In the previous posts, I explained how to configure and use Veeam Explorer for SAN Snapshots to create san-based snapshots of your VMs and make them available directly inside Veeam Backup & Replication (VBR). Now it’s time for the last post: how to use them to do restore operations. One…
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Veeam VESS series 4: Configure and browse LeftHand snapshots inside Veeam Backup & Replication
In the previous posts of this series, we completed the configuration on the HP leftHand side. This time, we are going to configure VESS itself. Network Connection LeftHand storage has no dedicated management interface. This has always created debates among its users, since many smaller storages has this opportunity….
Veeam VESS series 3: configure HP LeftHand snapshots
In the previous post of this series, I showed you how to check and properly configure your environment to be sure you can safely use storage snapshots. This time, I will show you how to configure and monitor snapshots on HP LeftHand. Create your LUN Snapshot schedule Once your…
Veeam VESS series 2: plan your new architecture
Veeam Explorer for San Snapshots actually supports only HP LeftHand storage, both physical or the VSA. Even if in the future other storage products will be supported, these concepts could be used as general guidance. The first steps you need to do even before start using VESS, is to check…
Upgrade vCenter 5.1 with 5.1.0a patches
I recently upgraded vCenter and all its component with the newly released 5.1.0a patches. This quick post is to resume the steps required to complete the upgrade. Download vCenter 5.1.0a ISO and mount it inside vCenter. If you splitted the components on several servers, use the ISO on the corrisponding…
Veeam VESS series 1: Introduction
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…
#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…