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VMware
Using VMware vSphere VM Customization Specification
Deploying virtual machines is a basic part of VMware vSphere administration. Virtual machines are deployed, cloned, etc. Customizing the guest operating system can be a very labor intensive set of tasks from a provisioning standpoint. Thankfully, the VM Customization Specifications…
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vSphere 6.5
New VMware vSphere 6.5 HTML5 Web Client Features with Fling
VMware is showing great commitment to the development of the new HTML5 web client and are quickly releasing new features and functionality. How can you use the new HTML5 web client features and functionality before they make it into the…
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VMware
What is VMware Changed Block Tracking
Most of today’s backup solutions that interact with VMware vSphere environments are able to use a technology called Changed Block Tracking (CBT) which allows taking incremental backups of virtual machines much more efficient which allows much smaller and quicker backups…
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SQL
Upgrade SQL Server 2016 to 2017
Recently, SQL Server 2017 was released as GA to the masses. This represents the latest and greatest SQL server technology available to consume. There are some really great new features that are contained in SQL Server 2017 to be aware…
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Hyper-V
Backup Hyper-V clusters with Nakivo
Nakivo Backup & Replication provides a powerful means to backup multiple hypervisors including VMware, AWS instances, and also Microsoft Hyper-V environments. Especially cool with the Hyper-V support is the ability to protect Hyper-V Failover Cluster environments. This functionality was introduced…
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Backup Software
Veeam SQL Transaction Log Backups
Veeam Backup & Replication provides powerful features for backing up virtual environments. One of these features is the ability to provide application aware backups. Application aware backups allow organizations to maintain transactional consistency in backups of virtual machines housing applications…
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NSX
What is VMware NSX SpoofGuard
VMware NSX includes many great features that help to bolster an organization’s security posture at a network level. It allows the abstracting of network and security functionality from the underlying physical network infrastructure. We often talk about microsegmentation with VMware…
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vSphere 6.5
Upgrade Dell VMware ESXi 6.0 Cluster to 6.5 U1 with VUM
With many today either upgrading or planning on upgrading their VMware vSphere 6.0 generation clusters to 6.5 Update 1, most are probably starting to form a game plan to get clusters upgraded. Of course, the first thing that has to…
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Hyper-V
Hyper-V backups saved state vs child VM snapshots
When thinking about backing up Hyper-V workloads, we want to consider the mechanisms that can be used to perform the backup of the virtual machines. Hyper-V can use two means for backing up virtual machines – the “saved state method”…
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Backup Software
Vembu BDR Suite Unlimited Free Backups
Vembu is quickly becoming recognized in the industry as a software company offering a tremendously powerful suite of products all in one pane of glass for backing up virtual, physical, and cloud infrastructure. Vembu’s BDR Suite products allows functionality for…
