Google Cloud VMware Engine (GCVE) has been in market for a while, but this is the first time I get chance to take a closer look into the GCVE solution. For VMware enthusiast, Google did provide an impressive solution (same as AWS and Azure) to allow the existing on-premise VMware virtual machines to be transparently lift-and-shifted into public cloud environment.
Azure Site Recovery is one of the most useful Azure tools to setup the server DR solution between on-promise and Azure. It replicates workloads running on physical and virtual machines (VMs) from a primary site (mostly on-promise) to Azure. When an outage occurs at primary site, the on-promise VM can be failed over to Azure and access servers and apps from there.
In August 31, 2021, Azure released a Public Preview of a new Azure Site Recovery version (Preview version). This post is to list the key differences the Preview versions and Classic version for quick readers.
Continue readingI recently have a task to review the DNS settings for more than 100 Windows servers in the same domain. I drafted a simple PowerShell script to perform the Windows DNS checking and export all the server DNS configuration into a CSV file.
Continue readingHPE StoreOnce is a deduplication storage system providing efficient data compression and deduplication capability and suitable for data backup and long-term retention. HPE StoreOnce can be also be integrated with major backup vendors as the backup target storage.
This post is a quick introduction and demonstration of the HPE StoreOnce Catalyst Store for quick reference.
HPE StoreOnce is a deduplication storage system providing efficient data compression and deduplication capability and suitable for data backup and long-term retention. HPE StoreOnce can be integrated with major backup vendors as the backup target storage.
In Azure, there is virtual edition of HPE StoreOnce in Azure Marketplace. Deploying and initializing the HPE StoreOnce VSA is a very pleasant process with a straightforward outcome.
Since the HPE StoreOnce supports the data replication between appliances, the Azure based StoreOne VSA could be a good candidate of remote DR data copy by replicating the data from on-premise StoreOnce system.
It is noted that the VSA deployed in Azure will come with a trail license: “One time instant-on license for up to 90 days with a maximum 500TB capacity. No support provided by HPE.”
This post is to outline the deploying steps for quick reference.
Continue readingVeeam backup software family includes a solution to provide the backup capability for Azure virtual machines. As a kind of tradition of Veeam backup solutions, it provides a “Free Edition” to allow 10 VM backup for free. This post is to provide an overview about how to deploy the Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure.
The first impression of this solution is its simplicity. Not only from the backup methodology, but also the deployment and operation.
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When design the stretched VxRail vSAN cluster, there is an option to utilize Witness Traffic Separation (WTS) to separate the vSAN witness traffic from vSAN vmkernel interfaces. This post is to discuss what is the WTS and how to deploy it.
There is no doubt that one of the most common Azure operations is to deploy Windows virtual machine. In most cases, deploying an Azure Windows Server is to utilize the Windows Server deploy wizard in Marketplace, which is also the easiest way in most scenarios.
However, by utilizing the deployment Wizard, we cannot choose the Virtual disk name. The virtual disk name will be automatically populated with an Azure predefined format.
This post to introduce one of the ways to allow user to define the virtual disk name by utilizing the “Azure Templates”. The method used in this post can also be used to define other Azure element name in virtual machines.
Continue readingFor VCSA appliance, if a customer CA-signed certificate is required, there are two ways to generate the CSR and replace the certificate:
The 1st option is commonly used and described as in below VMware KB article:
https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2112277
This post is to illustrate the second way by using vSphere Client.
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