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Windows 10 with ReFS For Veeam Backup Repository

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This tip is from Anton Gostev (Veeam) and his newsletter. If you’re not subscribed, this is the only one you should. Except being subscribed to ESX Virtualization too -;). Yes, so Windows 10 users which have already installed the Anniversary Update from Microsoft would be possibly concerned. I say possibly because not all Windows 10 […]

How to Setup an AD Integration with Nakivo Backup and Replication 7

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Nakivo Backup and Replication v7 has introduced integration to the Microsoft’s Active Directory (AD). The vast majority of enterprise customers are using Microsoft AD for resource management, authentication so it’s only a logical step to benefit the integration between Nakivo Product and Microsoft AD. This post will teach you How to Setup an AD Integration […]

VMware vSAN 6.6 Nested Lab Deployment DEMO

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In this post, we’ll explore a new vSAN 6.6 feature allowing you to deploy vSAN via VMware vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) easily to greenfield environments, without the need to allocate a storage space for the VCSA on some temporary local datastore. Note that nested environments are not supported for production environments, but allows a very […]

What is VMware vSAN Affinity for Stretched Clusters

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VMware vSAN 6.6 which has been announced recently, further enhances stretched clusters configuration. The stretched clusters configuration has been part of vSAN since the 2015 release (v6.1). At that time, the stretched cluster configuration was released with fault domain architecture, where Witness is responsible for quorum and voting mechanism during cluster related failures. The Witness […]

How to Restore individual Files from Journal File Level Recovery in Zerto

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Zerto’s technology for replicating VMs without snapshots was detailed quite a few times on our blog. Today, we’ll focus on How to Restore individual Files from Journal File Level Recovery in Zerto. Previously you could already recover a full site, application(s) or VMs, but the additional granularity giving you a possibility to recover files within the Zerto […]

How to Clean Previous Windows Installation Files after latest Windows 10 Update

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As you know, recently Microsoft has started pushing Windows update also called Windows Anniversary Update. It is the 1703 version. This update has brought many new features which has been announced since long time ago. I particularly liked the security enhancements which came with Windows Defender pushing things further with improvements with an independent testing score […]

What is VMware vSAN Disk Group?

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We continue to explore VMware technologies and teach some of the new terminologies that are relatively new for some, but quite old for others. When you think that 3 years ago only, VMware was rolling out vSAN 5.5 and now, they’re just announced the 6th iteration of their popular hyper-converged software solution – VMware vSAN […]

VMware vSAN 6.6 Announced

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The release number of next release VMware vSAN is 6.6. A first thing to mention is that VMware vSAN is no longer tightened to major VMware vSphere releases, which means that starting vSAN 6.6 we will see the progress of vSAN independently on vSphere. VMware vSAN entered already its 6th iteration (correct me if I’m […]

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