Office 365 backup – Do you need it?
Protecting Office 365 A common misconception when moving resources such as Exchange e-mail or SharePoint to Office 365 is that the Microsoft will take care of the data backups for you. Unfortunately, this is...
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Replace SSL certificates on VMware vRealize Log Insight (vRLI) and vRealize Operations (vROps)
Background After the initial install of a couple of the vRealize products, Log Insight, and Operations, I wanted to remove the annoying warning about the default self-signed certificates not being trusted. I am running a...
Upgrading Nutanix CE from 5.5 to 5.6
Background. Some of you may have read my guide on deploying Nutanix CE 5.5 onto bare metal Oracle Ravello. Well as tends to happen, software is updated and now is the time to look to...
Veeam for Nutanix AHV – Lets take a quick peek
Background. Veaam announced their upcoming Nutanix Acropolis Hyper-Visor support a few months ago and since then there have been various internal betas available for testing, one of which I demoed in this online presentation. The...
Upgrading to vSAN 6.7 – That was easy!
Background. I recently moved my vSAN 6.6 cluster from VCSA 6.5 to VCSA 6.7 which I detailed in this blog post. The next item on the list was to upgrade to the latest version...
Moving vSAN 6.6 cluster from vCenter 6.5 to vCenter 6.7
Background. A little bit of background for you folks, I wrote a blog post a little while ago on how to deploy a 6.5 VCSA appliance onto Oracle Ravello bare metal. On the back...
Connecting Oracle Ravello applications with VeeamPN and Elastic IP’s
Background. If you are not familiar with the concept of an application in Ravello, it is a grouping of virtual machines that run in a defined region (notice I avoided saying container there, could become...
Quick and Dirty – How to add a static route to Nutanix CVM
Background My use case is that I have two Nutanix CE clusters connected with a VPN link. I have no ability to modify the routes on a router, so the next best thing is...
Quick and Dirty – Settings to make ESXi 6.7 work on Oracle Ravello
Background This is something a couple of us had been working on in the background during the vSphere 6.7 Beta testing to try and make it run on Oracle Ravellos cloud, which has a free...
Get out of any cloud for free with Veeam Agent free edition
Really? Ok, so maybe I lured you here with some marketing spin whilst omitting a few key details. However, given the right conditions, this is absolutely true. I was working on a project recently...
