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Security
Critical bugs of Intel Processors revealed. AMD and ARM chips are also affected.
What’s All the Fuss About the Intel Bugs? At the beginning of this year, Google’s Project Zero made a bombshell of an announcement: they had discovered critical security flaws affecting Intel central processing units (CPUs) produced since 1995. Due to…
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Backup Software
What is VembuHIVE Cloud File System?
One of the great players today in the backup space providing powerful tools for backing up both physical, virtual, and cloud workloads is Vembu. Vembu provides a wide variety of tools to enterprises today to empower flexibility and agility in…
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VMware
Roll Back VMware Meltdown and Spectre Microcode Patch
Update 1.24.2018 with William Lam PowerCLI code link The last several days have certainly been a rollercoaster ride for VMware administrators and others who have been keeping a close eye on the latest news related to Meltdown and Spectre. There…
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vSphere 6.5
Configure VMware vSphere Encryption Key Management Server Cluster
One of the exciting features with vSphere 6.5 is the ability to perform virtual machine encryption. We have already taken a look at Hytrust KeyControl as a great way to perform virtual machine encryption. When thinking about virtual machine encryption…
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VMware
Delete VMware Distributed Virtual Switch The Resource Is In Use
Recently, in working with the home lab environment, moving hosts around, playing around with various networking, etc, I ran into an issue with a distributed virtual switch (DVS) I had configured. The problem started with a host that was forcibly…
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VMware
VMware Performance Impact of Meltdown and Spectre Patches
Update 3.20.2018 – VMware has released vSphere 6.5 U1G which has a newly released microcode update Update 1.17.2018 – Firmware Updates and Initial Performance Data for Data Center Systems Update 1.13.2018 – Due to recent Intel sighting VMware now recommending…
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Backup Software
Vembu BDR Suite 3.9 New Features
Vembu has recently announced the upcoming release of Vembu BDR Suite 3.9. Vembu continues to innovate in their already very full-featured, all-inclusive backup product. Vembu’s BDR Suite product covers data protection for all types of workloads including, physical, virtual, and…
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home lab
10 Gig Switch for Home Lab
For quite a while now, I have been wanting to get the lab up to 10 gig connectivity especially for purposes of vMotion, vSAN, etc. Unfortunately, 10 gig ports are still relatively expensive although they have come down in recent…
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Workstation
Perform Live Backups of VMware Workstation Virtual Machines
There are many products out there that support live backups of enterprise hypervisors such as VMware ESXi and Microsoft Hyper-V and others. However, you are hard pressed to find a product that is able to perform live backups of VMware…
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Security
New Intel Design Flaw is VMware Affected?
Update 1.11.2018 – Script from William Lam to check VMs and Hosts/Clusters ***Update 1.9.2018 – VMware releases CPU microcode update as part of hypervisor-assisted guest remediation with VMware Security Advisory VMSA-2018-0004, new Hypervisor-Assisted Guest Mitigation for branch target injection (52085) ***Update 1.6.2018 with…
