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Using IT monitoring in an organization’s infrastructure can improve its reliability and help prevent serious issues, failures, and downtimes. There are different approaches to implementing IT monitoring, by either using dedicated tools or native functionality. With either approach, you can view the monitoring data when needed or configure automatic alerts and reports to be notified of important events. This blog post explains how to enhance the IT monitoring strategy by using alarms and reports. The Importance of IT Monitoring and…

Encryption is widely used for security purposes because it prevents unauthorized third parties from accessing and disseminating private data. Backups are no exception and are often a target of data breaches. As part of a data protection strategy, you can implement encryption as an additional layer of security for your backups. In this blog post, we cover how backup encryption can help you protect data in case of cyberattacks and improve the overall level of data protection for a more…

Data backup is critical to data loss prevention and swift recovery. A part of a secure and resilient data protection strategy is backup encryption to prevent breaches and access to data by unauthorized persons. This blog post covers encryption types based on where data is encrypted and explains how a specific approach can be used for an effective backup encryption strategy. Types of Backup Encryption Encryption can be classified into different categories based on the encryption algorithm, key length, and…

Nutanix is a hyper-converged virtualization platform for running virtual machines. It can be used as an additional infrastructure or an alternative to VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V. For more information, you can read this VMware vs Nutanix comparison. You can migrate VMware virtual machines (VMs) from ESXi hosts and clusters to a Nutanix cluster. Read this VMware to Nutanix migration guide to learn how to configure the migration properly. Planning VMware to Nutanix Migration Nutanix provides Nutanix Move, a special…

The main function of a hypervisor is to emulate the devices used by virtual machines at the software level. Devices, such as virtual controllers, disks, DVD-ROMs, video cards, network cards, input devices, etc., are created in a virtual machine. But what if you want to connect a printer, scanner, USB flash drive, USB hard drive, USB smart card reader, security dongles, USB license keys, etc.? For external physical devices with a USB interface, you can connect them to a virtual…

ESXi is usually provided with the default configuration that includes a set of standard drivers and software tools for a specific version. This set of tools and drivers differs from one ESXi version to another. When running ESXi hosts, you may need to install additional drivers for the installed hardware, install software, or update software components or drivers. In this case, installing VIB files on ESXi is what you need. This blog post covers VMware VIB files and explains how…

Snapshots are usually used to create image-based VM backups. Storage snapshots are an alternative to the usual VM snapshots used, and they have certain advantages in terms of backup performance and impact on production environments. In this blog post, we explain VMware virtual machine backup from HPE snapshots to achieve high efficiency in environments with heavily loaded storage, including the working principle and configuration basics. What Are HPE Storage Snapshots? HPE storage snapshots are point-in-time image-level views of data that…

When it comes to recovery from backups, one of the core functionalities needed is recovering a file or files that may have been accidentally or intentionally deleted, corrupted by a system failure, or a possible ransomware infection. When it comes to file recovery, we want to be able to quickly and easily recover from a backup and have the flexibility to choose the restore points we need. This blog post explains how to recover particular files directly from a backup…

VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V are both hardware virtualization platforms, but on some occasions, you might need to convert a Hyper-V virtual machine (VM) for use with VMware. VMware provides several useful unique features and generally offers better support for VMs with Linux-based guest operating systems (OS). The best method to convert Hyper-V to VMware VM is using VMware vCenter Converter Standalone, which is a special free utility designed for V2V (virtual to virtual) conversion and P2V (physical to virtual)…