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I’ve was courios to learn more about VMware Cloud on AWS and I read a new book from Packt, released on Feb 2024, with the title: VMware Cloud on AWS Blueprint: Design, automate, and migrate VMware workloads on AWS global infrastructure. The book is also available on Amazan at this link.

It explores some use cases and best practices to seamlessly migrate and scale legacy enterprise-grade applications running on on-premises vSphere environments to VMware Cloud SDDCs running on AWS infrastructure.

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VMware vSphere has a guest customization feature to change some guest OS setting for VMs that are cloned of deployed from template. For example to change the computer name, network settings, or timezone settings.

Customizing guest operating systems helps prevent conflicts that occur if virtual machines with identical settings are deployed, for example conflicts due to duplicate computer names.

For Linux based VM there are two diffent type of guest OS customization engines:

  • Perl based customization engine (the initial engine)
  • cloud-init based customization engine (introduced in vSphere 7.0.3 and in the vSphere Client GUI in vSphere 8)

But which one is used and which could be preferred?

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NAKIVO has just released a new solution to back up and recover Proxmox VM data.

Proxmox Backup Solution by NAKIVO that is already available to download. 

https://www.nakivo.com/proxmox-backup/

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Cloud-init is a powerful configuration tools, but his implementation is not always the best. And on some version of Ubuntu Server it’s making the boot slower and it’s annoning with some console messaging, also after the boot phase.

There are two different approach to disable cloud-init.

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Software for Open Networking in the Cloud (SONiC) is the open networking solution used in Microsoft’s Azure Cloud.

SONiC is the networking switch software used in the lower layer of Azure Datacenter fabric (TOR and Aggregation).

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Veeam plug-in for Oracle RMAN can be used for transactionally-consistent RMAN-based backups of Oracle databases and in some cases (as described in the previous article) it could be the only way (or the preferred way) to manage Oracle database backup.

Probably the best way to manage it is from the Veeam Backup Console, as described in the previous article. But it’s also possible manage it manually.

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