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Nakivo Backup & Replication 3.0 released – bringing FLR support

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Nakivo Backup and Replication 3.0 has been released today and brought in an indispensable feature for every viable virtualization backup solution out there – a File Level Recovery (FLR). Without this feature you, IT admin, can’t live. Or will have to have different backup solution (usually in guest) that enables you to recover individual files […]

VMware VDP Advanced Now Available – how it compares to other backup products?

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VMware vSphere Data Protection Advanced Version is GA. VDP Advanced is a new product is an enhanced version of VDP and I already reported on that few weeks back during the announcement. The VDPA scales up to 8Tb of deduplication storage as well as 400 VMs per VDP appliance. The product is sold separately with Per Physical CPU […]

Veeam 7 Release Date – with vCloud Director Support

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Update: Veeam Backup & Replication v 7.0 Released! Veeam 7 has been announced during VMware Partner Exchange, but Veeam 7 Release Date is announced for the Q3, so I would say during VMworld 2012 this summer. As the product evolves, it adds more and more functions for the end users. The version 7 will bring vCloud director […]

Zerto Virtual Replication 3.0 Announced

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Zerto announced version 3.0 of their Hypervisor replication software Zerto Virtual Replication 3.0. The latest release adds several enhancements and new features. One of them is the extension of disaster recovery for Remote Offices or environments managed with a single vCenter server. This is quite good news since many smaller clients only runs single vCenter and […]

WordPress Security Tips

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I wanted to share some WordPress security tips. Usually, after you first install WordPress, you configure your WP installation and installs some plugins. You should also make sure that your WP blog is secure enough otherwise you might expose yourself for being hacked. 1. Use Simple Login Lockdown This plugin allows you to get protected […]

VMware VDP logs – locate and troubleshoot

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When you need to troubleshoot backups in error state, you need to go to see the logs. VMware VDP logs are simple to access and locate. To find the VDP logs, just login to the VDP appliance by going to: https://IP_OF_VDP:8543/vdp-configure/ And from there you can download the logs to your workstation or from where […]

VMware vSphere Data Protection (VDP) Advanced Version

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vSphere Data protection has a bigger brother called VDP Advanced. This advanced version of VDP scales up to 8Tb of deduplication storage as well as 400 VMs per VDP appliance. That’s rather good news (if you’re not using anything else out there for much less) for medium sized companies willing to use that product, but were kind of […]

Veeam Backup And Replication Cloud Edition Released

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Veeam Backup & Replication Cloud Edition has been announced by Veeam Software.  This cloud edition is actually kind of cloud gateway, which present the end user with number of pre-configured profiles to the cloud storage providers like Amazon, Microsoft etc (about 15 cloud providers is supported out of the box). But other profiles can be added […]

Veeam Backup Free Edition does some good compression – video

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Veeam backup Free edition offers great compression ratio. The free version of Veeam product in fact takes only the blocs that are used for the creation of the compressed .vbk file. The whole VM is actually encapsulated (VMDK disks + VMX configuration file) into single .vbk file. The swap file isn’t backed up either. Veeam […]

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