Recently a customer has added a new ESXi server to his vSphere cluster. Since he has vCloud Standard licenses, I already created a distributed switch to allow an automatic, consistent and error-free configuration of the network settings of all servers. The network migration wizard had worked great and the new…
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Veeam Backup and the maintenance of a Reverse Incremental Job
Veeam reverse incremental backups are since their introduction one of the most appreciated features among their users. At the price of an increase in I/O on the backup storage when compared with a traditional incremental backup, it allows for a single full backup file and a long chain of increments, thus offering huge savings on disk space.
However many users ignore that even a Reverse Incremental backups are not “Set and Forget”. Even if a reversed chain can be years long, this kind of usage is not recommended, rather it can lead to several problems.
StoreVirtual VSA 10.0, memory requirements and RAID errors
While configuring my lab, I would like to use some local storage inside two of my servers, by installing some VSA. I usually run with great satisfaction the HP VSA, who has been renamed recently StoreVirtual even if it keeps in some places its old name LeftHand (and also in…
Skype, suspended accounts, and its stupid security rules
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…
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…