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Month: June 2012

New Open Source Storage NAS on the block: NAS4Free

New Open Source Storage NAS on the block: NAS4Free

A few weeks ago I came across a new Open Source Storage NAS system: NAS4Free. This is another lightweight NAS system (like FreeNas, OpenFiler,…) which can be installed on Compact Flash/USB/SSD key, hard disk or booted of from a LiveCD. NAS4Free is build on FreeBSD 9.0 and has ZFS v28 included, it was first release on 2012-03-22. NAS4Free supports Software JBOD, RAID 0, 1 and 5 configurations as well as Hardware RAID. Besides several types of RAID you can also…

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Veeam Backup And Replication 6.1 released

Veeam Backup And Replication 6.1 released

Today Veeam announced their new major release: Veeam Backup and Replication 6.1. This major release includes several improvements and some interesting new additions. VeeamZIP: Version 6.1 includes a new capability for performing ad-hoc backups. In many ways, it functions like a zip utility for VMs. For this reason, it’s called VeeamZIP. Backup a VM on-the-fly: Instead of running the regular backup job (which typically contains multiple VMs and a specified number of restore points) or creating a new backup job,…

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Great VMUG Belgium Event: The Blogger Edition

Great VMUG Belgium Event: The Blogger Edition

Last Friday, 1 June 2012, the 17th Belgium VMUG event took place. This event had the name “The Blogger Edition” due the impressive agenda! The agenda of this meeting. Technical sessions: RAID types and alignment impact on VMware workloads – Erik Zandboer “Designing a cloud infrastructure” – Duncan Epping and Lieven D’hoore “Beer and PowerCLI: you can’t live without them” – Luc Dekens “HyperV v3.0 vs VMware vSphere 5” – Alex Muetstege & Erik Scholten (VMGuru) “Troubleshooting VDI” – Sven…

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vSphere 5.0 Hardening Guide Final Version released

vSphere 5.0 Hardening Guide Final Version released

VMware released the final version on their “vSphere 5.0 Hardening Guide”. This latest version represents a significant step in the evolution of the guide. Based on feedback from customers and partners, the guide was re-structured from the ground up with the following key aspects: The guide is being released exclusively in spreadsheet format. Many of you have indicated that, although the accompanying text found in previous versions of the guide is interesting, the specific steps for assessment and remediation of…

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