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…
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#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…
#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…