Virtualization, in computing, refers to the act of creating a virtual (rather than actual) version of something, including but not limited to a virtual computer hardware platform, operating system (OS), storage device, or computer network resources.
The term “virtualization” traces its roots to 1960s mainframes, during which it was a method of logically dividing the mainframes’ resources for different applications. Since then, the meaning of the term has evolved to the aforementioned
RAID with any filesystem / Storage array or with JBOD it comes with three main benefits. Performance Capacity Integrity Performance is how fast you can access the data / write the data into the filesystem and it is measured with…
In this post, we will see how to install ZFS on Ubuntu and present a ZVOL through iSCSI protocol to a Windows Machine for SQL Database First I created a Linux Ubuntu x64 Virtual Machine and installed the Ubuntu 18.04…
If you’re looking into data protection solutions you’re probably have heard the phrase “3-2-1 backup”. You’ll hear it from most IT consultants, professionals as well as many backup vendors and admins. Every admin should have backups. This 3-2-1 principle works…
Cloud Server/network outages are wrecking balls, and it can happen with a dominant market player like the Amazon Web Services (AWS), The latest is an extensive outage brought on by a human error at an AWS data center in Virginia.…
With vSphere 6.7 web services SOAP API includes the creation date of a Virtual Machine and will be persisted with the life-cycle of the VM itself. You can get it from Virtual Machine -> Config -> createDate. Earlier to 6.7,…
I recently had a demand to deploy an OVF (Open Virtualization Format is an open-source standard for packaging and distributing software applications for virtual machines) which is located on Datastore of ESXi Server. When you try to deploy from vSphere web…
Recently, An Indiana hospital paid a ransom of $55,000 to get rid of ransomware that had infected its systems and was hindering operations. when attackers breached the network of Hancock Health, a regional hospital in the city of Greenfield, Indiana.…
I have been working on a Cloud data protection application which would be running on AWS Cloud EC2 instance, for some information processing I need to get the instance id of my Amazon AWS EC2 instance which my software is…
Today’s developers and organizations are migrating large, monolithic legacy applications to microservice-based architectures to improve scalability and developer velocity. However, these benefits come at a cost, namely integration complexity. Additionally, developers still often interact directly with the infrastructure, whether it…
