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Hard drive sanitisation - A homebrew approach

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The most efficient means of sanitising computers and/or a storage media device is to overwrite the entire device with zeroes or with a random pattern.

CloudBoost Disaster Recovery

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If the CloudBoost appliance encounters a failure you must deploy a second CloudBoost appliance to restore the metadata from backups in the cloud.

Configuring a CloudBoost Share

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You must configure the shared data store immediately after you have deloyed the CloudBoost virtual appliance.

Deploying the CloudBoost virtual appliance

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After you configure the CloudBoost virtual app via vSphere cli you can login the CloudBoost management console to configure its deployment settings.

Upgrading the CloudBoost virtual appliance

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On the Support page, you can see what version of CloudBoost is currently running, and you can upgrade the CloudBoost virtual appliance.

Configuring the CloudBoost virtual appliance

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After you have installed CloudBoost virtual appliance, you must next configure the IP settings and hostname for CloudBoost from the VM console.