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Benoit Voirin
November 28, 2019

Cyber Security – Where to Start – Part 2

If the previous part, you read about general boundaries of cybersecurity and why it’s mandatory to uphold. Continuing the topic, the initial steps to ensuring your business is cyber-secure, you need to create a solid foundation. Baseline OS security tools have to be configured and active 24/7, and much success of cybersecurity depends on educating your staff.

Vladan Seget
November 26, 2019

What Is New in vRealize Operations Manager 8.0?

Cohesiveness is something hyperconvergence vendors have been really going for this year. Recently, VMware has introduced its vRealize Operations Managers 8.0, an update of its “friendly admin” type of product. The new version has additions to workload planning, cost comparison, HCI nodes removal, scalability, on-prem/cloud health monitoring, and more.

Kevin Soltow
November 21, 2019

VMware ESXi disk provision. How does it work, what is the difference, and which one is better for me?

As the name of this article is hinting, I’m going to discuss the answers to the said questions. My beginner colleagues are often wondering what virtual disk is preferable to choose. Therefore, although I was talking about this topic a while ago here and there, it’s time to get to the point.

Romain Serre
November 21, 2019

Restore a VM to Azure from Veeam

Veeam enables to restore a VM to Azure from the latest recovery point. The main goal of this feature is disaster recovery. In case of failure, you can restart VMs in Azure. This feature can also be used to migrate the workload from On-Prem to Microsoft Azure. You can also restore a VM in Amazon EC2. In this topic, we’ll see how to restore a VM from Veeam to Microsoft Azure.

Alex Samoylenko
November 19, 2019

VMware Project Pacific: VMs and containerized applications – best of both worlds

Security issues, unfortunately, remain a priority even today, because, obviously, there is no such thing as too much protection. In the case of the custom domains on your apps, the same rules apply. Luckily, there is a new security feature for Azure App Service released. App Service Managed Certificates will help you to secure your domains on Windows and Linux apps!

Florent Appointaire
November 14, 2019

Protect Your Azure WebApp With a Free Certificate

During Microsoft Ignite 2019, Microsoft, using the Public Preview mode, released the capability to protect your Azure Web App (your website) with a public trusted certificate.

Florent Appointaire
November 12, 2019

Start with Azure Arc (Preview)

Azure Arc has been announced during Ignite 2019. This new service will help you to manage multi-cloud, your On-Premises environment, and your edge, like Azure Stack. You’ll connect your servers (physical or virtual) directly in the Azure console, to manage them from only one console. You’ll be able to apply RBAC, tags, etc.

Dmitriy Dolgiy
November 11, 2019

Combining Hyper-V and DC role on the same server: Why is this a bad idea

In our daily work, we do often face a choice between low cost or high reliability. Today, I want to establish whether the game is worth the candle when you want to cut your expenses on important things. The premise is that combining Hyper-V and DC roles on the same bare-metal server is a bad idea. To begin with, all the suggestions and statements in this material are derived from the personal experience, which means they were tried and tested on practice not once and not even twice. Getting that much into detail is not as significant as delivering you the big picture, so I’m going to concentrate on the latter.

Florent Appointaire
November 7, 2019

[Azure] SELinux error at boot for Linux

Sometimes, tinkering with configurations and commands can go awry. For example, when you’ve made some modifications to SELinux in a virtual machine (VM) in Azure. Suddenly, “Failed to load SELinux policy, freezing.” pops up. But don’t worry, we’ve got the cure.

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Cyber Security – Where to Start – Part 2

What Is New in vRealize Operations Manager 8.0?

VMware ESXi disk provision. How does it work, what is the difference, and which one is better for me?

Restore a VM to Azure from Veeam

VMware Project Pacific: VMs and containerized applications – best of both worlds

Protect Your Azure WebApp With a Free Certificate

Start with Azure Arc (Preview)

Combining Hyper-V and DC role on the same server: Why is this a bad idea

[Azure] SELinux error at boot for Linux