I have been getting quite a few inquiries about my fully nested VMware homelab setup. People seem to be struggling mostly with setting up the networking bits. I describe the overall topology in this blogpost but this blogpost will contain a lot more details on the network configuration. I also made a couple of changes, ...
NAKIVO Backup & Replication v9.3 with native protection of Oracle Databases using RMAN .By adding support for Oracle RMAN, NAKIVO Backup & Replication extends its list of enterprise-grade features: Backup for Oracle RMAN functionality offers businesses of all sizes improved visibility of their Oracle data protection. Customers can now back up their IT infrastructure including ...
Update April 15th 2020: William Lam reached out and asked me to provide the vm-support log bundle. Apparently, I incorrectly used the esxcli command to upgrade my host. Thanks to William, I found out a bunch of other VIBs were also not properly upgraded yet. If you are doing a full upgrade, make sure you ...
NAKIVO Backup & Replication is extending its backup functionality by introducing support for Backup to Tape and Linux Server Backup in its 9.1 release.
Update April 15th 2020: If you are doing a full upgrade, make sure you specify the proper profile name using: esxcli software profile update -d </path/to/depot.zip> -p <profile name> You can list the profiles included in the depot with: esxcli software sources profile list -d </path/to/depot.zip> I’m running a fully nested homelab on a single ...
I’m going to take a big risk here by trying to address the topics Availability and Recoverability in a VCDX design. This is arguably both the most important and most challenging topic of any VCDX design. I would say VCDX candidates get grilled on meeting SLAs, RPO and RTO times the most during the mocks ...
With the release of Backup and Replication v9, NAKIVO put a lot of emphasis on data protection for physical Windows servers with full support of application-aware backup, network acceleration, global deduplication, compression, log truncation, file and object recovery. In this blogpost I will walk you through the simple process of configuring Backup and Replication for ...
I recently passed the Master Specialist exam for VMware Cloud on AWS and this guide contains all my study notes and resources I used during my preparation. VMware Cloud on AWS Master Specialist Exam overview The exam is a multiple choice exam with 34 questions which you need to finish in 60 minutes. The passing ...
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