Now that Veeam Backup & Replication 6.5 is generally available, it’s time to deep dive into my personal favorite feature of this new version: Veeam Explorer for SAN Storage (VESS). I already described it here, so I’m not going to repeat it again. This time, I created a blog series…
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#Veeam Backup: force a backup in network mode
I recently had some problems with some VMs brefly freezing during snapshot removal. As described in this VMware KB article, using VADP libraries with HotAdd method can cause this issue. Even if my storage is iSCSI and not NFS, nonetheless the tests I did by forcing a proxy to run…
Manage an HP Smart Array directly from VMware ESXi
In my lab I’m using a Proliant DL380 G5 filled with disk as a storage server, running some VSA on top of the volume I created and formatted with a vmfs filesystem. I was running into performance issues, storage was performing poorly, and I needed to check for usual problems…
Home vLab: no more “home”
For sure working in a datacenter has its advantages. One of them is the lifecyle of production servers, and what you can do once they are dismissed from production. In the past months we dismissed some HP Proliant DL380 G5. Quite old for our computing needs because of the CPUs…
#Veeam Backup & Replication 6.5 is out
Today, Veeam has announced the latest version of its flagship product, Veeam Backup & Replication 6.5. As usual, Veeam has put a lot of effort in its product and the new release is really full of new and awesome features, as also many improvements to existing ones. Veeam Explorer for…
How to send #Veeam backups offsite on Windows servers
Once you have configured Veeam Backup & Replication to protect your virtual machines, usually the second step everyone wants to do is replicate those backups in a remote location. Apart from using replica jobs for Disaster Recovery purposes, simple configuration for non-critical environment (SMBs, home offices…) can nonetheless take advantage…
#Veeam Backup and FT protected VMs
FT (Fault tolerance) protected virtual machines are among the most awesome features VMware allows today. VMs with zero-downtime are tempting, and even with 1 vCPU limit, there are use cases where you can take advantage of them. Another limit however has always discouraged its usage: you cannot take snapshots. Every…
CIM monitoring configuration on ESXi via powershell
As in many datacenters, we use monitoring software to control many parameters of our infrastructure. Thanks to CIM, is it possible to use directly these APIs to monitor hardware and health status of the ESXi servers, rather than using script and agents to accomplish the same results. Nagios has some…