A couple of weeks ago a new case exploded around Azure virtual machines, and on-premises as well, and specifically those Linux with Open Management Infrastructures on board. In deep there are three Elevation of Privilege (EoP) vulnerabilities (CVE-2021-38645, CVE-2021-38649, CVE-2021-38648) and one unauthenticated Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerability (CVE-2021-38647). Open Management Infrastructure (OMI) is an open-source Web-Based Enterprise […]
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Hyper-V Series: NUMA configuration after VM migration between hosts
In the past I wrote an article about Non-Uniform Memory Access (NUMA), the system architecture that is used with multiprocessor designs to connect CPU and RAM is the same bus, the result is low latency and great performance. Local memory is the memory that is on the same node as the CPU currently running the […]
Veeam Backup & Replication: fix the error cannot do HvPrepareSnapshot
What happen when Veeam Backup & Replication is not able to interact with your hypervisor to run backup job? The answer is easy: fails. The Integration Services allows some applications to create a channel between host and guest VM; Veeam use this integration to run Guest File Indexing but also, the most important, Application-Aware Processing. […]
Windows Admin Center: how to clone a VM
Another cool tool introduced in Windows Admin Center v2007 is the capability to clone a virtual machine from another. This option wasn’t present in Hyper-V Manager or Failover Cluster Manager but only in Virtual Machine Manager, so is a very good point. The procedure is not complicated but there some small consideration before starts. First […]
Windows Admin Center: cluster creation extension
One of the great new feature introduced in Windows Admin Center v2007 is the Cluster Creation extension, a new way to build hyperconverged cluster easily. In this moment the extension is in preview mode so not all the features are already available but the product team is working to close the gap. In this article […]
Veeam Management Pack v9 GA
In July Veeam has released the new Management Pack for System Center Operations Manager v9 and this is new major update since years. For who don’t know the product, is an extension to improve monitoring, in SCOM, of Microsoft Hyper-V VMware ESXi and vCenter Veeam Backup & Replication Just to explain something about Operations Manager, […]
Introducing Azure Dedicated Host
Cloud is good, cloud is safe, cloud is for everyone. This a truth but sometimes is not enough for some companies. As you probably know, the Azure hosts are used by multiple tenants and the virtual machines are isolated using a multi-tenant hypervisor; so, we have many servers, many VMs, many customers. To be honest, […]
Azure VM Generation 2 Preview
Today is a great day! The product team has announced the first public preview of Azure Virtual Machine Generation 2. Can be strange but until today, all the virtual machine on Azure are created in Generation 1 and this is not good for performance and security as well. So why Microsoft use yet this kind […]
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Don’t miss the next Microsoft Ignite 2018 Tour in Milan from January 31 to February 1, 2019. Join us at the place where developers and tech professionals continue learning alongside experts. Explore the latest developer tools and cloud technologies and learn how to put your skills to work in new areas. Connect with our community to […]
Azure Templates: Automate Virtual Machine Creation
Create an object in Microsoft Azure is very easy and in few minutes it’s possible generate a new virtual machine, or a storage account, ready to be used. If we want create the same object many times, there’s a big chance to have two problems: repeat the same task (boring) and the risk to commit […]