Proxmox Backup Server is a robust backup software solution designed for enterprise use. It enables you to securely back up virtual machines, containers, and physical hosts. This software is highly optimized for the Proxmox Virtual Environment platform and offers convenient web-based management, allowing you to easily handle data backups across remote sites.
VMware Fault Tolerance (VMware FT) is one of vSphere clustering features that can protect services with zero downtime but not useful for any services or any virtual machine.
This post is not about VMware Fault Tolerance capabilities and I’ll reviewing use cases. At end of this post, you’ll find why this feature is not suitable for each service or environment. Also find that when you should use it and when you should not use that.
Stupid security guys! They only know concepts and has no technical knowledge about their technical field. They just read some documentations. But most important steps of having security is applying configuration and reviewing current configuration. Also, they have no idea that what are they doing on servers and client. CIS benchmarks are reference for hardening most popular operating systems, but you cannot apply the desired configurations in large scale of servers or clients without using some tools.
VMFS corruption is one of disasters which happening you might lost both service and data. vSphere On-Disk Metadata Analyzer (VOMA) would help you to fix some issues on VMFS and repair metadata.
I’m sure that most IT administrators are familiar with Veeam’s products and specially, Veeam Backup and Replication (Veeam BR). This product is one of popular backup and replication suite for physical and virtual environments. Veeam Backup and Replication offers three transport modes and we’ll review the transport modes and condition of their selection in this post.
VMware PhotonOS 5.0 is the latest release of VMware Operating System and released with new features and enhancements recently. It’s available as ISO images and virtual appliance to download.
The government of Iran has announced that daylight savings will not be observed from March 2023. But apparently, this issue has not been properly coordinated with international institutions. So this was cause of many issues on public services in Iran. We did some updates and configuration changes before 22nd March 2022 and I want to share the story with you.
Virtual Machine Identification (VMID or VM-ID) is a technology for tracking virtual machine I/O between virtual machine and SAN target. VM-ID can be used by hypervisor and FC switch to trace generated I/O by specific VM. As result, we can optimize whole SAN area for VI workload and non-VI workloads would be achieved.
Kata Containers offers method of container deployment with more security. Security is one biggest challenge about containers and containers has lower level of security compared to virtual machines. Because virtual machines are isolated from each other, but containers can’t provide isolation same as virtual machines.
SmartOS is a live OS. What does it mean? SmartOS always boot from removable media and network. There is no need to use disk capacity for itself.
Lockdown mode could be useful to achieved maximum restriction to ESXi hosts. Let’s decide to activate lockdown mode in VMware vSphere together at this post.
DELL EMC PowerProtect Appliance has two types currently. We’ll review difference between two types at this post.
Dell EMC Unity 5.2.2.0.5.004 has been released recently with some bug fixes. The release has no new feature.
Large or small environments have same challenges about updating operating system and the challenges are about automation, reporting and notifying end-users or administrators. Control My Update is a fling which written by VMware engineers to have more control about Windows updates.
Virtualization platforms such as VMware vSphere or Linux KVM supporting large scale of virtual machines now. Even, virtualization platforms can host monster virtual machines as database server. At this post, we’ll review database backup solutions in virtualization platforms about advantages and disadvantages.
