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How to update StarWind VSAN – VMware or Hyper-V

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If you’re running StarWind VSAN, from time to time you’ll need to update the solution. As you know, StarWind VSAN can be used for many different solutions and not only as a shared storage for VMware vSphere or shared-nothing shared storage for Hyper-V. StarWind VSAN is a software-defined storage solution that is able to provide […]

Tips and Tricks for VMware EXPLORE 2022

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I’m sure you’re not new to the conferences. If yes, keep reading. The fact that the global pandemic situation is finally getting better, opens doors again for in-person events and IT conferences like we use to have before. VMware EXPLORE (previously VMworld) is one of the biggest events. In this post we’ll try to sum […]

How to setup VMware vRealize Log Insight

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VMware vRealize Log Insight (VRLI) is a monitoring application that is able to ingest syslog data and analyze it and make it easily consumable. In this post we will show you how to setup VMware vRezalize Log Insight 8.8 on VMware vSphere 7. vRealize Log insight can also ingest files such as logs or Windows […]

Veeam Immutable Backups – Your protection against Ransomware

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To win the war against ransomware, you must protect not only your IT infrastructure but also your backup files themselves. If hackers get in and encrypt all your data including your backup files, you’re ready to capitulate. So what’s your ultimate backup files protection? It’s called Immutability and it means “impossibility to delete”. In this […]

Best Desktop Performance Optimization Utility – VMware OS Optimization Tool

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VMware has productized one of their best Flings – VMware OS Optimization Tool (OSOT). If you have been around a long time enough you certainly remember this tool as a Fling, but no more. VMware has officially made it available within the Customer Connect portal. I think this tool is one of the Best Desktop […]

Veeam Backup and Replication 12 (BETA) – adding Hardened Linux Repository

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This is our second post about the latest Veeam Backup and Replication 12 (BETA 2) where we’ll be adding a hardened Linux repository as a backup target. In our first post we have proceeded with an installation of Veeam Backup and Replication 12 on the Windows Server system and created/restored our first backup. Now it’s […]

Quickly setup a Veeam immutable repository via this GitHub Script

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In this post, we’ll be testing a setup that eases the job of creating a Veeam Immutable repository on a Ubuntu Linux system. We have already published a post where we went through the manual steps here, so today it should be even easier. A Veeamhubrepo community script is a GitHub script provided via MIT […]

OSBoxes has tons of FREE preinstalled Linux VM Images in VMware or Virtual Box format for download

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I just wanted to quickly share my find and at the same time give heads up to the project from OSBoxes.org where you can find many FREE preinstalled Linux VM images for download. In fact, I have counted roughly 55 different preinstalled Linux distributions. The VM images are either in VMware or Virtual Box formats. […]

Altaro Backup and Replication Review

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Altaro VM backup is easy to implement, manage, and maintain. You can back up and replicate your VMware and Hyper-V VMs locally, across WAN, or to one of the cloud provider’s storage accounts supported (AWS, Azure, or Wasabi). The backups are very efficient as only changed data gets sent to your backup repository from where […]