Author: Manfred Hofer

HPE Gen10 Server SD Card issues

Background It started some month ago at one of my customers. The customer patched all of their ESXi host during the maintenance window from 6.5 U3 to 6.7 U3 through an highly automated Powershell...

Backup Interoperability Matrix Major Update 2020-10

Veritas BackupExec 21.1 Veritas NetBackup 8.3 IBM Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 8.1.10 Micro Focus Data Protector 2020.08 (10.80) EMC Avamar 19.3 EMC Networker 19.3 CommVault Simpana 11.20 Hitachi Data Protection Suite 11.20 Veeam...

Sophos UTM 9.7 – SMTP proxy isn’t working

I’m working with Astaro/Sophos UTMs since the beginning of my professional IT career and I’m also running a hardware Sophos UTM 9.7 appliance in my homelab. 4 month ago I bought a used SG135...

vExpert award and how it advanced my career

In the beginning I started with virtualization back in 2007 when Virtual Infrastructure 3.5 was released. During that time I also came across bloggers like Duncan Epping and Frank Denneman. I read everything they...