Broadcom’s 2023 acquisition of VMware for US$69bn led to disruptive changes in the virtualisation provider’s pricing. Key here is a move from perpetual licences to a subscription model. This has left ...

Your virtual machines are at the heart of all that your agency does, hosting practically any workload from mission-critical backup applications to dev/test environments. In VMware Backup For Dummies, ...

I recently bought a new external SSD to use for Time Machine backups. Most important to me is to have a backup of my Parallels VM, since I do most of the work for my day job in Windows, and I’d be out ...

Backup software vendor Nakivo has added Microsoft 365 cloud-to-cloud backup, support for backups of Proxmox virtualisation environments, and cloud as a target for NAS backups in the latest version – ...

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Technically, backing up virtual servers running on VMware ESX and Infrastructure server should be simple, given that they’re just disk images, not actual disks. In practice, however, it’s not quite so ...

I have written two articles on the TerraMaster F2-212 2-bay NAS (TNAS) device that can be used for personal cloud storage. I looked at its specifications in the first article and explored possible use ...

Yeah, this. If you're hell-bent on attempting to clean up the disk via a VM, it'd be far easier to have a VM created with your cleanup tools already in place. * Take a backup image of the drive you'd ...

Simply put, a virtual machine snapshot is a state that has been saved. The virtualization program stores the VM’s current state along with all of its data when you take a snapshot. This is very ...