We recently deployed a new customer in our datacenter, who was migrating his servers from an on-premise Hyper-V cluster towards our VMware vCloud. Their sysadmins brought us their VM already converted in VMware format, so we started immediately to import them in our vSphere 5 clusters. Sadly, VMs converted from…
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Pre-emptively enable HotAdd/HotPlug of a VM
It happens often to have to do maintenance on Virtual Machines bacause of an exhaustion of computing resources. A web server with many more visitors than those predicted when it was sized, a database server with newly added application, there are many examples. In thse situations, a sysadmin schedules the…
#VMUGIT HandsOnDay: Acronis VMProtect 7
Lat week we hosted, as part of VMUGIT HandsOnDay series, Acronis with their VMProtect 7 software. Acronis is globally known for their TrueImage software, a cloning solution I used in the past like thousands of others with great success. So I’ve been suprised at first to know TrueImage nowadays is…
Testing vSphere FT on unsupported processors (even in nested mode!)
This is a guest post by Massimiliano Moschini, recentyl awarded vExpert 2012! For those who want to test vSphere FT (Fault Tolerance) but does not have supported processors (have a look at the supported processors in KB 1008027), or if you have a lab made with nested ESXi, yes is…
Fusion-IO: ESXi installation
As I described in a previous article, Fusion-IO cards are not natively supported by VMware ESXi. After installing the card and restart the server, you can see that it claims there is no persistent storage available, not even a lun or local disk to be formatted: So, we need to…
Using #Veeam Backup server as a pure command console
In the new v6 architecture, Veeam Backup & Replication allows the creation of complex and highly performing environments by adding proxies and repositories, instructed and orchestrated by the central Veeam Backup Server. This server however still holds its own proxy and repository roles, created during the installation. Is it possible…
Fusion-IO: an overview
I recently received from Fusion-IO a 640 Gb IODrive card to be used in my Home Lab. Fusion-IO designs, produces and sells a series of cards loaded with NAND chipsets, installable in servers via PCI-E connections. They are seen by the supported OS (Windows Server, VMware ESX and some linux distributions)…
Recommended settings to use #Veeam Backup with #ExaGrid
Since this issue appears frequently in the Veeam forums, I decided to recap in this post all the settings you can set in Veeam to better use an ExaGrid appliance: Inline deduplication: ON ExaGrid is the only dedup appliance where, as of today, combining Veeam and its own deduplication gives…