Backing up your virtual machines (VMs) is a crucial step in protecting your business against data loss and downtime. The size and technologies used in your data center will determine the backup and recovery products that are most suitable for your needs. While this article focuses specifically on the VMware environment, it is important to […]
VMware vSphere
Backup Solution for VMware vSphere v8 / vCenter v8
Are you looking for a VMware vSphere 8-supported enterprise backup tool? VMware vSphere 8 is a next-gen hypervisor to host enterprise workloads on both ONPREM and Cloud. It also supports GPU-based acceleration and is integrated with Kubernetes to support microservices. Most of the workloads will be migrated to the microservices platform by 2025. VMware Tanzu is exclusively […]
BDRSuite – VM Backup – Protect mission-critical VMware vSphere
Due to rapid technological changes, Backup technologies should be smart enough to protect the data in an efficient manner. VMware vSphere is the most widely used hypervisor for virtualization. It supports both windows and Linux guest operating systems on the x86 hardware. BDRsuite is a robust, reliable, and scalable Backup & DR Solution for your […]
BDRSuite – Backup for Linux Endpoints
Protecting customer data on their workstation and laptop is very essential. Most of the uncommitted valuable data reside in Laptops and Desktops. Most Organizations protect the endpoints using regular backups and recover the data in no time in case of hardware failures or accidental deletion. This article will walk you through how to install and […]
BDRSuite v5.2 – Recover ONPREM VM on Azure Quickly
BDRSuite v5.2 is generally available now. BRDSuite v5.2 includes multiple features including restoring the VMware VMs, Hyper-V VMs, Windows Servers & Windows Workstations backups to Microsoft Azure. It also brings On-demand backup scheduling for Microsoft 365 backups, User-level backup report for Microsoft-365, and On-demand backup scheduling for Google Workspace backups. This article will walk you […]
Protect VMware estate using Dell EMC Networker – vProxy appliance
Dell EMC NetWorker provides the ability to perform virtual machine backup and recovery by using the NetWorker VMware Protection solution with the vProxy appliance. It does support vSAN datastore for its virtual appliance known as vProxy, it supports running image backups and restores virtual machines running on vSAN datastores. NetWorker directly manages the vProxy appliances […]
RVTools 3.11.9 – Simple VMware vSphere Reporting Tool
RVTools is one of the promising reporting tools for VMware vSphere since 2008. It’s a windows based tool which requires .NET 4.6.1 framework to pull the virtual environments information using VI SDK. It supports all the version of the vSphere environment. It can directly connect with vCenter or ESXi (If standalone) to get all the […]
VMware vSphere – How to identify Distributed Switch ID / Portgroupkey ?
VMware vSphere Distributed Switch (VDS) provides a centralized interface to manage the virtual machine’s network for the entire datacenter. Unlike vSphere Standard Switch (VSS), Distributed Switch (VDS) shows the network as an aggregated resource. In VMware vSphere 6.7, VMware vCenter Server instance can support up to 128 VDS and each VDS can manage up to […]
VMware vSphere – How to break VCSA 6.5/6.7 root password ?
How to recover the lost vCenter Server Appliance(VCSA 6.5 & above) root password? The vCenter Server Appliance is a preconfigured Linux virtual machine. vSphere 6.7 U1 is the last release to include vCenter Server for Windows, which has been deprecated. vCenter Server Appliance is a very simple vCenter platform compares to the windows-based vC. Since vCenter server […]
govmomi – Installing and configuring govc-cli for vSphere
govmomi is a “Go” library for interacting with VMware vSphere APIs (ESXi and/or vCenter) and it’s built using VMware vSphere SDK. govmomi project has more than 1000 GitHub stars and used by many opensource projects including terraform, Kubernetes, kops etc. govc is a vSphere CLI built on top of govmomi. It’s written in Go language […]