incremental and differential Hyper-V backups, features that […]
New Book – Bitlocker for IT Admins
A fellow blogger and book author Xavier Genestos released a new book called Bitlocker for IT Admins. Like every year he kindly asks me to write a small post about that. This year he wrote about Bitlocker technology from Microsoft and how it can help IT, administrators, to secure their data. The book is in […]
StarWind Free NVMe-oF Initiator for Windows
StarWind just released new free product. It’s called NVMe-oF Initiator for Windows and it’s completely free. Not so long time ago we have written about NVMe Over Fabric (NVMe-oF) protocol in this post – What is NVMe Over Fabrics (NVMe-oF)? and talked about the advantages of lower latency and higher throughput. Remember that this protocol is […]
Windows Server 2019 Essentials vs Standard
The answer is simple. Where Windows Server 2019 Essentials is limited to 25 clients, the standard version is not and depends on a number of Client’s access licenses (CALs) which you buy. In this post we’ll show some basic differences between Windows Server 2019 Essentials vs Standard. The product was previously called “Windows Small Business […]
Windows Admin Center Deep Dive Webinar
Windows Admin Center (WAC) is the new administration tool for Windows Servers. It’s a separate tool which started as Project Honolulu a few years back. Now it clearly makes it one of the top tools to have for Windows infrastructure. There is a Windows Admin Center Deep Dive webinar organized by Altaro, the 9th of […]
How To Migrate Shares and Files with ease by using Microsoft Storage Migration Service – Part 2
today we’ll go and see the steps which need to be done in order to migrate file shares from our old server to a new one. This post will teach you How To Migrate Shares and Files with ease by using Microsoft Storage Migration Service. This is part 2. Please read the Introduction post – How To […]
How To Migrate Shares and Files with ease by using Microsoft Storage Migration Service
Large migrations are not easy and so far, Microsoft did not have an efficient tool to do so. Admins had to use Robocopy at best in order to retain shares, NTFS permissions, and ownership of files and folders. In this post, we will discuss and details How To Migrate Shares and Files with ease by using […]
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 […]
What is Azure File Sync?
With generalization of cloud storage services, many vendors, including Microsoft offers syncing services. In this post, we’ll talk about What is Azure file Sync and what’s the different scenarios for usage. If you’re already using Azure File Sync or you think you know all about this service from Microsoft, you can skip to another post. […]
