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What is VMware ESXi and How Does It Work? VMware ESXi is part of VMware’s virtualization technologies package and is one of the most often used hypervisors for data centers and cloud systems. Enterprises that need to combine servers as virtual environments often choose ESXi because of its excellent performance, scalability, and efficiency. Understanding the…
What is Proxmox and How Does It Work? The powerful open-source virtualization tool Proxmox lets users effectively construct and control virtual machines (VMs) and containers. Built on the strong foundations of KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) for complete virtualization and LXC (Linux Containers) for lightweight containerization, Proxmox offers an integrated solution that fits many virtualization requirements….
One of the most important resources for a modern business is information. It is the proverbial lifeblood of any business environment, and losing even a part of this resource is sure to bring significant issues in both the short and long term. However, the challenges each industry is facing in this regard tend to differ…
A modern IT infrastructure is very difficult to imagine without some sort of virtualization environment in place. Kernel-based Virtual Machine, or KVM, is a good example of such an environment – a versatile virtualization solution that is extremely popular in many business environments of all sizes. The combination of flexibility, performance, and convenient integration with…
Business continuity is an important element of any organization’s normal functioning. Having a detailed plan goes a long way toward making recovery processes after cyber attacks and natural disasters much more streamlined and convenient, especially in larger organizations. However, the sheer number of potential situations might make it difficult to predict and imagine any possible…
More and more organizations rely on cloud infrastructure for many of their daily tasks, putting a lot of pressure on these systems from the continuity standpoint. The importance of regular backups with substantial security levels is difficult to overestimate, especially in enterprise-grade environments with complex platforms. Such combinations of use cases tend to demand the…
Bare metal backup and recovery is typically one of the most critical elements of an enterprise’s backup and recovery strategy (often referred to as “disaster recovery strategy” or “DR strategy”). There are a lot of different solutions available, each with its own individual advantages. These DR strategies are a modern necessity in most business fields,…
What is BPipe? Bacula Enterprise can offer advanced integration capabilities for complex and specialized data sets using its “BPipe” feature. The feature in question works as a pipeline interface of sorts, using custom scripts or command line interface sequences to create seamless backup and restoration data flows. This approach makes it possible for Bacula to…
The definition of oVirt oVirt is a virtualization management platform with an open-source code, built as an extension of a popular hypervisor KVM. Despite the fact that it is not particularly well-known in IT circles, it is actually used in many companies and businesses to manage various virtualized environments (primarily in data centers). Live migration,…
Introduction The ability to process massive amounts of data with great speed has earned HPC a place in a diverse range of industries, such as finance, healthcare, defense, meteorology, and many others. It can be an essential tool for a multitude of processes that revolve around discovery and innovation. Some examples would be 3D simulation,…
Introduction Data centers have become one of the most fundamental parts of many businesses today. The primary purpose of any data center is to manage, store, or process information in an efficient way, usually to a wide range of diverse users and sometimes shared by different organizations. There are different forms that data center services…
What is Ceph? Ceph is a software-defined storage platform distributed free and open-source. It provides file, block, and object storage using its distributed cluster foundation as the infrastructure. Ceph does not have to rely on a third-party file system due to its own storage backend called “BlueStore” being capable of managing both SSDs and HDDs…
