Bad Cloud / MSP

This is my new favorite forum post: Almost Giving Up This post perfectly represents what happens to many Organizations when they engage a major Cloud/MSP for the very reason that they believe “bigger is better.” Fact is: many Big Clouds and MSPs do not have your best interests in mind and will not treat your
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Hardened / Immutable Backup Repository Appliance

Hardened / Immutable Backups are the equivalent of “air gapped,” tape, or WORM backups, rendering your data nearly untouchable by Threat Actors! Hardened / Immutable Backups are accomplished through the use of a Linux repository server, the XFS filesystem (to support Fast Clone), one-time-use credentials, and the immutability flag which is a property of just
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VMware vSphere Best Practices

In this post I have created a general-purpose Best Practices guideline for VMware vSphere, including references. I base these Best Practices recommendations on my personal, and VMsources collective experience, in dealing with hundreds (if not thousands, at this point) of unique client environments over the last decade. My intent is to help VMware users of
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Immutable Repository OVA for Veeam Backup and Replication 11

Veeam Backup and Replication 11 is a true game-changer with its Immutable Backup feature. Moving forward, Veeam Immutable Backups will free organizations from the hassle of physical tape libraries as well as eliminating the need for expensive “virtual tape libraries,” all while providing easily manageable backup chains. Veeam Immutable Backups are the equivalent of “air
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Listing individual vSAN disk utilization

Unfortunately, many issues with vSAN require the intervention of VMware Support as the available command references are often lacking. Here is a tidbit to list individual vSAN Disk utilization that I thought might be helpful. BTW. this is in reference to VMware vSAN 6.7 and may or may not work on other versions: Expected output
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