Customer Problem The client was facing frequent downtime and heavy resource usages on his website hosted in Amazon AWS instance. So he needs to ensure High Availability ( HA ) for his website. The client's requirement was to setup a loadbalancer to ensure high avaliablity and also he needed caching for faster content [...]
Brief Description GDPR is the General Data Protection Regulation that was agreed upon by the European Parliament and European Commission in late 2016 to be affected in May 2018. This GDPR will override all other data protection laws and provide a single unified regulation. The policy affects 28 European Union member countries. VMware [...]
Veeam Backup and Replication is a tool used as a backup and availability solution for VMware, Hyper-V and physical servers with Windows or Linux as the guest OS. It is a flexible and reliable backup and recovery solution for virtualised data and application level like Active Directory and SQL server. Veeam is used as [...]
PowerDNS is a free and open source DNS server with great features. The GUI is very handy and easy to manage. It has commands to manipulate the DNS records and zones. It supports all Linux platforms. Let's see how to install PowerDNS authoritative server with DNSSEC. You need a fresh Linux server. Recommended configuration - [...]
IPv6 is a most recent version of internet protocol. It was indeed to replace the commonly used internet protocol IPv4. In the modern internet world, most of the people are switching their network to IPV6 because of the advantages it provides: More Efficient Routing More Efficient Packet Processing Security Simplified Network Configuration IPv6 has [...]
Server virtualisation has become a norm in many organisations whether small or big enterprise. Virtual machines running in today’s infrastructure are revenue generating, tier 1 where most critical applications cannot afford to go down or degraded. In this article, we will discuss how to install SolarWinds Virtualization Manager 8.2, configuration and how to perform VMware monitoring [...]
Backup and recovery of a virtual machine can be a daunting task. Veeam Backup and replication provides an efficient way to backup, restore and replicate data across multiple storage locations. Veeam Backup and replication has moved from just a backup tool to an availability tool. It enables backup of virtual, cloud and physical server backups [...]
Overview VMware Site Recovery uses VMware Site Recovery Manager and vSphere Replication. Enabling Site recovery add-on triggers automatic installation and configuration in VMware Cloud on AWS. To allow this at a customer site: VMware Site Recovery Manager installed on a Microsoft Windows server vSphere Replication deployed as an appliance both at recovery and [...]
"Will automation replace today’s system administrators? Well, it is the skilful use of these tools that will foster their credibility." Introduction Virtualization is meant to ease the life of a system administrator, physical and hardware infrastructure that created a lot of bottlenecks have been eliminated over the years. However, [...]
VMware Cloud on AWS is a unified Software Define Data Centre (SDDC) platform that integrates vSAN, VMware vSphere, and NSX virtualization technologies. It is optimized to run on a very flexible, dedicated, bare-metal Amazon Web Services infrastructure and offers a variety of AWS services including functionalities, elasticity, and security. The vSphere allows administrators to operate [...]
