When using Veeam with a deduplicating storage system, a best practice can be to have a non-duplicating storage system as the ...

virtualization, cloud, networking, security, storageReading Time: 7 minutes Some Veeam customers are using a dedup appliance as the primary repository (or as the performance tier in a Scale-Out ...

Reading Time: 2 minutesOne of the big advantages of the virtual appliance version of VMware vCenter (vCSA) is the ability to update both the OS components and the VMware parts with a simple menu. Just ...

Reading Time: 3 minutes Rocky Linux (and also all the other RHEL clones) does not use the latest Linux kernel version. Some weeks ago the Linux kernel 6.16 has been released, but also the latest Rocky ...

For version 9 the active support is valid until May 31 2027, and the the product will go end of life on May 31, 2032. But note that not all the 9.x versions are supported… actually only Rocky Linux ...

VMware vCenter Standalone Converter platforms support goes almost with the vSphere version, so if you need to support vSphere 6.0, you will need the Converter 6.0 version. But for the supported guest ...

Veeam Backup & Replication does not have a native integration with “entry-level” NAS appliance, but there are some different options if you want to configure a Veeam repository on a NAS hardware ...

Reading Time: 5 minutes The VMware ESXi partitions layout on the system disk has remained almost the same for several years. VMware ESXi 6.x partitions layout was the same from previous 5.x versions ...

As you can see the vmxnet3 can reach more than 20 Gbps in this scenario. I’ve tested between two CentOS8 VMs running on distribuited virtual switches on vSphere 6.7 host (with Xeon Gold CPUs). But the ...

This is an article realized for StarWind blog and focused on the design and implementation of a stretched cluster. A stretched cluster, sometimes called metro-cluster, is a deployment model in which ...

Debian like distributions have a nice option to manage distribution upgrade (apt-get dist-upgrade), not always available on RedHat like distributions… in-place upgrade are still possible, but maybe ...