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…
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[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…
[EN] VM alignment, problems and solutions
In a VMware environment, there are three different storage layers that abstract physical disk from the storage up to the virtual machines (imagines are taken from a ESX 3 whitepaper, Recommendations for Aligning VMFS Partitions): Every layer oganizes informations following its own logics, and many times these are not aligned with…
[EN] #Veeam Backup & Replication 6 preview: Advanced Replication
Second article about the new features of Veeam Backup & Replication 6, today we talk about Advanced Replication. Replication has been always one of the strenght point of Veeam, even if sometimes underestimated. Using inexpensive standby hosts, delta syncs and usage of dissimilar storage (has also VMware did in SRM…