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Vinchin Backup & Recovery v7.0: What’s New? [SPONSORED]

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The highly anticipated new release 7.0 of Vinchin Backup & Recovery will be coming soon! Numerous new features are coming your way including NAS backup, physical server backup for Linux and Windows servers, VMware backup verification, MariaDB protection and more advanced Hyper-V protection. Here is the quick overview of new features in version 7.0. VMware […]

VCP-DCV on vSphere 8.x Objective 1.3.4 – Describe Storage Policies

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This chapter called VCP-DCV on vSphere 8.x Objective 1.3.4 – Describe Storage Policies comes from our re-write work that we currently do on our VCP-DCV 2023 Study guide page that is based on the vSphere 8.x. VMware vSphere 8 storage policies usually specify which datastores with what functions and specifications to use when placing VMs. […]

VCP-DCV on vSphere 8.x Objective 1.2 – Describe the components and topology of a VMware vCenter architecture

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vCenter server is a central point of vSphere. While your clusters can run and ensure High Availability (HA) in an automated matter, you’ll need vCenter server 8 to configure them. Same for vSphere distributed virtual switches or other components. All those different software components are installed on vCenter, as plugins, as a side-by-side products, but […]

VMware VCP-DCV 2023 Exam based on vSphere 8.x

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VMware has released a new PDF Blueprint for people interested to take a new VCP-DCV 2023 certification exam based on vSphere 8.x. So far, you can still (until Jan 31, 2024) pass the VCP-DCV 2023 based on vSphere 7.x and  (2V0-21.20), which leads to the VMware Certified Professional – Data Center Virtualization 2023. However, a […]

VMware ESXi 8.0b and vCenter Server 8.0b released with resolved issues

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VMware has deployed latest releases of their virtualization platform with ESXi 8.0b and vCenter server 8.0b. That’s one of the first reasons to never deploy the v8.0 in production, rather wait for U1 or U2…. This is the first wave of fixes that resolves different issues with any areas of the virtualization layer, such as […]

Veeam v12 direct backup to Wasabi – New UI

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Veeam Backup and Replication v12 that is now at RTM stage and the official launch went out yesterday, brings so many new features and enhancements that we’ll have many days to come a content for you that you’ll enjoy. The new release of Veeam’s flagship product reached RTM state just a few weeks ago, before […]

What If the way for fighting ransomware was to backup directly to Object storage with immutability On-Prem?

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If you’re an IT administrator and your infrastructure and its data has value for you and your company, then you need to secure those data and your backups. The best way to secure backups is to make them immutable, which means that they cannot be deleted or modified in any way for certain period of […]

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 […]

VMware vExpert and VMUG Advantage Benefits for your career

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VMware vExpert program gives you an unique opportunity for IT admins to get in touch with this amazing community of people which you can get in touch with, learn more about VMware products, get more recognition in your job, and access to some goodies such as VMware 365 Days NFR licenses for your lab, private […]

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