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What Makes Object First Ootbi Different From Other Backup Appliances < ProVirtualzone
Every backup storage vendor says their product is immutable. The word is on every datasheet in the category,…
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Adding a Node to an Ootbi Cluster, and the Ports That Make It Work < ProVirtualzone
I added a second node to an Ootbi cluster in the lab this week. The flow is short…
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NSX Distributed Firewall Memory Exhaustion at Scale < ProVirtualzone
As always, when I run into an issue that takes real troubleshooting before I can fix it, and…
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vSphere Standard Is Coming Back, and Proxmox Just Grew Up a Little < ProVirtualzone
This week two things happened on the same day. VMware confirmed it will release an updated vSphere Standard,…
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When Veeam silently falls back to NBD < ProVirtualzone
In the last few weeks I had to fix several issues for some of our customers. Some of…
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Veeam no space: two tenants, two causes < ProVirtualzone
Second post in the Veeam Fix Series, where I take real issues I had to fix in customer…
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Leaseweb Cloud: A European Cloud Alternative < ProVirtualzone
This is my second blog post about European public cloud services. I started this series with a deep…
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Resetting the vCenter root Password in VCF: What You Must Do in SDDC Manager Afterwards < ProVirtualzone
VMware Cloud Foundation 4.2 (management domain)Here is a scenario that looks trivial but is not. You reset the…
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Building Resilient SAP Infrastructure on VCF — Part 2: Compute and Storage < ProVirtualzone
Series: Building Resilient SAP Infrastructure on VCFIn Part 1, I laid out the overall architecture: four sites, four…
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VCF 9.1: The Features That Actually Matter If You Run VCF < ProVirtualzone
This blog post, VCF 9.1: The Features That Actually Matter If You Run VCF, is not a walkthrough…