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]…
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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…
Home vLab: how to design it?
Writing about technology requires (among others) one skill: expertise. Thanks to internet, what we write and publish is instantly available to a wide audience, that can appreciate our work only if a following check confirms what we wrote was true. In virtualization world, this means, for both bloggers like me…
[EN] Permissions for snapshots management
Some weeks ago, a customer has reverted by mistake a snapsoht taken on a domain controller, that was some months old… Obviously Active Directory, replicated on another VM, has started working badly, and it took us several days f hard work on the AD database (using adsiedit and other tools…)…
[EN] #Veeam Backup & Replication 6 preview: 1-Click File Restore
In Veeam B&R 5 file level restore has always been managed by IT admins. The need to look for a specific backup set, to mount related disks and final copy/paste to conclude the restore process were actvities hardly delegatable directly to users. With version 6, these limitations has been nicely…