0210, 2020

SME backup products offer diverse routes to the cloud

T-Blog Editor/ October 2, 2020/ Backup and Archival Tools, Backup and recovery software, Data storage backup tools, Expert Advise and Opinion, How-Tos and Other Useful Tips and Tricks, IT Managed Services, IT Management, Timeless Tips

Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesWe take the temperature on cloud-era SME-focused backup products that come as “traditional” software, replication-centric protection environments and hardware appliances. By Antony Adshead Computer Weekly recently surveyed the main backup software providers and those that supply a new breed of backup appliances, all built for the cloud era as a target. Here we look at the rest – all small and medium-sized enterprise

0210, 2020

Do you need to make Exchange Online backups?

T-Blog Editor/ October 2, 2020/ Exchange Online administration and implementation, Expert Advise and Opinion, How-Tos and Other Useful Tips and Tricks, Messaging and collaboration, Timeless Tips

Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesMicrosoft has several protective measures in place to let customers restore deleted mail in Office 365, but backup vendors will say it’s not enough to cover every scenario. By Nathan O’Bryan, Planet Technologies Moving from on-premises Exchange into Exchange Online is a big change for multiple reasons. These are different systems that require different administration strategies. For administrators, one of the

2709, 2020

Use the command line for ESXi host backup and restoration

T-Blog Editor/ September 27, 2020/ Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, How-Tos and Other Useful Tips and Tricks, Industry News and Expert Advice, Timeless Tips, VMware ESX and ESXi administration

Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesBacking up and properly restoring VMs are essential tasks for workload protection. Use a command-line interface, such as vSphere CLI or PowerCLI, to back up and restore the ESXi host. By Stephen J. Bigelow VMware administrators can back up an ESXi host using one of two command-line scripting interfaces: vSphere CLI and PowerCLI. After creating the ESXi host backup, those

2709, 2020

How to change an ESXi password for vCenter

T-Blog Editor/ September 27, 2020/ Datacenter Infrastructure News, Engage the experts, Expert Advise and Opinion, How-Tos and Other Useful Tips and Tricks, Industry News and Expert Advice, Tekmart Enterprise Hardware Tips, Timeless Tips, VMware ESX and ESXi administration, VMware products

Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesA forgotten ESXi root password can stop you in your tracks. Avoid dodgy quick fixes and learn the proper way to recover a root password for vCenter-connected and stand-alone hosts. By Stuart Burns Everyone forgets a password once in a while. If you forget your ESXi root password, you can find many quick fixes online, but many of these options

2709, 2020

How to troubleshoot unexpected ESXi host reboots using crash logs

T-Blog Editor/ September 27, 2020/ Datacenter Infrastructure News, Engage the experts, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice, Timeless Tips, VMware ESX and ESXi administration, VMware products

Reading Time-approximately: 2 minutesWhen your ESXi host abruptly reboots, you can use logs to track the potential causes, whether they are planned, environmental or hardware-related. By Vladan Seget Sometimes an ESXi host reboots unexpectedly, often during a power outage if the uninterrupted power supply doesn’t last, but sometimes as a result of a core dump or faulty hardware. This can cause your ESXi

2009, 2020

Homeworking – the new norm – is there any other option…

T-Blog Editor/ September 20, 2020/ ‘New Normal’ courtesy of Covid-19, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, Remote Working, Timeless Tips, Trends: Datacenter Hardware and Solutions

Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesSteve Broadhead Broadband Testing The Internet-connected world has never experienced ramp-up in quite such a fashion before and it showed. Even where an IT solution – maybe an application, or a security authentication mechanism – has been designed for mass, global usage, a sudden ramp-up in users can cause outages, either local or total. One high-profile casualty early during the

2009, 2020

Managing data centres: People and hardware don’t mix

T-Blog Editor/ September 20, 2020/ Best practices for data center operations, Data Center Hardware, IT infrastructure management and planning, Timeless Tips

Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesTurning a data centre into a lights-out, hands-off environment saves money and removes the possibility of human error. Find out how to properly separate humans and hardware. By Clive Longbottom As the history of the data centre has unfolded, we have seen the dynamics of how these changes have worked. In the first place, the mainframe-centric data centre was a