I was recently at a Symantec presentation, where they demoed Application HA. After a brief introduction about VMware HA (and the unfailing question “better to have physical or virtual vCenter?”), they explained the new HA in vSphere 5, particularly how VMware opened this system to third parties via API to…
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#Veeam HotAdd mode and IDE disks
If during a Veeam B&R job using Hot Add mode you receive an error like this: Processing the VM in Backup/Replica job in Virtual Appliance (hot-add) mode fails with the following error message: “Backing up object “[XXX_SXN] DXX-SXX2-TXX/DXX-SXX2-TXX.vmdk” BackupDiskFull failed Client error: Failed to open VDDK disk [[XXX_SXN] DXX-SXX2-TXX/DXX-SXX2-TXX.vmdk] (…
Home vLab: my new WhiteBox
I analyzed in a previous article which alternatives are available while designing our own home lab for VMware, and I ended up choosing the WhiteBox way. In the following weeks I looked through the products on the market, in order to find my own solution. I need to say thanks to my…
#Veeam Error “failed to open VDDK” and cached credentials
I was configuring a windows server for Veeam Backup & Replication 6 at a customer, and after some days of work I got a weird error while running some new backup jobs just created: Error: Client error: Failed to open VDDK disk [[XXXXXX] VMNAME/VMNAME.vmdk] ( is read-only mode – [true]…
Storage vMotion of a template
If you try to run storage vmotion against a template, you will realize it’s not allowed in the GUI. So, you end up with two solutions: – “quick and dirty”: convert template to VM, run Storage vMotion, convert back VM to template – “SysAdmin style”, useful if you have several…
An SSD disk on your laptop: fancy or investment?
Recently I changed the hard disk of my MacBook Pro 13″ with an SSD disk. Previous disk, coming with the Mac, was a Seagate Momentus 5400.6 da 250 Gb. Having my disk fully loaded with data, I looked around for a SSD disk with the same capacity, and I finally…
[EN] ExtPart: step-by-step how-to expand Windows virtual disks
If you have a Windows virtual machine with an operating system prior to Windows 2008, where this function is available, you need a third-party tool to expand your partitions. This tutorial will explain you, step-by-step, how to do this task; you can do it on both data disks and boot…
Dear Cloud Provider: “where are you storing my data?”
Last week I’ve been invited at the 40 years anniversary of ATED, a IT non-profit organization bases in Canton Ticino, in Lugano. During the meeting, atendees had the possibility to talk with some experts, and I was asked to talk (of course) about virtualization and cloud computing. Among the people…