tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68797314003148419752024-03-14T14:10:56.323+05:30Let's VirtualizeFollow this technology blog to get the latest information on Virtualization and Cloud Architecture, Best Practices, What's New and much more.Kanishk Sethihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00557733584451423436noreply@blogger.comBlogger170125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6879731400314841975.post-74694227805678522062022-09-08T12:48:00.001+05:302022-09-08T12:48:58.706+05:30VMware vSAN 8 - What's New<p dir="ltr" id="docs-internal-guid-49dbe7fe-7fff-e972-9e35-521d871e905b" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">VMware recently announced VMware vSAN8 during VMware explore 2022, dedicated this article talking about some of those enhancements and the latest features which have been added. With vSAN8 VMware introduced </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">vSAN express storage architecture </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">which uses </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">single-tier architecture</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> as compared to the vSAN original storage architecture which uses t</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">wo-tier architecture</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (dedicated cache and capacity disks) and is able to accommodate a wide range of storage devices and uses disks groups to provide performance through caching and capacity. </span></p><p dir="ltr" id="docs-internal-guid-49dbe7fe-7fff-e972-9e35-521d871e905b" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="197" data-original-width="709" height="178" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6omUdWesZM8Y90MJ22wnyNoxPTvqwl0TvhvP535cHq1dBClnxfwI5uQhtlCS5oSXc4Q_vOT1qlRY1VYyuud5tVOLDXIqhhwZTXaj9mBDAPanrzNGnbLtsn26UGSSJ8cnB7Q9mlyfv6yqXyaT6Wg2ly2CxgkRstEAIAnzEZ9Vw-Ostg0eUGRABiP1kXQ/w640-h178/VSAN.png" width="640" /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Image Source : VMware.com</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-23bd2afb-7fff-8ccb-bea7-1eeaf7ed0dd1" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>vSAN8 Express Storage Architecture</b> uses a single tier architecture and is optimized for high-performance NVME- based flash devices, without using disk groups, and all the devices contribute toward performance and capacity. The advancements in vSAN8 architecture come from the new </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">log-structured file system</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> a new layer in the vSAN stack that allows vSAN to ingest data fast and prepare the data for full stripe write. Another layer that has been added in the vSAN8 stack is the vSAN <b>Log-structured object manager</b> which helps in minimizing the metadata overhead.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-7af69610-7fff-7dc3-2039-dff281f44e0e" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">When it comes to incorporating the vSAN8 into the production environment , vSAN8 can </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;">co-exist </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">with the existing vSAN clusters, and we can easily migrate the VM’s from the old vSAN cluster to the new vSAN8 cluster using ESA. We can upgrade to VSAN8 and still stay on the original two-tier architecture (original storage architecture) which will introduce all the enhancements to the original storage architecture. </span></span></p>Kanishk Sethihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00557733584451423436noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6879731400314841975.post-32116876280527686522022-08-31T13:51:00.000+05:302022-08-31T13:51:20.922+05:30VMware vSphere8 - The Enterprise Workload Platform<p><span style="font-family: arial;">VMware's Flagship product VMware vSphere 8 was announced yesterday in VMwareExplore 2022 which bring's the benefit of Cloud to On-premises workloads.</span></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGzQL0EICvK-QP8e5-D4QQSzECqDGZCeWgjgHYEPTZnukyb9tw-3o0gnvT46TsUUjiLJHAYHRaoien508AC2MHdx-FiS4_3FEhkI1TgWSV7r0AzeP-klox_uzXl_lvXbDNRr4x9UugsLaMzq46Ql-I1QivXX66xDarqZeiHmsRcyqOkIqTRw06lm_CXw/s4661/wnv8_theme.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2452" data-original-width="4661" height="336" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGzQL0EICvK-QP8e5-D4QQSzECqDGZCeWgjgHYEPTZnukyb9tw-3o0gnvT46TsUUjiLJHAYHRaoien508AC2MHdx-FiS4_3FEhkI1TgWSV7r0AzeP-klox_uzXl_lvXbDNRr4x9UugsLaMzq46Ql-I1QivXX66xDarqZeiHmsRcyqOkIqTRw06lm_CXw/w640-h336/wnv8_theme.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Super Charged Workload Performance - <span style="font-weight: normal;">vSphere 8 Introduces Data processing units using </span>VMware vSphere Distributed Services Engine<span style="font-weight: normal;">, wherein the modern application hosted on infrastructure is distributed between CPU and DPU. And further enhances the performance by providing more cpu resources to workloads.</span></span></h3><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></span></div><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>Accelerate Innovation for DevOps</b> - <span style="font-weight: normal;">With VMware vSphere 8 VMware is delivering TKG 2.0 (Tanzu Kubernetes Grid 2.0) which is designed to address complexities of agile environments. Tanzu Kubernetes Grid 2.0 is tightly integrated with VMware vSphere 8 giving more flexibility to vSphere users to transform to Kubernetes.</span></span></h3><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>Enhanced Operational Efficiency</b> - VMware vSphere8 also add further improvements towards Distributed Resources Scheduler wherein the DRS can now make more intelligent placement decisions based on the memory <b>needs</b> of the workloads.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><h2 style="text-align: left;"> <a href="https://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2022/08/introducing-vsphere-8-the-enterprise-workload-platform.html" target="_blank"> Introducing VMware vSphere 8 </a></h2><div><br /></div><p></p>Kanishk Sethihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00557733584451423436noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6879731400314841975.post-57656178308591209042022-07-11T00:54:00.000+05:302022-07-11T00:54:04.699+05:30What's New - Vembu BDR Suite 5.2<p><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Recently I got a chance to get my hands on the latest <b>Vembu BDR Suite 5.2</b> and there are pretty cool new features which have been added, The last version I worked on and dedicated a detailed blog post was v4.0 and from v4.0 to v5.2 there have been many new features that have been added to Vembu BDR 5.2 like </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Restoring to Microsoft Azure, BDR Suite 360 Server and Multi-tenancy.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="607" data-original-width="1017" height="382" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEic2_HsaA_wjzSXRGAqC7HCHRXLnrq3HDo_gs4LIiHPxQLXekh4k71Dt_qNwelgmgSjA_o2ASP2YdE7WdFyFYF88iNMzmw9Ij7UJLHOZeG6pGzaPiPX1kdDZFCo2YTQt9OA4Jyzz4ic6sYBCSpnXjSiEikX2GttUgGKbkHMjmV72C0Cs-7jdVvmA9NwKg/w640-h382/BDR2.png" width="640" /></div><h1 style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What's New - Vembu BDR Suite 5.2</span></h1><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-4d318396-7fff-d93a-42b3-a39c77edee5c"><h3 dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 13pt 0pt 4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Restore to Microsoft Azure</span></h3><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 15pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">BDRSuite now allows restoring the VMware VMs, Hyper-V VMs, Windows Servers & Windows Workstations backups to Microsoft Azure. You can initiate the restore directly from your BDRSuite Backup Server or Offsite DR Server</span></p><h3 dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">BDRSuite 360 Server</span></h3><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 15pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The BDRSuite 360 Server enables customers and service providers to monitor the backup activity of the BDRSuite Backup Servers deployed on their customer locations across multiple sites from a centralized web-based console.</span></p><h3 dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 13pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 4pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Multitenancy</span></h3><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 15pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The multitenancy architecture of BDRSuite is redesigned to support advanced use cases of MSPs. You can now create multiple tenants and allocate one or more entities to each tenant. Every tenant will get multiple user roles to monitor and manage all the entities added under them.</span></p><h2 dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.4823529411764707; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-top: 4pt;"></h2><h3 style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Enhancements in BDRSuite v5.2</span></b></h3>
<p style="text-align: left;"></p><ul><li style="font-stretch: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Improved application creation steps to add Microsoft 365 accounts to BDRSuite</span></li></ul><ul><li style="font-stretch: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">On-demand backup scheduling for Microsoft 365 backups</span></li></ul><ul><li style="font-stretch: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Enhanced backup progress window for Microsoft 365 backups</span></li></ul><ul><li style="font-stretch: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Enhanced backup report for Microsoft 365 backups</span></li></ul><ul><li style="font-stretch: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Subfolder tree view for Microsoft 365 Mailbox</span></li></ul><ul><li style="font-stretch: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Subfolder tree view for OneDrive</span></li></ul><ul><li style="font-stretch: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Subfolder tree view for Group OneDrive</span></li></ul><ul><li style="font-stretch: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">User-level backup report for Microsoft-365</span></li></ul><ul><li style="font-stretch: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">PST Download of Microsoft 365 now supports all Microsoft Outlook versions</span></li></ul><ul><li style="font-stretch: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">On-demand backup scheduling for Google Workspace backups.</span></li></ul><h1 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Installation and Configuration </span></h1><div><span id="docs-internal-guid-5f51ad09-7fff-ed53-50a7-7e8daf15cf74"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">The installation of Vembu BDR Suite v5.2.0 is pretty straightforward and we can opt out for a </span>S</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">tandalone Installation (</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">recommended where only one BDR Suite Backup Server is Deployed</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">)</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> or </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">C</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">luster Installation</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (recommended for scalability and load balancing).</span></span></div><div><span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhF4bIu9gEmaxACKqXbJIYZQ2FKUB2pgjXRCCSlQwTaR0-um_BCvDfHQ9VRSPm4nat8A8YmLmsiShMAsGwDT7sP3wIxbseA0XOLGbgqkq79aQpNamS8BGBQG7gCG1HOYUgyZm0qMCMwXCMyS_EuuJhhTOO1jCPD4Ik63cqcN_6X0yRGPo1V5eBiZLldgg/s461/StandALone_Cluster%20Installation.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="373" data-original-width="461" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhF4bIu9gEmaxACKqXbJIYZQ2FKUB2pgjXRCCSlQwTaR0-um_BCvDfHQ9VRSPm4nat8A8YmLmsiShMAsGwDT7sP3wIxbseA0XOLGbgqkq79aQpNamS8BGBQG7gCG1HOYUgyZm0qMCMwXCMyS_EuuJhhTOO1jCPD4Ik63cqcN_6X0yRGPo1V5eBiZLldgg/s16000/StandALone_Cluster%20Installation.png" /></a></div><br /></span><span id="docs-internal-guid-0cbaedd8-7fff-1087-367f-76ebd15b945a"><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">When Selecting the cluster installation type we further have the option to select how we want to install the main node in the cluster and the database associated with it.</span></p></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">After registering the backup server the next task on the list is to configure the </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Backup Repository</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> to store your data.</span></p></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_q5ic0TPULKCDB6kppXWkwuZqgG8yV7LTBAZhuAtuwxXklngIx_I-hPU8CLBigjbazFe-9yp5ZC1kZdUaEWnamO5fOplUKjjJT1e5VQe2VFJVTR-Y6qCYP9IUvYLltMOM7x86dosT1F6kgQqmGZz9ssxEoqDvrjfHsiE1y5rSoXea-Z0RVMO6cFn0uA/s865/Block%20Storage.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="218" data-original-width="865" height="162" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_q5ic0TPULKCDB6kppXWkwuZqgG8yV7LTBAZhuAtuwxXklngIx_I-hPU8CLBigjbazFe-9yp5ZC1kZdUaEWnamO5fOplUKjjJT1e5VQe2VFJVTR-Y6qCYP9IUvYLltMOM7x86dosT1F6kgQqmGZz9ssxEoqDvrjfHsiE1y5rSoXea-Z0RVMO6cFn0uA/w640-h162/Block%20Storage.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 17.33333396911621px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Depending upon the type of storage we can select the repository type for NAS select <b>Simple</b> and select <b>Scale Out</b> when pooling multiple storage volumes and select Disk Rotation if you want to add only one disk with a flexibility to rotate the disk with a new One when it's full.</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 17.33333396911621px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 17.33333396911621px; 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white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Configure Backups : </b></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 17.33333396911621px; white-space: pre-wrap;">While selecting the basic job details we have an option to create a job <b>without using a template</b> wherein we want to create a backup from scratch or we have an option to create a job <b>using an existing template</b>.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 17.33333396911621px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 17.33333396911621px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRwE2TlG8WO8Rv99EAzJu6hz_fN5XKfD0Kuc_B4zB--O3M6sf3lWq5ImGAh4uoeOcYryAnpRyW10gQJ6E1hMWz32cHkWQ_k157N8Oj7gZiSWuxhoslaBaz5cLFOCMUShHlcUxVayhsgLGhVNaufoFU1meS3c0-3Rq7WUNwGb59RazSv3RoKVqaCrAzVA/s1336/Backup_Job.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 17.33333396911621px; white-space: pre-wrap;">** While configuring the backup job we have an option to select the <b>individual VM's</b> we want to backup or select the <b>entire ESXi host</b> which will then backup all the VM's running on that ESXi host.</span></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 17.33333396911621px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Restore Backup Data / Recovery : </b>Vembu BDR allows us to restore backup data from BDR Suite Backup Server using multiple recovery options. </span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 17.33333396911621px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></div><div><ul style="color: #333333; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; line-height: 1.625 !important; margin-bottom: 15px !important; orphans: 2; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2;"><li style="font-size: 10.5pt !important; line-height: 1.625 !important; margin-bottom: 15px !important;"><a href="https://www.vembu.com/guide/vembu-bdr-suite/5-2/en/instant-boot-vm.html" style="color: rgb(201, 4, 4) !important; font-size: 10.5pt !important; text-decoration: none;">Instant Boot VM</a></li><li style="font-size: 10.5pt !important; line-height: 1.625 !important; margin-bottom: 15px !important;"><a href="https://www.vembu.com/guide/vembu-bdr-suite/5-2/en/full-vm-recovery.html" style="color: rgb(201, 4, 4) !important; font-size: 10.5pt !important; text-decoration: none;">Full VM Recovery</a></li><li style="font-size: 10.5pt !important; line-height: 1.625 !important; margin-bottom: 15px !important;"><a href="https://www.vembu.com/guide/vembu-bdr-suite/5-2/en/disk-mount.html" style="color: rgb(201, 4, 4) !important; font-size: 10.5pt !important; text-decoration: none;">Disk Mount</a></li><li style="font-size: 10.5pt !important; line-height: 1.625 !important; margin-bottom: 15px !important;"><a href="https://www.vembu.com/guide/vembu-bdr-suite/5-2/en/disk-level-recovery.html" style="color: rgb(201, 4, 4) !important; 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line-height: 1.625 !important; margin-bottom: 15px !important;"><a href="https://www.vembu.com/guide/vembu-bdr-suite/5-2/en/microsoft-exchange-server-recovery.html" style="color: rgb(201, 4, 4) !important; font-size: 10.5pt !important; text-decoration: none;">Microsoft Exchange Server Recovery</a></li><li style="font-size: 10.5pt !important; line-height: 1.625 !important; margin-bottom: 15px !important;"><a href="https://www.vembu.com/guide/vembu-bdr-suite/5-2/en/microsoft-sql-server-recovery.html" style="color: rgb(201, 4, 4) !important; font-size: 10.5pt !important; text-decoration: none;">Microsoft SQL Server Recovery</a></li><li style="font-size: 10.5pt !important; line-height: 1.625 !important; margin-bottom: 15px !important;"><a href="https://www.vembu.com/guide/vembu-bdr-suite/5-2/en/microsoft-active-directory-recovery.html" style="color: rgb(201, 4, 4) !important; font-size: 10.5pt !important; text-decoration: none;">Microsoft Active Directory Recovery</a></li><li style="font-size: 10.5pt !important; line-height: 1.625 !important; margin-bottom: 15px !important;"><a href="https://www.vembu.com/guide/vembu-bdr-suite/5-2/en/microsoft-sharepoint-recovery.html" style="color: rgb(201, 4, 4) !important; font-size: 10.5pt !important; text-decoration: none;">Microsoft SharePoint Recovery </a></li><li style="font-size: 10.5pt !important; line-height: 1.625 !important; margin-bottom: 15px !important;"><a href="https://www.vembu.com/guide/vembu-bdr-suite/5-2/en/v2p-recovery.html" style="color: rgb(201, 4, 4) !important; font-size: 10.5pt !important; text-decoration: none;">Bare Metal Recovery (V2P)</a></li></ul></div></span></div><p><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 17.33333396911621px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Depending upon the type of scenario we have the and based on the need of the recovery there are various options to choose from, for example <b>Instant Boot VM </b>help us recover our virtual machine with minimal amount of downtime and ensure business continuity and disaster recovery.</span></span></p><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Summary and Final Thoughts</span></span></h3><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Vembu </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">BDRSuite is a comprehensive Backup and Disaster Recovery solution for virtual, physical, cloud, and SaaS applications and is designed to meet all the backup requirements of small, medium, and enterprise businesses. Vembu BDR offers </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); white-space: pre-wrap;">Agent-less</span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> Backup for VMware, Hyper-V VM's, AWS EC2 Instances, Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">I think since I have started using Vembu BDR 4.x till today Vembu has came a long way with all the new feature's that has been added to the product itself and the overall enhancement's done towards day 2 support, by adding detailed documentation of product installation and configuration, white papers, knowledge bases is something which is remarkable. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2;">Download a free trial edition of BDRSuite v5.2 here:</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #2c2f34; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2;"> </span><a href="https://www.vembu.com/vembu-bdr-suite-download/" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0088ff; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; list-style: none; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.15s ease 0s; widows: 2;">Download Vembu BDR Suite – vembu.com</a></span></p>Kanishk Sethihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00557733584451423436noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6879731400314841975.post-52521803972280498162020-07-01T16:33:00.000+05:302020-07-01T16:33:11.723+05:30Back to Basics - VMware Tanzu Mission Control<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Recently started spending some time learning more about <b>VMware Tanzu Portfolio</b> which is broadly categorised into three important aspects (Build, Run and Manage) and on each of these logical layers there are various products and services that fit's in for example <b>VMware Tanzu Application Service </b>falls under the category of <b>Build</b> (Allowing developers for creating the application/ building the code) , <b>RUN (VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid -</b><span style="background-color: #fafafa;"><span style="color: #212529;"> is a multi-cloud Kubernetes footprint that we can run both on-premises in vSphere (vSphere 7 with Kubernetes and vSphere 6.7 ) and also in the public cloud and finally the third logical aspect is to </span><b style="color: #212529;">Manage</b><span style="color: #212529;"> ( </span><b style="color: #212529;">Tanzu Mission Control</b><span style="color: #212529;"> ) for managing kubernetes and <span style="caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41);">containerised</span> applications across multiple clouds.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dedicated this article to talk more about <b>Tanzu Mission Control</b> and highlighting key points that we need to know about TMC,which falls under the category of <b>Manage</b> when looked into the overall VMware Tanzu Portfolio.</span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">VMware Tanzu Mission Control a.k.a TMC provides a single point for teams to manage their Kubernetes clusters, TMC is available as SaaS offering and is accessible via <b>VMware Cloud Services</b> (<a href="https://console.cloud.vmware.com/">https://console.cloud.vmware.com/</a>).</span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">We can can login</span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> via enterprise federation or by using our VMware ID and once logged in we need to get in touch with VMware to get VMWare Tanzu Mission Control enabled for our org.</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With TMC we can use API Based kubernetes service for centralising <b>cluster lifecycle management</b> across all environments,</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Clusters in TMC can be either <b>provisioned clusters </b>which are created in TMC and the entire lifecycle (Creation, Upgrades, Deletion) is managed by TMC or </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We can </span><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">attach clusters</b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> (clusters provisioned outside to VMware TMC ) and TMC doesn't manage the lifecycle of those clusters.</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Currently Amazon EC2 is the only available option under <b>Provisioned cluster</b> wherein we can specify <b>Cluster Group,</b> <b>AWS Cloud Provider Account </b>(Required when provisioning a cluster in public cloud), <b>Region</b>, <b>SSH</b> <b>Keys</b>, <b>Kubernetes Version</b> and <b>VPC</b> details when creating a new cluster.</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When <b>Attaching</b> the clusters in TMC we are registering already existing clusters like AKS, EKS,GKE, or any other kubernetes cluster with <b>VMware Tanzu Mission Control Service</b> so as the required cluster agent extensions can be installed on those clusters and the connection can be verified.</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The overall TMC architecture is govern via the policies which are applied to the <b>organization ></b> <b>cluster</b> <b>groups </b>and cascade down to the <b>clusters</b>, and there are majorly three types of policies in TMC 1) <b>Access policies</b> which helps us provide the <b>role base access control </b>to overall hierarchy 2) </span><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Network policies</b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> which helps us to restrict network communications defining how pods communicate with each other, by default there isn't any restriction and network policy is defined in TMC and 3)</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> I</span><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">mage registry</b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">policies</b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> for restricting image registries from which images can be pulled by default TMC doesn't impose any restrictions.</span></li>
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Kanishk Sethihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00557733584451423436noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6879731400314841975.post-84716032530235174022019-11-21T12:31:00.005+05:302019-11-21T12:31:47.285+05:30Vembu Office 365 & G Suite Backup v2.0 Beta now available<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "lato" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; word-spacing: 1px;">Vembu recently announced <b>Vembu Office 365 & G Suite Backup v2.0 (Beta) </b>this </span><span style="font-family: "lato" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; word-spacing: 1px;">beta release is packed with new features, enhancements and is </span><span style="font-family: "lato" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; word-spacing: 1px;">reliable and easy-to-use backup & recovery solution to protect the critical user data in Office 365 & G Suite.</span></div>
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<li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Vembu Office 365 Backup – Protect your Exchange Online (mail, calendar, contacts) & OneDrive</li>
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From v2.0, Vembu provides On-premise deployment support for Office 365 and G Suite Backup. This allows us to protect the Office 365 & G Suite data by backing up them to local storage.</div>
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Vembu on-premise installer for Office 365 Backup & G Suite Backup is available for Windows OS and comes with a 30-day FREE trial.</div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">File Retention lets us retain multiple versions of files that are backed up from OneDrive & Google Drive. The <b>default retention count is 5</b> (i.e, 5 versions of a specific file will be retained) and the <b>maximum retention count can be set up to 99</b>.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">With v2.0, OneDrive backup is supported for all the Office 365 users under the domain account. While the previous version supported OneDrive backup only for tenant admins.</span></div>
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We will now be able to backup Office 365 & G Suite user data to local storage (using the On-premise installer) and to Vembu Cloud (using <a href="https://saasbackup.vembu.com/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">saasbackup.vembu.com</span></a>) as per our requirement.</div>
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<li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Backup the entire domain account or at a user level</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Set the backup schedule and run automated daily backups (incremental)</li>
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<li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Restore the user data to same/different account</li>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="https://saasbackup.vembu.com/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">saasbackup.vembu.com</span></a></span></div>
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Kanishk Sethihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00557733584451423436noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6879731400314841975.post-56588168308297577532019-09-27T13:25:00.000+05:302019-09-27T13:29:14.158+05:30Vembu BDR Suite Free Edition - Now available with Full-Feature Backup support for up to 10 VMs<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Kanishk Sethihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00557733584451423436noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6879731400314841975.post-24987473214862609032019-03-05T17:11:00.004+05:302019-03-05T17:11:53.532+05:30How to Configure VMware vSphere HA Orchestrated Restart<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Kanishk Sethihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00557733584451423436noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6879731400314841975.post-80563141814963234342019-02-27T11:34:00.002+05:302019-02-27T11:34:49.343+05:30What do you expect from a free edition backup software ? <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Recently i got to know that </span><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Vembu</b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> is running a survey wherein we can participate and tell them about our expectation from a </span><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">free edition backup software</b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, and i was quite impress to know that Vembu is really doing this because it’s really important to understand the user expectations so as to groom your product accordingly which not only meets the demands of the current but also the upcoming users. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Vembu has been offering free edition since 2016 for </span><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">VMware</b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, </span><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hyper-V, Windows Server, Windows Workstation</b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> and are constantly improving the user experience of Vembu BDR Suite based on the feedback and requests received from the users.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I did my part by recently submitted this short survey wherein i highlighted the key features I am expecting from a free edition of the backup software from a wide range of feature available including </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Application Aware Backup Processing</b>, <b>Automatic Backup Scheduling</b>, <b>CBT</b></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> I</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> selected the one which i mostly use and want them to added as part of the free edition ranging from and many more to choose from. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As part of my preparation journey to achieve </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Google Cloud Certified </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">credentials I have been going through various articles and referring to official </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Google Cloud Documentation</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. Alongside i am also working on</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> study notes</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> which would not only help me to reach one step closer to </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Google Certifications</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> but would also be important in terms of quick reference whenever required. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;">Thought of dedicating a series of articles by sharing these notes which will not only help me but also to those individuals who are planning to start their journey with Google Cloud Platform.</span><br />
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This blog series will be focussing on core Google Cloud Platform Services which will help us prepare for </span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Associate Cloud Engineer Certification (</span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Good Starting point for someone who is starting their journey in GCP </span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">)</span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and </span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Professional Cloud Architect Certifications </span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(Design, Build and Manage Solutions on Google Cloud Platform) but can also be used as a quick reference to start with other certifications. </span></div>
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<li>While selecting the region and zone for our compute instances it's worth to distribute resources across multiple zones and region to <b>tolerate any outages</b>, all the zones are independent from one another which means that if there is a failure in that zone it's not going to affect any other zone within the same region.</li>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>On Saturday 16th Feb 2019</b> I attended VMware User Group- Delhi/NCR event in <span style="background-color: white; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">Le Méridien Gurgaon organised by Awesome community members, Amit Kumar Jain, Ankur Chopra and Raminder Singh.</span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The VMware User Group (</span><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal;">VMUG</b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">) is an independent, global, customer-led organization, created maximize members' use of VMware and partner solutions through knowledge sharing, training, collaboration, and events.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">The day started with a quick registration followed by the <b>Opening Keynote</b> delivered by <b>Murad Wagh SE Director @VMWare</b> talking about What's new with <b>Compute</b>, <b>Network</b>, <b>Software Defined Storage</b>, <b>Cloud Native Applications </b>and <b>VMware Cloud on AWS</b>. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Murad Wagh walked us through with <b>vSphere Platinum</b>, <b>Simplified vCenter Topology with Built in PSC</b>, <b>Trusted Platform Module and virtual Trusted Platform Module, vSphere Health </b>which is another powerful feature of VMware vSphere 6.7 to identify and resolve potential issues. Last but not the least <b>vMotion for NVIDIA Grid vGPU Virtual Machines</b> one of the topic which I love to hear about and is close to my heart </span>being a NVIDIA vGPU Community Advisor and an active VDI community member.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The next session was about Network Virtualization discussing current data challenges and how NSX can help to overcome those challenges with a deep dive on <b>NSX-T led by Raminder Singh - Technical Account Manager VMware and Inder - Consultant</b>, wherein they walked us through the complete architecture of NSX-T and also talked about Geneve being used in NSX-T for data encapsulation. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">IT Security led by <b>Pranay Jha</b> who is an <b>Infrastructure Architec</b>t and helped us to understand how to <b>improve IT security</b>, what are the various security boundaries, <b>Confidentiality,Integrity, Availability and Data Privacy and Data at rest, Data in Motion and Data in use.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Power of PKS was </b>the last session for the day led by Himanshu Taneja who talked about overview of <b>Containers</b> and also walked us through with the architectural overview of <b>Kubernetes</b>, now it was time of Q/A and some awesome GiveAway (</span><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">VMware vSAN 6.7 U1 Deep Dive Book by Cormac Hogan and Duncan Epping) </b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Well that's me receiving the book from <b>Pankaj Shukla</b> - Senior Manager SE @VMware</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Final Thoughts</b> - It was an amazing day with some fantastic sessions from <b>Keynote</b>, <b>IT Security</b> to deep dive on various verticals including <b>NSX-T</b> and <b>PKS</b> followed by meet and greet with various like minded people and discussing about how they are using VMware product features and functionalities in their environment. Looking forward for our next meet :-)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If you are in Delhi/NCR and associated with VMware or using VMware products this is the event you don't want to miss. <b><a href="https://community.vmug.com/communities/localcommunityhome?CommunityKey=06b23d2d-c604-4ea3-91c5-beded5f13ff8">Delhi NCR VMUG</a> .</b>In case you are one of those who are not in Delhi/NCR you can also search for local VMUG group in your region to attend VMUG community events <span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.vmug.com/">VMware User Group</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As promised the New- Back to Basics Series is here with some new posts and blogs from other verticals not just Server Virtualization (VMware vSphere ),for example this post is dedicated toward's the VMware’s End User Computing <b>focussing on VMware ThinApp</b>, few other blogs which are currently in draft for the *New back to basics series will be available soon and will be focussing on other products including <b>VMware vSAN</b>, <b>VMware NSX</b> and <b>VMware vSphere.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1 ) ThinApp is an <b>agent less application virtualization solution</b> which helps us accelerate the deployment of application delivery and also eliminate the burden of provisioning, patching and updating applications and images. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ThinApp virtualize the application by </span><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">encapsulating the application files and registry</b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> into a singe thin app package which can be deployed independently from the underlying operating system. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">4) <b>Sandbox</b> contains shadow directories for all native file directories that are affected during application runtime. <b>The Sandbox Directory </b>holds an <b>application's user-configurable</b> settings for example if one of the user want <b>www.vmware.com</b> as his home page however the other user may like to create <b>www.google.com</b> as his home page.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">** Sandbox <b>is not a Cache</b> it stores the<b> user settings persistently.</b><br /><br />5) The <b>application files and registry modifications</b> are done by the ThinApp packaging process which scans the native file system and registry before and after the installation of the application which we are planning to virtualize. During the pre and post installation phases <b>the snapshot.exe</b> utilitiy scans and records files attributes of each file in the file <b>system and registry keys</b>, it also compares the two snapshots and find out which files and registry key were changed so as they can be tracked in a separate T<b>hinApp project folder.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">6) Once <b>snapshot.exe</b> has determined the changed files those files are added to the <b>application project directory</b>, which then becomes the <b>Virtual File System</b> during the ThinApp Build process. W</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">hen <b>build.bat runs</b>, it starts the <b>vftool.exe tool (Compiles the virtual file system during the build process of the captured application)</b>, and builds entries in the<b> FS registry</b> key under <b>HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE</b>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">7) Virtual Registry stores the r<b>egistry settings used by the applications and ThinApp runtime</b>, after the <b>snapshot.exe</b> has determined which registry keys changed during the application installation and configuration, the keys are recorded in text files in the application project, and there are three main files <b>HKEY_CURRENT_USER.txt</b> , <b>HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE.txt</b> AND <b>HKEY_USERS.txt.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">8) We can control the level of interaction between the application and the native system by using different <b>Isolation Modes 1) Merged isolation mode is </b>the default isolation mode for file system wherein the updates to the files system and registry are <b>merged with native file system</b>. 2) <b>Write Copy File and Registry Isolation mode- </b>The user can read from the <b>native file system</b> and for write operations the user writes to a copy of native file system in the Sandbox. 3) <b>Full File and Registry Isolation Mode </b>means that the user can neither read nor write to the native file system.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">9) ThinApp Application package can be deployed in various modes 1) <b>Deployed Execution Mode </b>wherein the <b>package (executable file)</b> is first deployed to end user's system and then accessed from local device, user's execute the copy of ThinApp package like any other natively installed windows application. 2) <b>Streaming Execution Mode - </b>As the name suggests enables the application to be centrally stored and accessed by multiple users wherein the package loads directly into memory and no disk storage is required.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">10) <b>VMware ThinApp 5.2.4</b> is the latest version released in September 2018 with additional support for <b>Windows 10 1709</b> and <b>Windows 10 1803</b> and an additional parameter availability in package.ini </span><tt style="box-sizing: border-box; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b>ReleaseShutdownLocksEarly,</b></span></tt><span style="background-color: #fafafa; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"> </span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">Setting this parameter to</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"> </span><span style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b>1</b></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"> fixes an issue that could cause a process to hang during shutdown</span></span><span style="background-color: #fafafa; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Handling New Disk Addition </b>- In the older versions of Vembu BDR suite any</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> newly added disk to a Virtual Machine on ESXi and Hyper-V was backed up only during the next full backup.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">From v4.0, the new disk additions are designed to be </span><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">detected</b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> and </span><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">considered</b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> for back up on the next i</span><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ncremental schedule.</b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Live Recovery to VMware ESXi and Hyper-v </b>has now been enhanced where in we can configure the hardware specifications of the target hosts including socket and core counts, memory and hard disk provision type when performing permanent recovery.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">All new <b>credential Manager</b> helps to manage the credentials of the <b>VM hosts</b>, <b>guest Virtual Machines and physical computers </b>avoiding the need of entering the credentials every time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We can now <b>activate or deactivate</b> Vembu BDR Servers from Vembu OffsiteDR if we wish to <b>stop the backup replication</b> to the Disaster Recovery Site.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Quick VM Recovery Report </b>provides us with an insight into <b>virtual machine recovery job </b>with details like the <b>RTO</b>, <b>start time and end time</b> and also help us with the some other filters including the name of the VM being triggered for recovery and the target server.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">NVIDIA recently announced that <b>Quadro Virtual Workstation vWS</b> is now available on <b>Microsoft Azure Marketplace</b> helping engineers to achieve<b> high performance simulation</b>, <b>rendering</b> and <b>design</b> <b>w</b></span><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ith NVIDIA Virtual Machine Image (VMI) and Quadro vWS software pre-installed </b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">enterprise customers can spin up Microsoft Azure VM in minutes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It’s been more than six months that I haven’t been blogging because of some personal issues, and now that things are finally back on track would be more actively blogging and talking about various enhancements being made in VMware’s </span><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">SDDC</b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, </span><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">NVIDIA’s GRID</b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, </span><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Business Continuity</b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">,</span><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Backup & Disaster Recovery</b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> and <b>Cloud</b> (AWS, GCP, Alibaba Cloud, <span style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69);">Microsoft</span> Azure).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>New Back to Basic Series</b></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- I have been dedicating many articles in this series talking about core features available in VMware vSphere to help you get started with Server Virtualization journey, in case you missed it here is the link to refer. </span><a href="http://blog.kanishksethi.in/2017/11/back-to-basics-part-17-vmware-vsphere.html"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Back to Basics Part 7</span></a><br />
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Kanishk Sethihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00557733584451423436noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6879731400314841975.post-87027355309535213292018-07-10T10:26:00.002+05:302018-07-10T10:26:41.690+05:30VMware vSphere Certificate Management<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In this blog will be focussing on how vSphere Manages Certificates using </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">VMware Certificate Authority (VMCA)</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and also talk about different type of certificate managed by VMCA including </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">CA certificates,</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Solutions Users Certificates</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Machine Certificates (SSL)</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. But before we go ahead with VMCA let’s talk about certificates in general and discuss about certificates authority.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Public key</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> or </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Digital Certificates</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> are electronic documents which are digitally signed by a trusted certificate source for example </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Certificate Authority</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, a certificate can be signed by a CA or it can also be self signed however other parties are not likely to trust certificates as these signing certificates that are used are not embedded in their system, we can make use of self signed certificates for internal use by adding the public key to all the internal systems so as they can trust the </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Self - Signed certificates.</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Certificate Authority </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">plays an important role in </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Public Key Infrastructure systems (PKI)</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> where a </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">SSL or TLS </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">client connects to a server and the server sends it Public Key to the Client to Authenticate the server, the exchange of Public Key is not done through </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Plain text</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> however</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> X.509 certificate (</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Server Name and Public Key</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">)</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> is sent to the client</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. Client </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">trusts the CA because client already has the CA’s Public Key which was preinstalled (Safari, Firefox, IE) or manually installed by us.</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In VMware vSphere 5.x and earlier versions each service listed on a defined port for example (</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">vpxd</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">443</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">,</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Apache Tomcat 8443</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Inventory Service 10433, vCenter Single-Sign On 7444, vSphere Web Client 9443 and so on,</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> required it’s own certificate because the authentication methodology was based on </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">SSL thumbprint trust</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> which has to be unique, Starting from vSphere 6.0 the individual service endpoints has been replaced by a </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">reverse HTTP proxy</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> which routes traffic to appropriate service based on the type of incoming request.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">With VMware vSphere 6.0 </span><span style="color: black; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">VMware Certificate Authority</span><span style="color: black; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> provisions each ESXi hosts and each vCenter Server service with certificates that are signed by </span><span style="color: black; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">VMware CA by default</span><span style="color: black; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and are stored in </span><span style="color: black; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">VMware Endpoint Certificate Store (VECS) </span><span style="color: black; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">implemented using </span><span style="color: black; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">VMware Authentication </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Framework Daemon</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and finally used by </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">vCenter Single-Sign and VMDIR. Confused ? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Let’s try to simplify it using an example wherein </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">VMware CA</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> is the Bank who has Issued the ATM CARD</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, VECS </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">is your wallet where you are going to store ATM CARD and finally <b>SSO</b> is the ATM CARD Machine where you need to show your ATM card so as it can verify the authenticity of you as a Valid user and can issue you money.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Vembu<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> announced the latest release of their flagship offering, i.e. <b>Vembu BDR Suite v3.9.1 </b>which includes <b>standard edition</b> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">which is designed and priced by keeping the Small and Medium businesses in mind, which will help them meet the modern SLAs for backup and recovery.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #222222;">In the previous versions, Vembu BDR Suite was available only in the single edition for all businesses. However with the latest release of v3.9.1, Vembu BDR Suite is now available in 3 editions: <b>Free</b>,</span><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222;"> Standard and Enterprise</strong><span style="color: #222222;">.<b> </b></span></span><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.vembu.com/vembu-bdr-suite-free-vs-paid-edition/" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;">Vembu BDR Suite Edition Comparison</span></a></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">** <span style="color: #222222;">Vembu also offers a flat 50% discount with Vembu VMBackup for Small and Mid-sized businesses that sustain with environments upto 6 CPU sockets.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The most daunting task for SMBs in implementing a BDR solution for their IT infrastructure is the budgetary constraints. Considering this in mind, Vembu announced the Standard edition of its flagship offering to keep the cost of the product affordable for everyone.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://www.vembu.com/vembu-vmbackup-standard-edition/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Vembu BDR Suite – Standard Edition</span></a></strong><span style="color: #222222;">, comprises a rich set of backup and disaster recovery features for SMB data center needs. The objective is to offer a powerful and hassle-free data protection solution to Small and Medium Businesses at an <b>affordable price</b>.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #222222;">With this new standard edition of Vembu BDR Suite, SMBs can protect their entire virtual IT infrastructure with predominant features like Agentless </span><span style="color: blue;"><b><a href="https://www.vembu.com/vembu-vmbackup/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">VM backup for VMware and Hyper-V</span></a>, <a href="https://www.vembu.com/quick-vm-recovery/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Quick VM recovery</span></a></b> </span><span style="color: #222222;"><b>Instant File Recovery</b>, <b>Granular recovery for MS applications to ensure RTO less than 15 minutes.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Businesses can add any type of storages to meet their retention and storage needs. The Standard Edition of Vembu BDR Suite also offers inbuilt <b>compression</b> and <b>deduplication</b> to use the storage resources efficiently. And, through <b>AES-256 encryption algorithm</b>, it assures data security at flight and on rest.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The price points have been worked upon this time. Vembu extensively looked into their customer base and analyzed from various fronts like the features a medium business wanted and their ability to spend.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Small businesses didn’t want to shell out for products that had way too many features than required. They didn’t want to spend on what they didn’t need.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #222222;">Vembu agreed with them. Although their pricing has been very affordable for the features Vembu offered, they decided to make it even simpler with their </span><a href="https://www.vembu.com/vembu-bdr-suite-pricing/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: blue;">Standard Edition</span></b></a><span style="color: #222222;">.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Standard Edition for VMware Backup is priced at <b>USD 216/CPU-socket/annum</b>. If our requirement comes under <b>6 CPU sockets</b>, we can get an additional discount of 50% that could lead to <b>USD 108/CPU-socket/annum!</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Standard Edition for Hyper-V Backup also has surprises. Priced at a reasonable USD <b>144/CPU-socket/annum</b>, it gets down to <b>USD 72/CPU-socket/annum</b> if it falls under the above-mentioned discount category.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Generally, implementing a BDR Solution is preferred to ensure data availability at all times for continuous business operations. With the new Standard Edition of Vembu BDR Suite, the SMBs can now enforce the best Backup and Disaster recovery solution in their IT environment at a reasonable price to achieve superior data protection along with Business Continuity.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The v3.9.1 edition comes with significant enhancements and bug fixes aimed at improving the performance of our flagship offering Vembu BDR Suite.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">No m<b>atter how simple or complex IT environment is, the </b>Standard Edition of Vembu BDR Suite will be a competent BDR solution for our business, thereby ensuring the right value for our money.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.vembu.com/vembu-bdr-suite-download/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;"><b>Download Vembu BDR Suite v3.9.1</b></span></a> </span><span style="color: #222222;">today and experience the best modern data protection for your environment. The release notes are available </span><a href="https://www.vembu.com/vembu-bdr-suite-release-notes/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;"><b>here</b></span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #222222;">Interested in trying Vembu BDR suite?, </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><a href="https://www.vembu.com/vembu-bdr-suite-download/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;"><b>Try Now on a 30-days free trial</b></span></a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have dedicated couple of blog posts earlier in vRealize Automation section wherein we discussed about <b>Installation</b>, <b>Architecture</b>, <b>Roles and Layers</b>, <b>Creating blueprints</b>, <b>Custom properties</b> and <b>What's new with the latest releases. Here </b>are few links for quick reference </span><a href="http://blog.kanishksethi.in/2015/12/vrealize-automation-installation-part-1.html">v<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Realize Automation Installation Part 1</span></a>, <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://blog.kanishksethi.in/2015/12/vrealize-automation-installation-part-2_28.html">vRealize Automation Installation Part 2</a> , </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://blog.kanishksethi.in/2016/02/vra-layers-and-roles.html">vRA Roles and Layers</a> , </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://blog.kanishksethi.in/2017/09/vmware-vrealize-automation-architecture.html">vRealize Automation Architecture</a> , </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://blog.kanishksethi.in/2016/02/provisioning-machines-in-vra.html">Provisioning Machines in vRA</a> , </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://blog.kanishksethi.in/2016/02/multi-machine-blueprint.html">Multi Machine Blueprints</a> , </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://blog.kanishksethi.in/2016/02/custom-properties.html">Custom Properties</a> , and </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://blog.kanishksethi.in/2016/05/whats-new-vrealize-automation-7.html">What's New in vRA7</a>.</span><div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Recently did the fresh installation of vRA 7.0 in my Home Lab environment and added another tenant <b>QA</b>, <b>synced users</b> and also configured <b>branding</b> and <b>created fabric groups</b> so thought of dedicating a <b>series of blog post </b>which will serve as step by step guide for my reference and also help others to understand the procedure from creating a <b>Tenant</b>, configuring <b>Branding</b>, adding users, creating <b>Fabric Groups</b>, <b>Creating machine prefixes</b> and also talk about the creation of <b>reservation policies</b>, <b>business groups</b>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The steps involved when creating/configuring a tenant is to access the default tenant (<b>vSphere.local</b>) and name the new <b>Tenant</b>/ <b>Create a tenant specific URL</b> and finally specify the users who can access the <b>Tenant</b> and can assign the <b>Tenant and Administrator</b> roles to the newly created users.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As shown in the above screenshot I logged in to my default tenant and created a new tenant (QA) after providing some details including the Name of the new <b>Tenant / Description/URL/Contact Email. </b>Next task on the list is to add local users and assigning them <b>Tenant Administrators/ IaaS administrator roles and </b>do some branding for our newly created tenant QA.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After the successful creation of my new tenant QA and giving the local users the IaaS administrator and Tenant Administrator roles it was time for me to access the newly created Tenant <b>https://vRealize Automation Appliance FQDN /VCAC/ORG/Qa/Domain</b> and do some Branding for the same. </span></div>
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Be it physical or virtual machine data, Vembu Universal Explorer recovers application items from </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Microsoft Exchange</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">SharePoint</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">SQL</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Active Directory</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> without restoring the entire VM backup and disk image backup. Vembu has turned down all the difficulties faced by an IT administrator in restoring the Microsoft applications and related items through Vembu Universal Explorer. It provides an easy-to-use and intuitive UI, so the user can browse the required application items easily from the backed up data without any complication and restore to live application servers or download them into specific formats.</span></span></div>
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Kanishk Sethihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00557733584451423436noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6879731400314841975.post-35530845887713392492018-01-21T21:56:00.002+05:302018-01-21T21:56:31.687+05:30Vembu BDR Suite v3.9.0 is now GA<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It is highly important that data needs to be backed up and there should be an effective Disaster Recovery plan in case of data threat or a catastrophe. While data continues to grow and there are number of technology providers who offer better and comprehensive storage techniques to businesses, there has not been an alternative to the concept of backup. While costs are a major factor for businesses, having a steady backup plan to counter data threats and compliant to strict regulatory standards(including the upcoming <a href="https://www.vembu.com/eu-general-data-protection-regulation-gdpr/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 85, 204); line-height: normal;">EU’s GDPR</span></a>) is necessary. Be it virtual environment backup like <a href="https://www.vembu.com/vmware-backup/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 85, 204); line-height: normal;">VMware Backup</span></a>, <a href="https://www.vembu.com/hyper-v-backup/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 85, 204); line-height: normal;">Microsoft Hyper-V Backup</span></a> or legacy environment backup like <a href="https://www.vembu.com/windows-server-backup/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 85, 204); line-height: normal;">Windows Server Backup</span></a>, Workstation backup, Vembu BDR Suite has been offering Backup & Recovery with their own file-system, <a href="https://www.vembu.com/efficient-storage-management/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 85, 204); line-height: normal;">VembuHIVE</span></a> thereby easing the backup process, storage management at an extremely affordable pricing. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Last week, they did announce the release of Vembu BDR Suite v3.9.0 which offers manifold features and enhancements to meet the different needs of Diverse IT environments. According to them, the overall goal of the new version v3.9.0 is to provide advancements in terms of Storage, Security, and Data Restoration. </span></span></div>
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that there has been a lot of enhancements made to the product with every
release, I have already dedicated couple of articles covering the various
features and functionalities here are
the quick reference link </span><a href="http://blog.kanishksethi.in/2017/10/vembu-bdr-suite-free-vs-paid-edition.html" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;">Vembu BDR
Suite Paid vs Free Edition</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> , </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://blog.kanishksethi.in/2017/07/10-things-we-need-to-know-vembu-cloud_10.html">10 Things
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been made to Vembu BDR in couple of months be it the super saver <b>Perpetual Licensing Model</b> or the <b>GDPR compliance enablement</b> in <b>Vembu BDR</b> suite being offered.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Launching the latest perpetual licensing, Vembu look
forward to provide more flexibility with the pricing. The Vembu BDR Suite which
was available earlier at the subscription pricing model is now available at
perpetual licensing, thereby helping IT environments fulfill their requirements
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<b>Perpetual License</b> entitles the end user to use the software indefinitely
with one year <b>of Technical</b> <b>support and Product Updates</b> included in
the Perpetual license. Even after the <b>expiry</b>
of the one-year <b>maintenance period</b>,
the product <b>continues to work</b> but to
receive further Technical Support and Software updates, the end user need to
purchase the Annual Support and Upgrade plan. To experience the Support and
Updates, the customer is charged the <b>Annual
Maintenance Cost (AMC)</b> which is 20% of the original license price. The
Customer can either choose to continue with the same version of the software or
can pay the AMC and switch to the new update of the software. The best part is
that there are <b>no penalties if there is
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Since the purchase of Vembu’s Perpetual License is a
Long-term investment by end users, Vembu continually increase their value in an
unprecedented way. Thus, the end user’s customers can now opt for <b>Perpetual License by paying the initial
cost </b>and can use the software endlessly plus paying the AMC will allow them
to entitle all the updates and support from Vembu. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In the aim of setting firm footprints across the globe by catering
one of the most comprehensive backup and disaster recovery solution at an
affordable pricing, Vembu unfolds its <b>New
Service Provider Program</b> that would provide service providers a great scope
for huge benefits and discounts with the Vembu BDR Suite v3.8.0.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br />If you are a </span><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Cloud Service Provider (CSP),</b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Managed
Service Provider (MSP)</b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> or anyone involved in IT Solution Delivery and
offering </span><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Backup as a Service (BaaS) and
Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS)</b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> to your customers without
compromising the business continuity of your customers, the Vembu BDR Suite has
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(Regulation (EU) 2016/679) is a </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">regulation by which the European Parliament, the Council of the European Union and the European Commission intend to strengthen and unify data protection for all individuals within the European
Union (EU). It also addresses the export of
personal data outside the EU. The GDPR aims primarily to <b>give control back to citizens</b> and residents <b>over their personal data</b> and to simplify the regulatory environment
for international business by unifying
the regulation within the EU When the GDPR takes effect, it will replace
the data protection directive (officially Directive 95/46/EC) of 1995.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Addressing customers’ concern have always been Vembu’ s top priority.
The Vembu BDR Suite does comply with the new regulation and will make the <b>users the real data owner</b>. Complying
with industry standards and policies has always been one of Vembu BDR Suite’s
core attributes and the GDPR is no exception as well.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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inevitable norm. But what is to be known is, there is not one software that
would uphold all the principles of it. One of the most important fact about
security compliances are the stringent measures to be followed by organizations
to protect the <b>critical customer</b>
data. Vembu uses patented and in-house </span><a href="https://www.vembu.com/efficient-storage-management/"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">file system</span></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"> to
store the data in <b>chunk files</b> thus
making it unreadable unless it is restored by the administrator as per process.
Vembu also uses federally acclaimed <b>AES
256-bit algorithm to encrypt the data</b> while transfer and at-rest while data
is compressed, deduped to make suit the storage needs of a business.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Series</b> we discussed about <a href="http://blog.kanishksethi.in/2016/04/back-to-basics-virtual-machine-files.html"><span style="color: blue;">Virtual MachineFiles</span></a> (Part1),<span style="color: blue;"> <a href="http://blog.kanishksethi.in/2016/04/back-to-basics-standard-switches.html"><span style="color: blue;">Standard Switches</span></a> </span>(Part2), <a href="http://blog.kanishksethi.in/2016/05/back-to-basics-part-3-vcenter-server.html">vCenter Server</a> (Part 3),</span><span style="background: white;"><a href="http://blog.kanishksethi.in/2016/05/back-to-basics-part-4-templates.html">Templates</a> </span><span style="background: white;">(Part4) <a href="http://blog.kanishksethi.in/2016/05/back-to-basics-part-5-vapp.html">vApp</a> (Part 5), <span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://blog.kanishksethi.in/2016/05/back-to-basics-part-6-migration.html">Migration</a> </span>(Part 6),<a href="http://blog.kanishksethi.in/2016/05/back-to-basics-part-7-cloning.html">Cloning</a> (Part 7), <a href="http://blog.kanishksethi.in/2016/05/back-to-basics-part-8-host-profiles.html">Host Profiles</a> (Part 8), <a href="http://blog.kanishksethi.in/2015/11/virtual-volumes-aka-vvols.html">Virtual Volumes AKA VVOL's</a> (Part
9) <a href="http://blog.kanishksethi.in/2016/07/back-to-basics-part-10-fault-tolerance.html">Fault Tolerance</a> (Part10) ,<a href="http://blog.kanishksethi.in/2016/07/back-to-basics-part-11-distributed.html">DistributedSwitches</a> (Part
11) and <a href="http://blog.kanishksethi.in/2016/11/back-to-basics-part-12-distributed.html">Distributed Resource Scheduler</a> Part
12, <a href="http://blog.kanishksethi.in/2017/04/back-to-basics-part-13-vcenter-server.html">vCenter Server High Availability</a> (Part
13),<a href="http://blog.kanishksethi.in/2017/05/back-to-basics-part-14-creating-reports.html" target="_blank">Back to Basics (Part -14) Creating
Reports in VROPS</a>,</span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://blog.kanishksethi.in/2017/05/back-to-basics-part-15-understanding.html">Back to Basics- Part 15 Understanding VMware App Volumes</a> and </span><a href="http://blog.kanishksethi.in/2017/11/back-to-basics-part-16-understanding.html" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Back to Basics- Part 16 Understanding VMware vSphere ESXi Shell and SSH Timeouts</a><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">we also discussed about the various tasks
related to building </span><a href="http://blog.kanishksethi.in/2016/04/back-to-basics-home-lab-part-1.html" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Home Lab Part1</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, </span><a href="http://blog.kanishksethi.in/2016/04/back-to-basics-home-lab-part-2.html" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Part 2</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, </span><a href="http://blog.kanishksethi.in/2016/04/back-to-basics-home-lab-part-3.html" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Part 3</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">,</span><a href="http://blog.kanishksethi.in/2016/04/back-to-basics-home-lab-part-4.html" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Part 4</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><a href="http://blog.kanishksethi.in/2016/04/back-to-basics-home-lab-part-5.html" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Part 5</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">VMware vSphere Authentication Proxy Service is useful when working with <b>Auto Deploy </b>where we can setup a reference host pointing towards <b>Authentication Proxy Service </b>and configuring a <b>rule </b>that applies this reference host profile to all other ESXi hosts provisioned using Auto Deploy. Using the service we can enhanced the security of ESXi hosts provisioned through Auto Deploy by removing the dependency to store <b>AD credentials in Host Configuration</b>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">When we use the <b>vSphere Authentication Proxy</b>, we do not need to transmit <b>Active Directory credentials to the host</b>. We can provide the domain name of the Active Directory server and the IP address of the authentication proxy server while adding the ESXi host to a domain.</span></div>
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Kanishk Sethihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00557733584451423436noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6879731400314841975.post-17841850213405585272017-11-23T21:36:00.004+05:302017-11-23T21:36:57.183+05:30Back to Basics- Part 16 Understanding VMware vSphere ESXi Shell and SSH Timeouts<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.2px;">I</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.2px;">n our last blog posts related to </span><b style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.2px;">Back to Basics Series</b><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.2px;"> we discussed about</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.2px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.2px;"><a href="http://blog.kanishksethi.in/2016/04/back-to-basics-virtual-machine-files.html" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: blue;">Virtual Machine</span> <span style="color: blue;">Files</span></a> </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.2px;">(Part1)</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.2px;">, </span><a href="http://blog.kanishksethi.in/2016/04/back-to-basics-standard-switches.html" style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.2px; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: blue;">Standard Switches</span></a><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.2px;"> (Part2), <a href="http://blog.kanishksethi.in/2016/05/back-to-basics-part-3-vcenter-server.html" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: blue;">vCenter Server</span></a> (Part 3),<span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://blog.kanishksethi.in/2016/05/back-to-basics-part-4-templates.html" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Templates</a> </span>(Part4) <a href="http://blog.kanishksethi.in/2016/05/back-to-basics-part-5-vapp.html" style="text-decoration-line: none;">vApp</a> (Part 5), <a href="http://blog.kanishksethi.in/2016/05/back-to-basics-part-6-migration.html" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Migration</a> (Part 6),<a href="http://blog.kanishksethi.in/2016/05/back-to-basics-part-7-cloning.html" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Cloning</a> (Part 7), <a href="http://blog.kanishksethi.in/2016/05/back-to-basics-part-8-host-profiles.html" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Host Profiles</a> (Part 8), <a href="http://blog.kanishksethi.in/2015/11/virtual-volumes-aka-vvols.html" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Virtual Volumes AKA VVOL's</a> (Part 9) <a href="http://blog.kanishksethi.in/2016/07/back-to-basics-part-10-fault-tolerance.html" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Fault Tolerance</a> (Part10) ,<a href="http://blog.kanishksethi.in/2016/07/back-to-basics-part-11-distributed.html" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Distributed Switches</a> (Part 11) and <a href="http://blog.kanishksethi.in/2016/11/back-to-basics-part-12-distributed.html" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Distributed Resource Scheduler</a> Part 12, <a href="http://blog.kanishksethi.in/2017/04/back-to-basics-part-13-vcenter-server.html" style="text-decoration-line: none;">vCenter Server High Availability</a> (Part 13) ,<a href="http://blog.kanishksethi.in/2017/05/back-to-basics-part-14-creating-reports.html" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Back to Basics (<span style="color: black;">Part -14</span>) Creating Reports in VROPS</a> and </span></span><br />
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<a href="http://blog.kanishksethi.in/2017/05/back-to-basics-part-15-understanding.html" style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: blue;">Back to Basics- Part 15 Understanding VMware App Volumes</span></span></a></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.2px;">we also discussed about the various tasks related to building </span><a href="http://blog.kanishksethi.in/2016/04/back-to-basics-home-lab-part-1.html" style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.2px; text-decoration-line: none;">Home Lab Part1</a><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.2px;">, </span><a href="http://blog.kanishksethi.in/2016/04/back-to-basics-home-lab-part-2.html" style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.2px; text-decoration-line: none;">Part 2</a><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.2px;">, </span><a href="http://blog.kanishksethi.in/2016/04/back-to-basics-home-lab-part-3.html" style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.2px; text-decoration-line: none;">Part 3</a><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.2px;">,</span><span style="background-color: white;"><a href="http://blog.kanishksethi.in/2016/04/back-to-basics-home-lab-part-4.html" style="line-height: 18.2px; text-decoration-line: none;">Part 4</a><span style="line-height: 18.2px; widows: 1;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.2px;"><span style="line-height: 18.2px;"><a href="http://blog.kanishksethi.in/2016/04/back-to-basics-home-lab-part-5.html" style="line-height: 18.2px; text-decoration-line: none;">Part 5</a>.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Availability timeout values</b> talks about how long the <b>SSH </b>and <b>ESXi shell </b>remains enabled, the default value for both <b>SSH and ESXi Shell</b> is <b>0 </b>means both SSH and Shell remains enabled until <b>Disabled Manually</b>, however any value i.e <b>1 or Higher</b> Indicates how <b>many seconds in web client</b> and <b>how many minutes in DCUI</b> the service remains enabled before being <b>automatically disabled</b>.</span><br />
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6.5 topology and upgrade planning tool</b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, the tool has been designed keeping
in mind the </span><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">vSphere upgrade from 5.5 or 6.0 to 6.5</b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> and focuses on new </span><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">vSphere
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6.5 Deployment option is straightforward wherein we must select the number of </span><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">vCenter
Servers</b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> we are planning to use in the deployment + </span><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">approximate number 6.5
ESXi</b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> + whether the </span><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">enhanced linked mode</b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> will be used or not and last
but not the least whether you would like to make use of vCenter HA which is new
feature that has been made available with vSphere 6.5 which provides us with </span><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Active
/ Passive and witness nodes</b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> for vCenter Server with Recovery Time Objective
of </span><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">5 Minutes </b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">we can read more about vCenter Server High Availability in
the blog </span><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.vembu.com/blog/10-things-need-know-vcenter-server-6-5/"><span style="color: blue;">10
Things We Need to Know about vCenter Server 6.5</span></a></b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">. Once we answered all
the questions the Topology and Upgrade Planning tool give us the recommended
topology as shown below where I have selected </span><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">vCenter HA and Enhanced Linked
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plans to Upgrade to vSphere 6.5 we can simply go to<b> <a href="https://vspherecentral.vmware.com/path-finder"><span style="color: blue;">vSphere 6.5 Topology and
Upgrade Planning Tool</span></a> </b>and select Upgrade to vSphere 6.5 by providing
details including whether the current version, we are running is 5.5 or 6.0.
Based on whether the current vCenter version is 5.5 or 6.0 we can provide
further details for example we are using single <b>vCenter with Embedded PSC or
External PSC</b> or maybe we are using multiple vCenter Servers with Embedded /
External PSC. Based on the option we select the next questions may vary more
like a flowchart wherein we specify yes or no and the next question depends on
last response.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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we are running with vCenter Server version older than 5.5 we must first upgrade
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browsing through the tool, I must say that I am impressed with the information
this tool can provide, using this tool we no longer need to hop in to multiple
sites for <b>deployment guides </b>and <b>reference architecture</b>, rather we
can answer questions here and let the tool give us all the <b>pre-and post
upgrades guides</b> and <b>upgrade resources</b> that we need for the upgrade. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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