Book review: VMware Cloud on AWS Blueprint
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by Andrea Mauro
4d ago
Reading Time: 4 minutes I’ve was courios to learn more about VMware Cloud on AWS and I read a new book from Packt, released on Feb 2024, with the title: VMware Cloud on AWS Blueprint: Design, automate, and migrate VMware workloads on AWS global infrastructure. The book is also available on Amazan at this link. It explores some use cases and best practices to seamlessly migrate and scale legacy enterprise-grade applications running on on-premises vSphere environments to VMware Cloud SDDCs running on AWS infrastructure. This book is structured in three main areas: As you can notice there is a ..read more
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Type of vSphere Guest OS Customization engines for Linux VM
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by Andrea Mauro
1w ago
Reading Time: 5 minutes VMware vSphere has a guest customization feature to change some guest OS setting for VMs that are cloned of deployed from template. For example to change the computer name, network settings, or timezone settings. Customizing guest operating systems helps prevent conflicts that occur if virtual machines with identical settings are deployed, for example conflicts due to duplicate computer names. For Linux based VM there are two diffent type of guest OS customization engines: But which one is used and which could be preferred? See KB 59557 on how to switch betwee ..read more
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Proxmox Backup Solution by NAKIVO
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by Andrea Mauro
1w ago
Reading Time: 2 minutes NAKIVO has just released a new solution to back up and recover Proxmox VM data. Proxmox Backup Solution by NAKIVO that is already available to download.  https://www.nakivo.com/proxmox-backup/ Customers can protect their Proxmox VM data using agent-based backup. This support comes with a set of capabilities, such as: Will be interesting see if this product will also help Proxmox VM growing in its adoption ..read more
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How to disable cloud-init on Ubuntu Server
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by Andrea Mauro
1w ago
Reading Time: 2 minutes Cloud-init is a powerful configuration tools, but his implementation is not always the best. And on some version of Ubuntu Server it’s making the boot slower and it’s annoning with some console messaging, also after the boot phase. There are two different approach to disable cloud-init. Flexible mode: Disable cloud-init from file This is the safest and the easiest method and is fast to reverse. It require to create a cloud-init.disabled file in /etc/cloud directory and reboot the system. sudo touch /etc/cloud/cloud-init.disabled init 6 Permament mode: remove c ..read more
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What is SONiC?
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by Andrea Mauro
1w ago
Reading Time: 2 minutes Software for Open Networking in the Cloud (SONiC) is the open networking solution used in Microsoft’s Azure Cloud. SONiC is the networking switch software used in the lower layer of Azure Datacenter fabric (TOR and Aggregation). Most important, is an open-source project available on our SONiC GitHub Repository. SONiC is a uniquely extensible platform, with a large and growing ecosystem of hardware and software partners, that offers multiple switching platforms and various software components. SONiC is built on the Switch Abstraction Interface (SAI), which defi ..read more
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Veeam plug-in for Oracle RMAN – Manual mode
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by Andrea Mauro
2w ago
Reading Time: 6 minutes Veeam plug-in for Oracle RMAN can be used for transactionally-consistent RMAN-based backups of Oracle databases and in some cases (as described in the previous article) it could be the only way (or the preferred way) to manage Oracle database backup. Probably the best way to manage it is from the Veeam Backup Console, as described in the previous article. But it’s also possible manage it manually. By default, RMAN sends backups to a native RMAN location on disk (DEFAULT DEVICE TYPE TO DISK). When you configure Veeam Plug-in, the default device type is changed to SB ..read more
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Veeam plug-in for Oracle RMAN – Managed mode
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by Andrea Mauro
2w ago
Reading Time: 6 minutes Veeam plug-in for Oracle RMAN can be used for transactionally-consistent RMAN-based backups of Oracle databases and in some cases (as described in the previous article) it could be the only way (or the preferred way) to manage Oracle database backup. In this post, we will see how use it in amanaged mode, buy automatically installing and configuring it via the Veeam Backup Console. Managed plug-in installation You can install and managed the Oracle RMAN plug-in thought the Veeam Backup and the protection groups (used also to manage the different Veeam Agents). First crea ..read more
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Veeam plug-in for Oracle RMAN
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by Andrea Mauro
2w ago
Reading Time: 3 minutes Veeam Backup & Replication offers two options to protect Oracle databases: You can use both or one of the options depending on your environment specifics and approach to handle Oracle databases. Why use the RMAN plug-in? Veeam Plug-in is based on the backup and restore functionality of Oracle Recovery Manager (RMAN) and transfers the generated backups to a Veeam backup repository. Instead of use a custom agent, it rely on a standard tool (for Oracle enviroment) and extend its capapibilities by adding a Veeam repository to the possibile destination. Veeam Plug-in to ..read more
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Cases with possible VMware vSphere backup corruption
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by Andrea Mauro
3w ago
Reading Time: 2 minutes Since version 4.x, VMware vSphere provides native API to perform image level backup of running VMs: VMware vSphere Storage APIs – Data Protection (formerly known as VMware vStorage APIs for Data Protection or VADP). Those API are based on VMware snapshot to create a readable base VMDK disk that can be easily copied by a compatible backup solution using a full transfer or using incremental transfer with Changed Block Tracking (CBT) feature. A backup product using VMware vSphere Storage APIs – Data Protection can backup vSphere virtual machines from a central backup serve ..read more
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VMware vCenter Server upgrades with the reduced downtime
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by Andrea Mauro
3w ago
Reading Time: 2 minutes The Reduced Downtime Upgrade (RDU) is a new mechanism introduced in vSphere 8.x for upgrade/update the self-managed vCenter Servers with a minimal downtime (lesser compared to normal upgrade/update procedure). What is the Self-managed vCenter Server? It’s a vCenter Server that manages its own ESXi host and its own virtual machine. More information are available in KB 92659 (vCenter Server upgrades with the reduced downtime). If you try to update a vCSA 8.0.x with VAMI you will notice this reminder about the new RDU feature: Actually works only with 8.0.x version, so can ..read more
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