Few weeks ago I turned on Skype after a few weeks of time, and I found a “surprise”: your skype account has been suspended for security reasons. Argh, What could have happened? I usually use somewhat complex password in all my various accounts on the internet, and as far as possible…
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When Veeam HotAdd mode does not works
HotAdd is one of the available modes to backup a VM with Veeam, and one of the preferred once when the Veeam proxies are installed as virtual machines themselves. However, there are situations where HotAdd mode does not work, and since it appears to be a frequent question, I decided…
Keep a fixed backup file name in Veeam Backup & Replication
Starting from version 5, Veeam has introduced a new naming convention for its backup files, appending a timestamp to every new created file: This nomenclature is convenient to identify immediately the date and time of a specific backup, but with Reverse Incremental bakup jobs this new system creates many problems…
Whitepaper: “HP + Veeam: Fast VMware Recovery from SAN Snapshots”
I recently wrote a series of posts about Veeam Explorer for SAN snapshots. Veeam guys were so happy about my posts they decide to combine all of them in a whitepaper, and they published it in their website few days ago. If you want to have a copy, go here…
100 ways to design Veeam
A few weeks ago, while looking at some posts in the Veeam forums, I saw a quote about a slide deck created by Timothy Dewin, Veeam Systems engineer. It’s an amazing presentation, simple and powerful at the same time in its goal to explain all possible ways you can deploy…
Enable VASA Provider for HP Storage
In a previous post, I explained how to install and configure HP Insight Control for VMware vCenter 7.1.1 to monitor and manage an HP LeftHand storage directly inside vCenter Web Client. The HP software also adds VASA capabilities to vCenter, useful to create Storage Profiles based on effective storage capabilities directly…
Balance multiple View Connection Servers using HAProxy
In medium and large deployments, you can distribute the load on VMware View Connection Server by adding many of them thanks to the “Replica” role. However, the balance and failover between them is not available directly inside the software. To distribute View clients among them, you need an external balancer….
HP Insight Control for VMware vCenter 7.1.1, installation and usage
HP has recently released the latest version of their Insight Control, numbered 7.1.1. As per the official webpage: The HP Insight Control extension for VMware vCenter Server delivers powerful HP hardware management capabilities to virtualization administrators, enabling comprehensive deployment, provisioning, monitoring, remote control and power optimization directly from the vCenter console….