Nakivo v10.5 brings VMware monitoring and anti-ransomware resilience
Posted on December 9, 2021
The landscape of VM backup solutions vendors has significantly evolved over the last few years with the emergence of cloud computing and modern apps driving innovation. Nakivo Backup & Replication is keeping up this pace with fast release cycle to bring more value to the product and offer solutions to...
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Automatically install CNI in new kubernetes cluster with Cluster API
Posted on December 7, 2021
In a previous blog we discovered Cluster API and how it allows you to declaratively deploy Kubernetes clusters to your favourite cloud provider, ours being vSphere obviously! If you have no idea what Cluster API and CAPV are, I suggest you put this reading on pause and start with...
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What is the Retreat Mode for vSphere clusters
Posted on November 26, 2021
In vSphere, the DRS cluster duty have historically been tied to vCenter server, making it unavaiable if it went to go offline. In order to rectify that, vSphere 7u1 introduced vSphere Cluster Service VMs, a cluster of small virtual appliance holding the clustering duties to take them out of vCenter’s...
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Understanding Kubernetes Cluster API Provider vSphere (CAPV)
Posted on November 21, 2021
I recently got into Kubernetes Cluster API Provider vSphere (CAPV) to understand what it is, what it does and where it fits in the Kubernetes and VMware ecosystem. The answer is a lot simpler than it seems and it is already used by several companies such as VMware (Tanzu Kubernetes...
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How NAKIVO Backup & Replication can help you with Ransomware
Posted on November 15, 2021
Ransomware have been part of the IT landscape for a long time now, however, it has become more prominent in the last two years with an ever increasing number of attacks that get more and more clever over the iterations. In this blog we will see how Nakivo Backup...
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Thoughts on the vExpert program
Posted on November 12, 2021
A couple days ago a received a call for content communication from the one and only Corey Romero around the vExpert program. While I try to keep my thoughts away from my blog to focus on technical content, I also acknowledge everything the vExpert program brought...
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How to create an NFS persistent volume (PV) on Synolgy NAS in Kubernetes
Posted on October 27, 2021
I have been learning about Kubernetes over the past couple of months and I thought I would move some of home multimedia workloads to kubernetes as a use case. It is necessary to go through the basics and courses but I find that I learn much faster and better with...
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Octant - VMware open-source UI dashboard for Kubernetes
Posted on October 25, 2021
Octant is an open source project to provide a powerful dashboard for Kubernetes. It was originally developped by Heptio and fell under the Tanzu umbrella when VMware acquired the company back in late 2018. If you use Kubernetes, be it for learner or in production you...
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Backup and restore VMs with Nakivo
Posted on October 19, 2021
Virtual machines protection and backup solutions are more important nowadays with the plethora of ransomware out there in the wild. Nakivo Backup and Replication is an enterprise grade software solution that will protect your workloads against data loss, site failure and help with ransomware recovery. In this blog we...
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ANSI color handling characters with Tanzu CLI on Windows
Posted on October 14, 2021
If you installed the Tanzu CLI (to try VMware Tanzu Community Edition or TCE for instance), you probably encountered odd characters such as ←[1m or ←[0m in your powershell or cmd sessions when using it. I thought I’d write a quick blog on that since I’m pretty sure I’ll need...
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