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 […]
Windows
Best Backup Software for Hyper-V/VMware environments
Microsoft Hyper-V is one of the popular hypervisors in modern data centers. It helps to host multiple virtual machines in single physical hardware to save space and power. Hyper-V provides flexibility to operate your workload in your private cloud environment in the most efficient way. It also supports the VDI environment which provides a centralized […]
Veeam Backup for AWS – Deploy and configure
How to deploy Veeam Backup for the AWS solution? Veeam Backup for Amazon Web Services is a solution developed to protect Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS), and Amazon Elastic File System (EFS) environments. The same product can able to handle disaster recovery tasks with ease by leveraging cloud native snapshots. Adding […]
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 […]
AWS SSM Stage Manager – Custom SSM documents for Monitoring
AWS Systems Manager State Manager is a secure and scalable configuration management service that automates the process of keeping your Amazon EC2 and hybrid infrastructure in a state that you define. In our solution, we will use a state manager for running custom scripts for monitoring and alerting through the Event Bridge + SNS solution. […]
AWS SSM Patch Manager – Automation
AWS Systems Manager Patch Manager automates the process of patching managed instances. In the last article, we have seen how to use the predefined baselines for windows and Linux instance patching using the “Patch now” method. In this article, we see how to group the instances and schedule the patching based on the patch group. […]
Patch Windows & Linux using AWS SSM Patch Manager
How to use AWS SSM Patch Manager? AWS SSM Patch Manager provides a secure patching experience for both Windows and Linux operating systems. Like other AWS services, AWS SSM can be easily integrated with other services like AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM), AWS CloudTrail, and Amazon EventBridge for notification and the ability to audit […]
Why shell script is giving syntax errors without any issue? The same scripts work in another system
Why shell script is giving syntax errors despite no issue with the script? You might check the script multiple times but still couldn’t figure out what’s causing the problem? I personally come across a similar problem whenever I copy the script from a windows laptop to *NIX systems. The error message contains “syntax error near […]
Holistic Operational Management – AWS Systems Manager
AWS Systems Manager helps you manage your EC2 instances and On-Premise systems at scale. You can easily get operations insights about the state of your infrastructure. It helps to detect instance issues easily and also it could be patching automation solution to enhance compliance. AWS Systems Manager works for both windows and Linux operating systems […]
Ansible – Configure Windows servers as Ansible Client – winrm
Ansible is not just for Linux. It can also be used for Windows servers automation. This article will explain how to prepare windows servers for Ansible automation. Ansible uses WinRM protocol to establish a connection with Windows hosts. (i.e Linux/Unix like hosts uses SSH protocol). Ansible requires PowerShell 3.0 or newer and at least .NET […]