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…
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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…
#Veeam Backup & Replication and vSphere 5.1 support
The hype around the new vSphere 5.1 is going strong these days, and many people downloaded and installed it as soon as the binaries were available. Many of them installed it upgrading their current 5.0 environment, but they got many problems with Veeam 6.1 jobs failing with errors. In one…
The Paradox of Exchange 2010 reduced IO requirements and vSphere VADP-based backups
VMware snapshots are the base of every backup solution designed around VADP (VMware APIs for Data Protection). If a virtual disk can be snapshotted, it can be saved. Plain and simple. However, there are some situations where this solution can eventually lead to some problems. The best known, and if…
Configure HP ILO directly on ESXi server
I recently installed the HP drivers on some customers’ server following these two great guides: Add HP drivers to VMware Update Manager (VUM) from Ivo Beerens Update your HP drivers with VMware Update Manager from Viktor van den Berg Those two blog posts are really useful resources to understand how to…
StarWind and Cirrus Tech Partner to Deliver Cutting Edge Technologies to the Cloud Computing Market
Press Release: Burlington, MA – 6 August 2012 – StarWind Software Inc., an innovative provider of storage virtualization software and VM backup technology, announced today a new partnership agreement with Cirrus Tech Ltd., a Canadian web hosting company specializing in VPS, VM and cloud hosting services. Companies collaborate to deliver best-in-breed Cloud…
Veeam Explorer for Microsoft Exchange
Application recovery in Veeam Backup and Replication has always been great. Thanks to their Instant Recovery technology and its ability to power up any VM at any restore point directly from the backup file, it’s possible to have a VM up and running in few minutes without waiting for long…
Am I doing backups of all my VMs?
Note: I had a first idea about a way to do these checks and you will still find traces of it in Veeam forums, however the ongoing discussion has lead to this present version, and it’s really different from the original code, and much better. Kudos for Powershell cod e…