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Veeam Backup Protection Levels

Markus Kraus 14. March 2022 Veeam No Comments
Within this blog post, I will talk about the different protection levels of your Veeam backups that you can achieve with different concepts and technologies. An important role is …
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HPE Firmware Management for VMware ESXi – Smart Update Tools Install Mode

Markus Kraus 30. November 2021 PowerCLI, VMware, vSphere No Comments
As I explained in the introduction to this series, the HPE Firmware Management for VMware ESXi includes multiple components which must be coordinated with each other. This post will …
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HPE Firmware Management for VMware ESXi – Introduction

Markus Kraus 29. November 2021 VMware, vSphere No Comments
In most of the VMware vSphere Environments (and even more with vSAN) the firmware and driver management is a critical and at the same level annoying task. That’s one …
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Capacity Planning Strategies

Markus Kraus 2. August 2021 VMware No Comments
One of the biggest challenges in managing an enterprise platform (Compute, Storage, or even platforms like OpenShift) is the Capacity Planning Strategies. It’s a huge effort to find the …
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Scale-Out Application vs. NUMA Action-Affinity

Markus Kraus 5. April 2021 VMware, vSphere No Comments
Last few months I was involved in a rollout project of a large application on VMware vSphere. During the phases of the rollout, we had few tricky performance issues …
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Veeam Backup & Replication RestAPI Ansible Collection

Markus Kraus 11. November 2020 Ansible, Veeam 3 Comments
One of the highlights of the latest Veeam announcement is the Veeam Backup & Replication 11 RestAPI. Until now a RESTful API was only available for other products from …
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Service Level Objectives for vSphere Clusters

Markus Kraus 14. September 2020 VMware No Comments
Last few weeks I had a lot of discussions on how to make a VMware Private Cloud Environment accountable or measurable. In some situations, you need to design an …
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Script – Apply Rightsizing Recommendations

Markus Kraus 31. July 2020 VMware, vRealize No Comments
Rightsizing of workload is always a huge topic in virtualized enterprise environments. It starts with how to get users to order the right size of VM and then eventually …
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ESXi NTP Security Configuration

Markus Kraus 15. June 2020 Ansible, PowerCLI, Scripts, VMware No Comments
To further extend the hardening of my VMware ESXi hosts, I have been working on scripted ESXi NTP Security Configuration. I wanted to restrict access to the host’s NTP …
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VMware vSphere Site Availability Concepts

Markus Kraus 25. May 2020 VMware, vSphere No Comments
In this article, I will discuss the various VMware vSphere Site Availability Concepts and will try to work out how each concept can be applied to data centers, sites, …
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VMware Workstation API remote access

Markus Kraus 14. May 2020 Ansible, VMware 3 Comments
I was really excited by Adam’s great Ansible Module for VMware Workstation. To use this Module from my Development Environment, VMware Workstation API remote access is necessary. You can …
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ESXi LLDP Uplink Details

Markus Kraus 4. May 2020 PowerCLI, VMware, vSphere No Comments
A few years ago I have written a PowerCLI script to collect and report ESXi CDP informations. My use case of this script was the ability to verify the …
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Protect new NetApp NFS Exports with Veeam

Markus Kraus 20. April 2020 NetApp, PowerShell, Veeam No Comments
The capability to protect NFS and SMB Shares on file level was one of the most wanted features of Veeam Availability Suite v10. With prior versions, you only had …
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VMware NSX-T 3.0 Highlights

Markus Kraus 9. April 2020 NSX, VMware No Comments
Its been a while since I had the last time my hands-on VMware NSX. However, I have continued to follow with enthusiasm the great progress in the further development …
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vRealize Automation 8.1 Highlights

Markus Kraus 10. March 2020 VMware, vRealize No Comments
My journey with VMware vRealize Automation already started in the early 6.x-Days. Even then, I was absolutely thrilled by the flexibility and added value of this product. In the …
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