SureBackup by Veeam
I was one of a few blogger that were invited to participate yesterday in a Bloggers briefing - given by Doug Hazelman - presenting Veeam’s new product Surebackup. Well this is not actually a new …
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While trying to VMotion a VM I hit an error because of a Mounted CD. Well you might say – that is simple. Just go into the GUI and then disconnect it. But this time it was connected and open in …
A running VM that did not exist
This was a weird one that hit me today. I had a performance issue on a server. esxtop is the first I thing I looked at and got this: ID GID NAME NWLD %USED %RUN %SYS %WAIT %RDY 69 69 VSE 5 83.98 85.74 …
Network Ports needed for VMware Products
As usual looking for this list of which ports need to be punched through the firewall in order allow all kinds of services to work correctly. Well today – I tried to scan a host for (that is behind a …
How to Throttle Removing ESX Snapshots
Recently we had a planned maintenance window that required shutting down power to the entire building. As part of the procedure we created snapshots of each VM before the powerdown. With PowerCLI this …
ESX 4.0 Active Directory Authentication
There are numerous posts about how to use Active Directory to authenticate your ssh logins to your ESX servers. Jason Boche,Travis Laird, Geert Baeke The idea is pretty simple Configure the ESX server …
Is 100mb Enough for the Service Console?
It is accepted practice amongst most of the virtualization world that you can use a 100mb/s link for your Service Console port, because there is not much traffic that is flowing over that link. Well …
Veeam FastSCP - Supports Win7 and Win2008R2
Last week I posted the link to the Beta release. Today Veeam announces the release of version 3.0.2 that now supports Windows 7 and Windows 2008 R2. Release Notes New Features The following is a list …
Optimize NFS settings for Celerra
In continuation to both Jason Boche’s and Scott Lowe’s excellent posts about the recommended Advanced Settings for ESX while using a Celerra NFS mount, and after Jase McCarty’s post …
VMFS or NFS
We are outgrowing our current storage capabilities, and virtualization is one of main “customers” that is causing this. So we are now looking for a 2nd storage that will enable us to …