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As cyber threats grow more complex, companies increasingly look for strong methods to protect their valuable information. Air gap backup has become an effective approach to improve data security and shield against various risks. This technique creates a separation between main data storage and backup systems, either physically or logically, which greatly reduces the chances of unauthorized access or data corruption.

The critical CVE-2024-40711 vulnerability in Veeam Backup & Replication (VBR) is drawing attention from security researchers and ransomware groups alike. Discovered by Florian Hauser from Code White, this flaw allows attackers to take full control of enterprise systems, posing a significant threat to the integrity of data backup infrastructures. With ransomware groups historically targeting Veeam vulnerabilities, CVE-2024-40711 could soon become a valuable tool for cybercriminals.

Flannel shirts, acid-washed jeans, Polaroid cameras, and vinyl records—these items which were once out of style are now emerging as popular must-haves among the younger generation. In the realm of IT, data backup has always been a necessity. Initially, it represented a compelling concept—storing data in an alternate location to ensure redundancy and failover capabilities in preparation for natural disasters.

VM migration from VMware to Proxmox can be necessary whether an organization is diversifying its infrastructure or completely moving its production workloads to a new platform. There are two main methods to migrate virtual machines from VMware ESXi hosts to Proxmox VE hosts: manually and with special tools. This blog post provides a detailed step-by-step tutorial for the successful migration of virtual machines to Proxmox VE using the 2 methods.

Snapshots are usually used to create image-based VM backups. Storage snapshots are an alternative to the usual VM snapshots used, and they have certain advantages in terms of backup performance and impact on production environments. In this blog post, we explain VMware virtual machine backup from HPE snapshots to achieve high efficiency in environments with heavily loaded storage, including the working principle and configuration basics.

ESXi is usually provided with the default configuration that includes a set of standard drivers and software tools for a specific version. This set of tools and drivers differs from one ESXi version to another. When running ESXi hosts, you may need to install additional drivers for the installed hardware, install software, or update software components or drivers. In this case, installing VIB files on ESXi is what you need.

The main function of a hypervisor is to emulate the devices used by virtual machines at the software level. Devices, such as virtual controllers, disks, DVD-ROMs, video cards, network cards, input devices, etc., are created in a virtual machine. But what if you want to connect a printer, scanner, USB flash drive, USB hard drive, USB smart card reader, security dongles, USB license keys, etc.?