A few days ago i received a company Macbook and while in the process of setting it up i noted that the default shell was set to zsh which is the recommended one from Apple these days. My personal preference has been and still is bash so this will be a quick blog post about …
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Enter Company – new VCDX56 blog sponsor
I’m happy to announce Enter Company as a new VCDX56 blog sponsor which is a software development company with over 20 years of IT experience. They are trusted by thousands of companies in more than 160 countries. Iperius Backup, which is their backup and restore solution, can perform incremental and differential backups of virtual machines and much …
Veeam Availability Suite V10 Released
A few days ago, 18:th of February 2020, Veeam released a new version of their Availability Suite so now we are at version 10. There are more than 150 features packed in this release and the most awesome once are covered in the online launch event which is recorded so I recommend you to take …
NAKIVO Backup & Replication Version 9.2 Released
It has only been a few weeks since NAKIVO released previous version of their Backup & Replication product and now it is time again. Pretty impressive innovation phase. Latest release is now 9.2 The 9.2 release is all about backup up & restoring to Office 365. So if you’re looking for a solution to secure your …
Nutanix .Next On Tour Sweden 2020
Today its about six weeks, until the .Next on tour Stockholm Sweden takes place which is 17:th of March. If you haven’t secured your seat yet there is still some time to get that fixed. During the event you’ll get latest updates around Nutanix and get a chance to meet your industry peers and Nutanix …
Nutanix Erasure Coding (EC-X) – How it works
Nutanix Erasure Coding (EC-X) is one of the storage reduction technologies available in Nutanix Acropolis Operating System (AOS) which is basically the Nutanix cluster. It basically takes one or two data copies and create a parity that can be used to recreate the data if required. I have had quite a few questions regarding how …
NAKIVO Backup & Replication Version 9.1 Released
Today, 2020-01-21, NAKIVO released a new version of their Backup & Replication product meaning the latest version is now 9.1. As I guess you’re already familiar with Nakivo can backup the following sources: AHV based VMs AWS EC2 ESXi based VMs Hyper-V based VMs Physical Windows Servers The above is great and covers a great majority …
Vembu BDR Suite v4.1 Released
A while ago Vembu Technologies, also known as just Vembu, released version 4.1 of their BDR solution which is a suite of products that provides Backup & Restore plus Disaster Recovery. There are some pretty nice new features in version 4.1, e.g: Integrity Check Management – Option to schedule, previously every 24h, when all or …
Zerto 7.5 Released
A few days ago, 2019-09-24, Zerto release a new version of its Continuous Data Protection product which means the latest and greatest version is now 7.5. New features and enhancements are made in the following four main categories: Advanced Analytics Journal sizing for storage capacity Throughput Graph so you can clearly see trends for a …
Vembu BDR Suite Free Edition Upgraded
For about two years ago I wrote a blog post about Vembu releasing a free version of their BDR (Backup, recovery & disaster recovery) software which you can read more about here. This is just a quick blog post to let you know three major changes to the free version. Unlimited VM Backup – Full-feature …
VeeamOn Virtual November 2019
Just a quick post to let you know that this years annual VeeamOn Virtual event has changed date from the two previous years. Crazy, right ? 🙂 This year the event will take place 20 November. As mentioned before I like virtual events since I don’t have to travel and can just sit in my …
macOS – LC_CTYPE Locale UTF-8 Warning When Using SSH
A while ago I started to get an annoying warning message when using SSH to connect from my MacBook Pro, running macOS Mojave version 10.14.6, to some, not all, remote systems using the built-in Terminal application, iTERM2 or whatever other application providing a SSH capability. Error message: You can read more about UNIX environment variables, …
Chance To Win VMworld US 2019 Tickets Via Veeam
If you haven’t purchased or even decided if you’ll attend VMworld US, taking place in San Francisco 25-29 August 2019 at Moscone Center, I would like to let you know that once again Veeam gives you a chance to win VMworld tickets. These are full conference passes and will be given out to three lucky winners. The only thing you need …
NAKIVO Backup & Replication Version 9.0 Released
Two days ago, 2019-07-23, NAKIVO released a new version of their Backup & Replication product meaning the latest version is now 9.0. The 9.0 version comes with two major new features including: Backup support for physical Windows Servers Support for Hyper-V 2019 (new release available since June 19) This means you can now use NAKIVO …
Use Your Apple Watch To Auto Unlock Your MacBook
I’m quite new to Apple Watch, having a version 4 with cellular which I’m really happy about. Recently I came across this nice feature where you use your Watch to auto unlock your MacBook. Yes auto unlock and not auto login first time after power on, restart, and logoff. Before you configure auto unlock make …
SSH Access Using SSH Keys – Passwordless If Required
Being able to access a system without remembering 1000 different passwords all the time is really convenient and at least saves me a lot of time. SSH (Secure Shell) provides a way of doing this by using private and public keys where the private key is something you should keep for yourself and the public …















