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Yes, you could easily take out the drive and plug it into another computer. Still a good idea to back stuff up though in case your disk fails or stuff gets corrupted. 3-2-1 is a good rule of thumb
Here is a short list that should cover you for most everyday things:
- Have backups of all your important documents and photos, use the 3-2-1 rule.
- Have a boo-boo kit in your backpack or car, with bandages, pain killers etc.
- Keep an extra change of clothes in your car.
- Emergency sewing kit in your backpack.
- Always have water with you.
- Have an emergency fund.
- Store food and water, it helps incase of blackouts, water shortages, and job loss.
- Keep your phone charged(and own a battery Bank)
- Keep your car gas tank above 50%.
There's likely more, anyone else feel free to add what they feel is important bellow.
Server 2019 is not far off from Windows 10 1809. The feature set is focused on enterprise server use, but you don't need to use any of the server stuff.
I personally don't recommend using it as a desktop OS. Most software will run fine, but you will find some programs won't run as they see the word server, and then will want you to use a more expensive enterprise grade tool instead. There also is no Store, Edge, and various other consumer features of Windows 10 but most of those can be hacked back in if needed. It still has a GUI, start menu, etc, so if you use Windows 10 you already know how to work it.
Server versions of Windows do not get feature updates like Windows 10, so it is stuck on 1809, so any new features added to Windows down the line that he may want would never be an option.
This is something I would try on your own machine, I wouldn't put it on someone else's. I personally switched my home server from Server 2016 to Win10 just to make my life easier, as I wasn't using any of the server features but I wanted various other consumer ones like the Xbox streaming.
Essentials vs Standard - In your case it makes no difference. https://www.nakivo.com/blog/windows-server-2016-essentials-vs-standard-how-they-compare/
On top of legal hold, which will only preserve things not recover them you want: https://www.nakivo.com/microsoft-office-365-backup/how-to-recover-deleted-emails-office-365-guide/#:~:text=In%20Outlook%20365%20go%20to,recovered%20to%20the%20Inbox%20folder).
You may also want to see about getting someone in to do a full recovery and mailflow check. If lawyers are getting involved them I would get them to list what they need and people that can do it. You have to capture the data in very specific ways.
Set up a new server in Hyper V. SYSPREP and create a differencing disk for setting up new VM’s. I’d never clone a server with live data on it with the intention of creating a second server from the first
https://www.nakivo.com/blog/use-hyper-v-differencing-disks-complete-guide/
It can be almost exactly as easy as doing it locally actually! If you are willing to use S3 to store your assets you can actually use programs to make S3 act like it’s a locally mounted hard drive. Insanely cool application!
https://www.nakivo.com/blog/mount-amazon-s3-as-a-drive-how-to-guide/
As always, please beware the costs. Know what you are doing when it comes to what you will and will not be billed for.
Other than S3 you could use something like FileZilla to the instance and it is very similar to a local system.
Of course! Read through this VMware blog post and it will explain all you need to know plus how to size them! https://blogs.vmware.com/performance/2017/03/virtual-machine-vcpu-and-vnuma-rightsizing-rules-of-thumb.html
The disk differences are just how the storage is provisioned. Thin provisioned is where the VM only provisions what it needs at minimal levels, so if you provisioned a 40GB hard drive and the VM only uses 5GB of space, the HDD size on the VMware side is only 5GB but can expand up to 40 if needed. Usually used to save on storage space!
Thick are full provisioned VMs, the lazy zero vs eager zero is how the disk is zeroed and presented to the VM - https://www.nakivo.com/blog/thick-and-thin-provisioning-difference/ :)
Today’s blog post is dedicated to performance issues that can affect your Hyper - V environment and in what ways you can improve your virtual machine performance >>>>
https://www.nakivo.com/blog/top-20-tips-improve-vm-performance-hyper-v/
Depends on what you mean by high performance. You don't really want to entirely leave backups to an automated application, instead you want to follow the 3-2-1 rule. Remember, TEST YOUR BACKUPS.
There should be an option in the snapshot process to “include physical memory”. If I recall, it’s not checked by default and is hidden in an arrow drop down. Here’s a link, couldn’t find on for ESXi 5.5; but hopefully it should be close enough for you. https://www.nakivo.com/blog/vmware-snapshots-vsphere-how-to/
Are you looking to perform memory forensics using the .vmem or do you need it for something else?
Is your file server a VM or running on the Hyper-V host?
<whistleblower> If it's the latter, that's against the licensing terms. </whistleblower>
If your file server is a VM and you have more than 1 shared cluster, it could be the location of the data was migrated to the other shared cluster. That would look to the file server as if the data connection was lost.
The VMs on your NAT Network can reach the internet. When using NAT Network, you can tell Virtual Box to enable a dhcp server for said NAT Network. You don't need a separate dhcp VM.
https://www.nakivo.com/blog/virtualbox-network-setting-guide/
Compared to Veeam it is cheap as fuck. Perpetual, so no fucking subscription. Check this out: https://www.nakivo.com/how-to-buy/pricing/
You can backup everything from Vmware, Hyper-V to Nutanix or direct SAN backups. I like the fact that they support the installation on linux and multiple NAS devices. One thing that was very important to me that they don´t support right no: File or share backups.
It isn't very easy to choose a perfect solution that suits all your needs. However, there are some great options out there:
- Spanning Backup. In the reviews, it is claimed to be easy-to-use but yet a bit expensive.
- Nakivo. Reliable and with reasonable pricing, still not perfect.
- Druva inSync. Some users say that it offers intuitive management, while others claim it to be outdated.
So it all depends on your specific needs and the features you're looking for.
Good luck with choosing the best solution!
https://www.nakivo.com/blog/virtualbox-network-setting-guide/
Depends on what you want to do with the VM.
A Host-Only Ethernet Adapter allows communication between the VM and the computer it's running on. For example, you can setup shared folders or run a web services on the VM and access it from the host. However it doesn't allow the VM to access anything else in your network, not even the internet.
> The 3-2-1 backup rule is an easy-to-remember acronym for a common approach to keeping your data safe in almost any failure scenario. The rule is: keep at least three (3) copies of your data, and store two (2) backup copies on different storage media, with one (1) of them located offsite. To clarify, let’s take a look at each point of this rule.
I like Nakivo, always been a free solution for esx (some limitations). But since V10 they support backups of virtual & physical machines of multiple platforms, both to local destinations & cloud based ones.
A complete guide on how to install Kubernetes on Ubuntu you can find in the next blog post >>>> https://www.nakivo.com/blog/install-kubernetes-ubuntu/
Today’s blog post explores Docker and Kubernetes, how Docker can be used with Kubernetes, and which solution to choose for deploying containers in the production environment. Read more>>> https://www.nakivo.com/blog/docker-vs-kubernetes/
I tried Veeam before it but a) it runs on Windows and, more importantly b) if you are using the free edition, you can only automate backups with a Powershell script which kinda works but it's a bit hacked together. With Nakivo you have a nice clean web GUI, runs on any Linux and you can be up and running with daily backups as soon as you deploy it.
If you search for the Nakivo NFR license it is free, but with limitations. I think the limitation is 1 esxi host, but I can't remember for sure.
There is no client needed to install on the VM's, and Nakivo itself comes as a OVA package that you just deploy and configure through the web GUI in about 10 minutes. It's slick.
Edit: Link to NFR. https://www.nakivo.com/resources/download/free-nfr-license/
https://www.nakivo.com/blog/vmware-workstation-pro-vs-player/
>VMware Workstation Pro provides the following features and VM options that are not available in VMware Player:
Guest Isolation. You can enable or disable using drag & drop and copy/paste features from a host to guest and the inverse. Disable these features in addition to disabling networking if you would like your VM to be completely isolated from the host OS. VMware Tools must be installed on a guest OS to make the guest isolation feature available.
The failover cluster we have running in my office is LACP, Dynamic.
Switch Independent is useful when you cant set LACP, but if you can, use LACP instead.
https://www.nakivo.com/blog/hyper-v-networking-best-practices/
Nakivo. They do perpetual licensing. They do have annual support costs, but they tick all the boxes and they are incredibly cheap. Been using them for years and never had any issues.
Why are you trying to use ICS with Hyper-V to begin with?
As has already been mentioned, the default vSwitch that is created on a Windows 10 system with Hyper-V installed is of the NAT-type. Do you understand what is meant by NAT-type?
From the link:
>Earlier Windows versions (before Windows 10) had no virtual switches. However, when you enable Hyper-V on Windows 10, you can use a Default Switch for seamless networking, as it provides access to the host’s network.
Can’t claim to have done this myself, but if I was going to run a Linux desktop in Hyper-V this is what I’d be trying.
https://www.nakivo.com/blog/install-ubuntu-20-04-on-hyper-v-with-enhanced-session/
Not that I'm aware of, if by "damaging" you mean destroying the computer hardware. Hyper-v is a hypervisor included in various versions of Windows by Microsoft. Other OSs (i.e. Linux, BSD, Solaris x86, etc.) don't even come with it, and work just fine without it without destroying said hardware.
Will doing so render the software on said computer unusable? Its possible, but unlikely. Said command does not delete remove Hyper-v, it just disables it. Moreover, its reversible -
You can change Hyper-V startup options when Windows boots without uninstalling Hyper-V completely. In this case, Hyper-V is installed but inactivated. Hyper-V is not booted before Windows boots if you disable Hyper-V by using the command line bcdedit tool. Bcdedit is the command line tool to manage Boot Configuration Data or BCD. BCD store is used to describe boot parameters for applications, add boot menu entries, etc. If you use BCD to disable Hyper-V, the Hyper-V feature is disabled but not uninstalled completely from Windows. As you remember, Hyper-V is the first-type hypervisor that boots before Windows boots. The idea of using this method is to disable Hyper-V in boot configuration.
Run the command prompt (CMD) as administrator and run the following command to disable Hyper-V by using bcdedit:
bcdedit /set hypervisorlaunchtype off
Note: If you need to enable Hyper-V again, run
bcdedit /set hypervisorlaunchtype on
See - https://www.nakivo.com/blog/uninstalling-or-disabling-hyper-v-in-windows-10/
The article linked even describes how to configure Windows so you can choose whether Hyper-v is enabled / disabled at boot time.
You need to amend your OP (Rule 1 - minimum information) to comply with this subreddits requirements.
That being said you can find a feature list regarding said Virtual Box Extension Pack here -
https://www.nakivo.com/blog/how-to-install-virtualbox-extension-pack/
Note - it says nothing about it enabling NVMe controllers for VMs, so I'm unclear as to why you believe that installing the Extension Pack is necessary if you want to configure a virtual NVMe controller for your VM.
It really depends on what your host OS is. If you're running Windows, virtual box is my go to free version. Lots of networking options to help isolate your host machine from your guests. (VM's running on your hypervisor (virtualization software)
There is a good guide here explaining the networking options. https://www.nakivo.com/blog/virtualbox-network-setting-guide/
You need to click on "add a vhd file later" when creating the virtual machine.
When you go into the properties to add the vhd, you can create a fixed size one from there.
The only way to protect your environment from ransomware is to have a comprehensive ransomware protection strategy. Start with integrating these aspects:
- Email protection. Configure anti-malware and anti-spam filters on your email servers.
- Router configuration. Configure firewalls on routers, block access to unused ports, and, if possible, change standard port numbers.
- Protect your network. Use network segmentation. Proper connection of subnets and routers can significantly reduce the possibility of malware infections.
- Use antivirus. As simple as it is.
- Install security patches. Install patches for OSes and other apps deployed on computers to work with the existing vulnerabilities.
- Monitor the environment. Monitoring is the only way to detect and mitigate a ransomware attack.
- Perform data backups regularly. It is one of the most relevant points because it is the only way to guarantee that your critical information will be recoverable.
You can check this article to learn more tips on how to protect against ransomware, recover in case of an attack, and why antiviruses fail to detect multiple ransomware modifications.
https://www.nakivo.com/blog/what-is-ransomware-a-full-overview/
to open ssh in the console: In the ESXi Direct Console User Interface (DCUI), go to Troubleshooting Options, navigate to Enable ESXi Shell and Enable SSH strings, and press Enter to enable each option.
in ssh you can list drivers: esxcli software vib list
to remove in ssh: esxcli software vib remove -n vibname
https://www.nakivo.com/blog/most-useful-esxcli-esxi-shell-commands-vmware-environment/
https://support.hpe.com/hpesc/public/docDisplay?docId=c03358340
Thanks for reporting your experience. Hyper-V Manager is bundled with Windows and installed on demand, as an additional Windows feature. Is this available in your packages?
You can copy your emails directly to the desktop. You can export your emails to PDF, CSV or PST files.
Here I found a step-by-step guide for you
https://www.nakivo.com/blog/saving-microsoft-365-emails-to-desktop/
VMware provides a OVA for a VM that can do just that, and restore the config, and has the other vCLI tools installed. Or take a look at https://www.nakivo.com/vmware-backup/back-up-and-restore-vmware-esxi-host-configuration-guide/ for the many possibilities.
Both VMware and VirtualBox have their pros and cons, so check which one meets your needs better. If you want to see a complete comparison, check this blog post. But briefly, these are the main differences:
Host operating systems
Virtualbox supports Windows, Linux, Solaris, macOS, FreeBSD, while VMware supports Linux, Windows + macOS (with VMware Fusion).Guest operating systems
VMware, in addition, supports Solaris and FreeBSD.User interface
Both hypervisors have Graphical Command Line Interface (CLI) and User Interface (GLI).Snapshots
Both use snapshots, but VMware uses snapshots in paid virtualization products only.Disk format
VMware offers only VMDK, while Virtualbox offers more diversity with VDI, VMDK, VHD, HDD.Virtual Network Models
VMware allows NAT, Host-only, Bridged, and Virtual network editor (for Fusion Pro and VMware workstation). While Virtualbox has more options: NAT, NAT Network, Not attached, Bridged adapter, Generic (UDP, VDE), Internal network, and Host-only adapter.3D Graphics
Virtualbox offers Direct3D 9 and OpenGL 3.0 and 128 MB of video memory. The 3D acceleration enables manually. VMware has fewer limitations, offering more flexibility with up to 10, 2GB of video memory, OpenGL 3.3, and DirectX. The 3D acceleration enables by default.Possible integrations
Virtualbox allows Microsoft's VHD, VMDK, HDD, QED, Docker, and Vagrant. At the same time, VMware requires extra conversion for additional VM types.Cost and licensing
Virtualbox is free under the General Public License. In addition, VMware offers only Workstation Player for free, while other VMware products require a paid license.
If you are using workstation, you need to do nested esxi, vsphere needs to be installed in esxi, not workstation.
I think currently the way to tell is you click on an object row and then hit "
edit server-side encryption" and if it's currently enabled then it's encrypted... wish that was more clear. Looks like the old UI had a properties sidebar popup (blue) and it would say "encrypted" in the properties.
Try using Enhanced Session Mode, which is essentially RDP through the Hyper-V console, that usually lets you resize the console window. https://www.nakivo.com/blog/install-ubuntu-20-04-on-hyper-v-with-enhanced-session/
><whistleblower> If it's the latter, that's against the licensing terms. </whistleblower>
Heh, what do you know - of course we have it that way, and it passed through our licensing guy. Gonna have a look on it.
Apart from our licensing violation, since it's not a VM, any ideas why would it behave like it behaved?
Read the previously provided link -
The default address of the NatNetwork is <code>10.0.2.0/24</code>.
The default gateway IP is 10.0.2.1 (the x.x.x.1 template is used to assign the default gateway IP). For example, if you create a new virtual network for the NAT Network mode in VirtualBox and set the 192.168.22.0/24 network address, the IP address of the gateway in this network will be 192.168.22.1. You cannot change the IP address of the gateway for the network used in the NAT Network mode and change the range of IP addresses issued by the DHCP server. Similarly, the IP address of the DHCP server is 10.0.2.3 by default (the x.x.x.3 template is used).
https://www.nakivo.com/blog/virtualbox-network-setting-guide/
The gateway for the NAT Network is created by Virtual Box automatically. In this NAT Network mode, Virtual Box essential does NAT address translation for all the VMs in the NAT Network.
> I would like to set a static address for my other servers on this network
Then set them well out side of the dhcp range, within each of the Guest OS's running in said virtualized servers. Or disable dhcp within the NAT Network, and go all static ips.
Hello!
Thank you for reading our blog! The IAM user must have S3 full access to generate the AWS access key ID and AWS secret access key. If your user account doesn't have enough AWS permissions, you cannot generate the AWS access key ID and AWS secret access key. After generating keys, you can restrict permissions for the needed AWS user.
As an alternative, you can use a regular AWS user with restricted permissions to mount an S3 bucket as a drive in your operating system and use a power user with administrative permissions to generate access keys for the regular user who needs to mount a bucket.
Hello! Thank you for reading our blog. As for your question, check the following:
- First of all, make sure that you have logged in to PowerShell (CMD) as an Administrator.
- Then, try to run a clone to mount a bucket as your regular user and administrator.
- If these methods don't help, try to add your regular user to the Administrators group to test whether a bucket is mounted and displayed in Explorer.
- Check UAC settings.
- Check the EnableLinkedConnections parameter in the Windows registry to map drives from an elevated command prompt.
Let me know if it worked for you.
Both VMware and VirtualBox have their pros and cons, so check which one meets your needs better.
- Host operating systems
Virtualbox supports Windows, Linux, Solaris, macOS, FreeBSD, while VMware supports Linux, Windows + macOS (with VMware Fusion).
- Guest operating systems
VMware, in addition, supports Solaris and FreeBSD.
- User interface
Both hypervisors have Graphical Command Line Interface (CLI) and User Interface (GLI).
- Snapshots
Both use snapshots, but VMware uses snapshots in paid virtualization products only.
- Disk format
VMware offers only VMDK, while Virtualbox offers more diversity with VDI, VMDK, VHD, HDD.
- Virtual Network Models
VMware allows NAT, Host-only, Bridged, and Virtual network editor (for Fusion Pro and VMware workstation). While Virtualbox has more options: NAT, NAT Network, Not attached, Bridged adapter, Generic (UDP, VDE), Internal network, and Host-only adapter.
- 3D Graphics
Virtualbox offers Direct3D 9 and OpenGL 3.0 and 128 MB of video memory. The 3D acceleration enables manually. VMware has fewer limitations, offering more flexibility with up to 10, 2GB of video memory, OpenGL 3.3, and DirectX. The 3D acceleration enables by default.
- Possible integrations
Virtualbox allows Microsoft's VHD, VMDK, HDD, QED, Docker, and Vagrant. At the same time, VMware requires extra conversion for additional VM types.
- Cost and licensing
Virtualbox is free under the General Public License. In addition, VMware offers only Workstation Player for free, while other VMware products require a paid license.
Of course, I can't give you the full description of both in one post, so check this comparison if needed.
No drives, no coins, unless there is a backup. If you had a drive that was wiped I'd tell you to contact some companies that do data retrieval, but they need drives to retrieve the data from.
For the future, the rule of thumb for a good backup is 3-2-1 - three copies, two copies on a different medium, at least one off-site - https://www.nakivo.com/blog/3-2-1-backup-rule-efficient-data-protection-strategy/ .
Player = Free version.
Player doesn't support premium features like snapshot..
"VMware Workstation Player doesn't support snapshots and you won't be able to find the appropriate option in the user interface of VMware Player. The only action you can do instead of taking a snapshot is suspending (pausing) the VM when it is in the running state and copying the VM files to another location." -- https://www.nakivo.com/blog/vmware-workstation-pro-vs-player/ (Literally the first result (and quick answer by Google) if you google "workstation player snapshot")
Buy Workstation Pro legally, crack it or buy a cheap serial on eBay if you need snapshot feature..
Are you able to shrink the volume in the guest?
What's the role of the server? Could you deploy another server and move any services/applications over to the new server?
This may help:
https://www.nakivo.com/blog/shrink-compact-virtual-hard-disks-hyper-v/
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It is impossible to export an email recovering to an EML or PST files now. You can view an email directly from a backup and download attached files in the web interface of NAKIVO Backup & Replication. You can recover custom emails to a custom email mailbox.
If you want to recover an email of a deleted user account, select an existing user account that you can control. To do this, when running the Object Recovery Wizard for Office 365, on the Options(4) step, select Recovery type: Recover to mailbox Mailbox: Select any existing mailbox that is available for your Office 365 subscription account.
Hello!
It is impossible to export an email recovering to an EML or PST files now. You can view an email directly from a backup and download attached files in the web interface of NAKIVO Backup & Replication. You can recover custom emails to a custom email mailbox.
If you want to recover an email of a deleted user account, select an existing user account that you can control. To do this, when running the Object Recovery Wizard for Office 365, on the Options(4) step, select Recovery type: Recover to mailbox Mailbox: Select any existing mailbox that is available for your Office 365 subscription account.
linux mint is more sweet for the transition, and it only consumes 1 gig of memory on my other machines (not in my laptop unfortunately i have issues with wifi), it is very customizable and easy to use for people who just made a transition, the installation on a VM is easy, just make a boot image and choose it as boot media in virtual box. then you will just have to follow this tutorial to be able to customize the screen size. luck!
"The 3-2-1 backup rule is an easy-to-remember acronym for a common approach to keeping your data safe in almost any failure scenario. The rule is: keep at least three (3) copies of your data, and store two (2) backup copies on different storage media, with one (1) of them located offsite. "
https://www.nakivo.com/blog/3-2-1-backup-rule-efficient-data-protection-strategy/
Google photos is one option for the offsite location as mentioned before.
The are various options for protecting and backing up your Microsoft 365 data:
- SharePoint and OneDrive Backups. The data is always stored in at least two data centers for 14 days. In case of deleting data (even from the Recycle bin), you can recover the data for 93 days. However, Recycle bin isn't a very flexible tool comparing to other recovery options.
- Exchange Online Backup. Exchange Online Archiving provides space for email archiving, including shared mailboxes. This characteristic is also known as an auto-expanding archive. However, Exchange Online Archiving can only be enabled with the premium Exchange Online Plan 1 and 2.
- Backups Using 3rd Party Tools. The complete option for Microsoft 365 data protection is third-party solutions. They allow point-in-time recovery, archiving for compliance, flexible retention policies, and much more. Microsoft's Service Agreement recommends using third-party services for backup and recovery.
If you want to know more about the best practices of MS365 backup, check this guide.
If you are choosing between Hyper-V and KVM, let's dig a bit deeper into the comparison:
- Hyper-V requires 24TB of RAM/Host, while KVM needs 12TB.
- As for the CPUs, KVM supports 240 processors, while for Hyper-V, it depends on a generation: 64 for generation 1 and 240 for the second generation.
- Both Hyper-V and KVM offer VM Live Migration, VM Replication supports, Disk I/O Throttling, Hot-plug of virtual resources. However, Hyper-V doesn't allow overcommit resources, while KVM does.
And also check some main features of each one. Hyper-V offers:
- Memory support.
- ReFS deduplication.
- Two-node clusters.
- Storage spaces direct improvements.
- Shielded virtual machine updates.
- Encrypted subnets.
KVM main features:
- Container support
- Assign any PCI device to virtual machines
- Overcommit resources
- Red Hat Satellite integration
- Low-cost virtualization solution
- Scalability
- Disaster recovery support
If you consider other hypervisors as well, check the difference between Hyper-V and VMware and VirtualBox.
Yeah I've seen this before but I still don't really know how to solve it. Read this: https://www.nakivo.com/blog/virtualbox-network-setting-guide/
I think it says you're using a virtual NIC and that might be causing your problem instead of "capturing" it fully, but I also am VERY drunk right now
Here is a long explanation on hardware versions and what they mean (warning the webpage loads a bunch of ads over the top, couldn't find anything better)
https://www.nakivo.com/blog/vmware-hardware-version-overview-upgrades-and-compatibility/
Most of the time when you get OVA or OVF files from a company they have the set hardware version, most are version 11 but occasionally you will get some that are lower. If you need to build a VM from scratch you can set the hardware version. So in theory you could leave your ESXI and vCenter as 7.0 and set the hardware version of a VM to a lower version when you build it.
It never used to be (as its just a disk somewhere else) but has increasingly been considered as a medium in itself due to cloud providers own internal redundancy, enterprise level equipment and processes. Also, it rather tidily handles both the one offsite and one of the mediums in one solution.
https://www.nakivo.com/blog/3-2-1-backup-rule-efficient-data-protection-strategy/
In addition to what the other comment that was made, if you are using "internal networking" for your VM, I would not expect said VM would able to connect to any DHCP services on your Host at all. "Internal Network" mode only allows your VM to talk to other VMs, nothing else.
If you want your VM to be able to exchange network traffic with 1) your Host, and 2) other VMs only, you need to use the "Host Only" mode.
This link contains a number network diagrams that may help you visualize this -
https://www.nakivo.com/blog/virtualbox-network-setting-guide/
Are you attempting to mount the S3 bucket in Windows simply because it doesn’t appear in Nextcloud’s synced folders?
Doing a quick Google search, mounting an S3 bucket is wildly challenging and also appears to mimic what NC is attempting to do anyway (sync). https://www.nakivo.com/blog/mount-amazon-s3-as-a-drive-how-to-guide/
Yes, it will add on the Hyper-V role during installation of the RDS components. This is a good walk through to follow if you’ve never done it before https://www.nakivo.com/blog/deploying-hyper-v-vdi-guide/
I’ve done this virtualized on VMware so nested virtualization and I can tell you I couldn’t tell it was 2 layers deep. Now that’s not best practice at all, and it was only for a Dev environment, but it does work if you just want to test something out
What advice do you want?
Is it a good system? You haven't outlined any backup regime. Everything seems to depend upon manually copying files for backup which, of course, lends itself to lapses and potentially significant data loss. That's not to say it isn't adequate. That's completely dependent upon your backup/restore goals. A good backup/restore setup must first define how redundant your backups need to be. Your restore goals depend upon how quickly you want to be able to restore.
A good setup to some datahoarders would meet best practices. For other datahoarders it's a tradeoff between best practices and costs. For me it's a tradeoff between costs.
If you follow the 3-2-1 rule you'll do alright.
https://www.nakivo.com/blog/3-2-1-backup-rule-efficient-data-protection-strategy/
If you remove the drive entirely and start the array without it, is anything there? Unraid should show the drive as 'emulated' using the parity drive, providing nothing you've done has rewritten new parity.
Too late for this now but obligatory hard lessons for the future:
Parity is not backup. Causes of data loss include hardware error, software error, user error, malware, fire, flood, theft, children, animals etc. Parity only protects against a limited number of hard drive failure issues, and arguably increases the risk of software error or user error. If you care about the data follow the 3-2-1 backup strategy. https://www.backblaze.com/blog/the-3-2-1-backup-strategy/ https://www.nakivo.com/blog/3-2-1-backup-rule-efficient-data-protection-strategy/
Who is "they"? I've looked up the manual for xfs_repair and it states that -L can result in loss of data. Don't run random commands from people on the internet without a basic understanding of what it does. https://www.systutorials.com/docs/linux/man/8-xfs_repair/
Raid is not a backup :-) if you get serious and start downloading enough that you decide to build a server, follow the 3-2-1 backup rule. You're fine while not very serious about it though.
Have you considered hand break for the movies? It might make copies that are better for your tv/server. If you haven't checked if you are transcoding, play a movie and go to your streams from the plex screen in the top right and see if it's transcoding video OR audio. It'll help make sure your pi lasts longer because it's doing less work if you make sure it isn't transcoding.
Plex is good, if there aren't any features tying you to plex, consider Jellyfin instead of Plex.
Good luck!
>I don't have Windows 10 Pro, so I don't think I can use Vms.
I don't think you need Windows 10 Pro to run VirtualBox. Here is a little guide to help you: https://www.nakivo.com/blog/use-virtualbox-quick-overview/
>Is using vms on linux free?
Yes, there are VM capabilities built into the linux kernel, it's of the reasons we are talking to each other using Ubuntu (https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/9x577m/were_reddits_infrastructure_team_ask_us_anything/e9pomux/) right now.
You can also just use virtualbox to make VMs on Linux if you want something familiar after doing it to run Linux VMs on Windows.
Here is a pretty good resource to get you started if you're looking for On-Prem VDI. It's written for 2012 R2, but should be pretty similar on later OS's.
How to Deploy Hyper-V VDI: A Step-By-Step Guide (nakivo.com)
Close. Virtual adapters are essentially the network cards installed into your virtual machine. Each VM will need at least 1 to talk on the network (of course with sole exceptions). After a quick google, this blog post seems to touch on some of the topics that you might find interesting. https://www.nakivo.com/blog/virtualbox-network-setting-guide/
cloud is only a good option for shit you don't care about loosing and having no privacy.
And this is the actual rule
> Is there a particular method of RAID that will allow for keeping a lot of capacity while still getting redundancy?
Not with two disks. You get mirroring or striping.
> Do you usually just skip RAID altogether?
Depends on the circumstances and needs. My 'primary' storage array consists of miss-matched sized drives with StableBit's DrivePool pooling them together. They're all presented as a single drive letter, but the drives themselves are just standard NTFS-formatted disks. In my XPEnology backup server, the disks in that machine are configured as RAID6.
> Or would you recommend prioritising redundancy over capacity and sacrificing a lot of the data?
Again, entirely depends on your needs. Going back to my DrivePool array -- DrivePool has the capability of working with any sized drives, and they all show up as a single disk in Windows. I can tell DrivePool to store individual files or folders on two or more drives (up to the number of disks in the array) so that, if one (or more) drives fail, that specific data is safe. No need for RAID at all.
RAID is not for keeping data safe -- it's not a backup. RAID is for high(er) availability / uptime. If you want your data safe, follow the 3-2-1 rule.
There are some tools for G Suite to Office 365 migration:
- Traditional tools that are available in the web interface of G Suite, Office 365, domain registrar, and so on.
- PowerShell
- Provided APIs and related tricks
- Third-party software solutions specialized to simplify migration from G Suite to Office 365 and reversely
But you must be a global admin in Microsoft 365 or Office 365 to complete IMAP migration steps. This blog post can be helpful for the migration process via the IMAP protocol.
It depends on what you're interested in. If you're a fan of Microsoft Office apps such as Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, which most users are familiar with, Microsoft Office 365 is your choice. On the other hand, G Suite provides analogs of Word, Excel, and PowerPoint that can be also accessed online for collaboration and editing shared files. The main difference is that some users are not familiar with the G Suite as it differs from the Office 365 interface. I think that Google Docs vs Microsoft Office is always a hot topic. You can refer to this blog for your choice: https://www.nakivo.com/blog/how-to-migrate-from-g-suite-to-office-365/. Hope it will be helpful for you.
I'm also new in the data protection field, but I know there are other backup software supporting Office 365 backups, including SharePoint and SharePoint Online. You can make a search. Here I can suggest NAKIVO. Hope it can help you.
I think this blog post may help you :) https://www.nakivo.com/blog/how-to-upgrade-from-vmware-vsphere-esxi-6-7-to-7-0/
It is not possible to export an email that is already recovered to an EML or PST file. You can view an email directly from a backup and download the attached files in the web interface of NAKIVO Backup & Replication. You can recover custom emails to a custom email mailbox. If you want to recover an email of a deleted user account, select an existing user account that you can control. In order to do this, when running the Object Recovery Wizard for Office 365, on the Options(4) step select Recovery type: Recover to a mailbox Mailbox: Select any existing mailbox that is available for your Office 365 subscription account.
You need to add the extensions package to VirtualBox first (the download is below the main VirtualBox download). Then you need to use a menu option to install them into Win10.
https://www.nakivo.com/blog/how-to-install-virtualbox-extension-pack/
I believe it sits with the VM config xml file location, which is set when the VM is set up. You can Export the VM from hyperv manager to the new location, then import it again from there.
You could export the config and import it to a fresh install. Not as comfortable as cloning a drive but you can do it remotely.
Here's a link to someone with a similar ideal and another link to a bit more of an in-depth instructional type article. Basically he wants to have a central computer that has Virtual Machines that each person in the house can access. I would assume using some sort of minimal type computer to be the bridge, what you would call a Thin Client, most likely a Raspberry Pi. The company I work for actually does this as a service we rent, but we use Windows Servers RDS feature for end-user access, with the Windows Servers being virtual machines in a larger infrastructure.
> ESXi
So this led me to this article, which was also quite useful. I can now confirm the "Warm Server" was running ESXi because I recognize that web interface. (I didn't realize that ESXi was Type 1.) Also sounds like the challenge they reported with an ungraceful shutdown had to do with vMotion, although I guess I'm still not clear on why it wouldn't reboot to a "pre-vMotion state," but that's more reading I can do.
I have more hypothetical questions but as you say every situation is so unique it's tough to answer for certain. For example, (I assume) they had ESXi running on the old server; why didn't they (or why wouldn't you) just migrate the old VMs onto the new hardware instead of creating new ones from scratch? Since it's just a Warm site with minimal day-to-day users the overall impact of starting from scratch is small, but wouldn't it still be easier?
Again, I appreciate your time so if these questions are too much I'm happy to be told so. ;)
I don't think there is a way where you can move a backup while it is running without stopping the flow of data first. Even if you mirrored or replicated the backup, you would still have to change the path in the settings, and that’s where things get messed up. I recommend asking this question on the NAKIVO forum. They have awesome support, they've already helped me with a couple Microsoft 365 backup issues I had.
Hey, not sure what your overall goal is here but if its to do with rapid VM deployment you might be able to look into a feature called "disk differencing".
This link might help - https://www.nakivo.com/blog/use-hyper-v-differencing-disks-complete-guide/
Massive datacenters use arrays of high density tape drives to store archival data on, kind of like this one but more industrial.
https://www.nakivo.com/blog/how-to-install-office-365-proplus-on-a-remote-desktop-services-server/
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I tried this, but it isn't working.
In my experience, one of the easiest ways for small businesses to start addressing security is to voluntarily abide by as many of the 12 PCI-DSS requirements as possible. It's not exhaustive, but will address some low hanging fruit that could easily harm your customers and company.
Also make sure your backups meet the 3 2 1 Backup Rule
Upvote for actually reading and answering the question.
But what's the use of knowing he deleted that important file? File's still gone.
OP is probably better served with a reliable backup strategy.
Yeah. Thanks for great news, as I see, this NAKIVO's milestone brings not only support for VMware vSphere 7 but as well backup to Wasabi Hot Cloud Storage, Linux-based workstation backups.
I recommend doing restores with rancher using NAKIVO Backup & Replication v10, now with support for VMware vSphere 7, backup to Wasabi Hot Cloud Storage, Linux-based workstation backups.
VMware vSphere 7 is really great software, I use in pair with NAKIVO Backup & Replication v10 with support for VMware vSphere 7, backup to Wasabi Hot Cloud Storage, Linux-based workstation backups.
I can recommend using NAKIVO Backup & Replication v10 software. Now with support for VMware vSphere 7, backup to Wasabi Hot Cloud Storage, Linux-based workstation backups, and more.
I was a Veeam NFR user for several years but after the changes late last year moved to Nakivo which performs similarly with a NFR license, or a fraction of the price if you need full license. I like it also comes as a simple to deploy .OVA and doesn’t require a Windows license although is an option if you want to go that way. Learn the details.
We’re excited to announce that NAKIVO Backup & Replication v10 is out! This milestone brings support for VMware vSphere 7, backup to Wasabi Hot Cloud Storage, Linux-based workstation backups, and more!
Maybe here you can find your answer if the information on that site is not outdated and fits you. As well this post can help you.
I use NAKIVO and have no issues using it with VMware, ESXi, Microsoft 365 backup and Hyper-V.
As for me, NAKIVO has easier configuration, more clear user interface. and is more simple for implementation.
The Microsoft Office 365 backup feature is licensed per user and a minimum of 10 licenses per order are allotted at $0.75 per month for a single user in a 3-year subscription.
> It seems Apple wants to phase that out
I've used older versions of the server app with no problem. There is no centralized management, so even if they phase it out, your system is unaffected.
> but a Mac VM requires Mac hardware
Not really! Links to ESXi, Proxmox, and QEMU: https://www.nakivo.com/blog/run-mac-os-on-vmware-esxi/ https://www.nicksherlock.com/2019/10/installing-macos-catalina-10-15-on-proxmox-6/ https://computingforgeeks.com/how-to-run-macos-on-kvm-qemu/
Basic Steps I can recommend: pause replication and rename the directory or directories where any VMDKs are replicating to. Then stop your replication and resize the source disk and the replica disk. After that rename the directory or directories back to their original names. Now reconfigure replication exactly as it was before. As well I can recommend using NAKIVO for your VMware backup & replication.
FYI - just closing the loop on this. Our issue didn't end up being due to LSI_SAS controller drivers in the OS (like the VMware KB article references). Our issue was due to data replication software that we use which replicates VMware storage traffic to our DR site by way of an I/O splitter plug-in installed on the VMware Hosts. The plug-in had stopped communicating correctly with vCenter, so some I/O requests were failing intermittently. This ultimately caused some disk corruption on one machine, but after reconnecting our Replication software to vCenter, normal operation resumed.
The issue can be not due to LSI_SAS drivers, UCS firmware, VMware issues, back-end storage saturation or anything else - the issue can be due to the data splitter software that you use to replicate data to our DR site. I can recommend using NAKIVO Backup & Replication for your VMware backup.
Your solution is quite ok, but I think that Veeam is not the best software for your VMware backups. NAKIVO Backup & Replication allows you to save up to 4,000 recovery points per VM, rotating them using the GFS retention policy. This provides for longer data retention periods and smarter storage space consumption.
Only one vSphere Replication appliance is deployed on each vCenter Server. You can deploy additional vSphere Replication Servers. You can also replicate a virtual machine between datastores at the same vCenter Server. In that topology one vCenter Server manages hosts at the source and at the target. For your VMware backup & replication goals, the best option is NAKIVO Backup & Replication as it can improve VMware backup performance, reliability, and recovery time while saving time as well as money.
In your case, I recommend using NAKIVO software for VMware backup. I like it as it saves my money and storage space with global deduplication and swap exclusion.
I tested Veeam, but I ultimately chose Nakivo for VMware backups because of the difference in cost. But the price is not the only argument. The most valuable is a faster and easier setup. It is simple and powerful.