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Backup Software
NAKIVO Backup and Replication v7.3 GA released new features
NAKIVO is still blazing a trail with rapid development, aggressive release cycles, and listening to customer input. It is excellent to see a company that is driven for providing what customers want to see along with innovation to existing platforms.…
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vSphere 6.5
How to Security Harden VMware ESXi Hosts
When thinking about security, security hardening is one of the terms we use to describe what we do to reduce the attack surface of a host to make it more difficult for it to be compromised in an attack. There…
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VMware
VMware Hands On Labs Learning Resource
All of us who are virtualization engineers are constantly trying to acquire new skills and polish the skills we already have. If you are like me, you are looking for learning resources or trying to find good ways of test…
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VMware
Configure VMware Distributed Switch Private VLANs
Segmented and securing network traffic is an essential part of traffic flows in and out of the virtual environment. Traditionally VLANs have been used as a means of separating broadcast domains and securing traffic from one group/type of traffic from…
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Backup Software
Configure Offsite Disaster Recovery Copy
A crucial aspect of disaster recovery is the ability to provide an offsite disaster recovery site. This provides site resiliency. If you lose an entire production site, you can failover to the secondary DR location and funnel traffic over to…
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Backup Software
Keep Veeam Tape Job from Interrupting Production Backups
In data protection, utilizing the 3-2-1 backups rule for production notes (3) copies of your backups, (2) different kinds of medium, and (1) located offsite is best practice. Many enterprises are still utilizing a tape backup rotation to achieve the…
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home lab
Easy SSL Certificates for Lab Environments
In a home lab environment, we often want to test various functionality as we would use in production or otherwise. Nowadays, SSL connectivity is for the most part the standard when it comes to connecting to any type of web…
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VMware
Create High Performance VMware VMs Checklist
Virtualization technology allows us to make the most of the underlying physical hardware like was never possible without using a hypervisor. Along with virtualizing hardware, it has introduced some very interesting challenges with building virtual machines for high performance applications. …
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Backup Software
Increase VMware Backup Performance
When thinking about backups, we may not first think about backup performance, however, it is an important aspect of consideration with any data protection solution. Backup performance can impact both RPO and RTO values and these are extremely important when…
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Windows 10
Installing Windows 10 Pro for Workstations
Recently, Microsoft released the Windows 10 Pro for Workstation version of Windows 10 to the fall lineup of Windows 10 editions. This is a rather interesting move for Microsoft. It provides an edition of Windows 10 that is especially geared…
