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Security for your virtual machines: backup of vSphere encrypted VMs

Luca Dell'Oca, February 14, 2017February 15, 2017

In my previous post of this small series, titled Security for your virtual machines: what is KMIP?, I talked about the new generation of the main hypervisors, VMware vSphere 6.5 and Microsoft Hyper-V 2016, and how they both introduced new encryption capabilities for virtual machines. I described the underlying technology used by VMware, KMIP; it’s not time to implement it in my lab and see how it interacts with data protection, specifically backups.

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Error “Unable to retrieve the migration assistant extension on source vCenter Server. Make sure migration assistant is running on the VUM server” when upgrading vCenter appliance

Luca Dell'Oca, February 2, 2017January 29, 2017

Learn how to fix the error “Unable to retrieve the migration assistant extension on source vCenter Server. Make sure migration assistant is running on the VUM server” when you are upgrading your vCenter Server appliance from 6.0 to 6.5.

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Security for your virtual machines: what is KMIP?

Luca Dell'Oca, January 31, 2017January 28, 2017

The latest generation of the main hypervisors has shown, among other things, a renewed and increased focus on security, with the most visible feature being VM encryption. It’s amazing to see how both VMware vSphere 6.5 and Microsoft Hyper-V 2016, both released in the same year, introduced this feature at the same time. But it’s less of a surprise if you think about all the security issues that IT admins and users are facing lately, with things like ransomware, cryptolocker and other threads.
In this first of a series of posts, we’ll look at the different solutions and some deep dive into the used technologies, and how operations like backups are impacted. In this first post, let’s talk about KMIP.

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Patch 1 available for Veeam Backup & Replication 6.5

Luca Dell'Oca, December 27, 2012January 9, 2013

Few days ago, right in the middle of Christmas holidays, Veeam has released their first patch for Veeam Backup & Replication 6.5. You can find information about the fixes and the link to download the patch itself, in this article of their Knowledge Base. Here I’m giving you some useful information…

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Disponibile la patch 1 per Veeam Backup & Replication 6.5

Luca Dell'Oca, December 27, 2012December 26, 2012

Pochi giorni fa, durante le vacanza natalizie, Veeam ha rilasciato la prima patch per Veeam Backup & Replication 6.5. Potete trovare tutte le informazioni relative alle correzioni apportate, e il link per il download della patch, in questo articolo della loro Knowledge Base. Eccovi alcune informazioni utili. Prerequisiti: dovete verificare…

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Webinar su Veeam 6.5: video e slide

Luca Dell'Oca, November 22, 2012November 29, 2013

Un veloce post per segnalarvi la disponibilità del materiale relativo al webinar che ho tenuto lo scorso 16 Dicembre in merito alle novità di Veeam Backup & Replication 6.5 A questo link trovate le slide della presentazione. Qui trovate il video del webinar, contenente anche la demo completa di Veeam…

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Veeam VESS series 5: Instant VM recovery via LeftHand snapshots

Luca Dell'Oca, November 15, 2012December 4, 2016

In the previous posts, I explained how to configure and use Veeam Explorer for SAN Snapshots to create san-based snapshots of your VMs and make them available directly inside Veeam Backup & Replication (VBR). Now it’s time for the last post: how to use them to do restore operations. One…

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Veeam VESS series 5: Instant VM recovery tramite le snapshots LeftHand

Luca Dell'Oca, November 15, 2012December 4, 2016

Nei precedenti post, ho spiegato come configurare e utilizzare Veeam Explorer for SAN Snapshots per creare snapshot di tipo san-based per le vostre VM e renderle visibili direttamente all’interno di Veeam Backup & Replication (VBR). E’ giunto il momento del post conclusivo: come usare queste snapshots per i restore. Una…

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