disaster recovery
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VMware
Accidentally delete VMware datastore files for a running VM?
In case you are curious or may have run into this question before as you are browing around in the datastore browser – Can you accidentally delete VMware datastore files for a running VM? Most may think, since the virtual…
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Networking
Veeam Powered Network Overview and Installation
I had seen a couple of tweets from Anthony Spiteri around Veeam Powered Network or Veeam PN. Having only briefly heard a couple of blurbs about this after VeeamOn I wanted to get some first hand experience with the product.…
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Backup Software
Offsite Backup with Vembu BDR Suite CloudDR
Vembu BDR Suite provides a great all encompassing feature set for organizations looking to provide site resiliency as well as multiple copies of backup data stored in multiple locations. These days, most organizations if not already utilziing the public cloud…
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NSX
Extend layer 2 DR network with VMware NSX
One of the especially tricky things that you have to deal with when thinking about a DR situation where you have a failover to another location is network connectivity. This comes into play especially with legacy applications that may have…
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Backup Software
How to Verify VM Backups with Nakivo
It can’t be stressed enough with backing up virtual environments, how important it is to verify your backups. You can easily do that with Nakivo Backup and Replication verify backups with screenshots. What better way to verify your backups than to…
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Backup Software
Vembu Quick VM Recovery Ensures Business Continuity with Minimal Downtime
When disaster strikes and business operations are interrupted by either software or infrastructure failure, the RTO (recovery time objective) or quite simply “how long does it take to recover?” time is crucial. Vembu BDR Suite provides a complete approach to…
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Backup Software
Veeam Restore Windows Server 2016 Active Directory Objects
When thinking about DR, Active Directory backup and restoration is CRITICAL! Period! If you can restore all of your important SQL servers, Sharepoint, Exchange, exactly as they were in production at the block level, but cannot start services because AD…
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vSphere 6.5
How to Configure VMware VCSA 6.5 HA
One of the many exciting new features of the VCSA 6.5 appliance is the builtin ability for high availability or HA out of the box. The HA configuration process creates two additional appliances that are a “passive” node and a…
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vSphere 6.5
VMware VCSA 6.5 Appliance Restore
In the last post, we covered the process to backup the new VCSA 6.5 appliance. Let’s now take a look at the VMware VCSA 6.5 appliance restore process from the backup file set. As shown in the previous post, the…
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Backup Software
Vembu BDR Suite – The all-in-one backup solution at affordable cost for all
There are many options when it comes to backing up virtual infrastructure both in the VMware and Hyper-V space as well as protection cloud resources. Many may piece together solutions with multiple products to cover the bases across hypervisors, physical…
