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[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…
VMware View and Microsoft VDA
I found this post on the VMware community I would like to share with you: Here is the question we posed to Alexander R. Vasilakos, West Region Lead, Telephone Partner Account Manager (TPAM) Microsoft Corporation powered by Tech Data: “I do not own a Microsoft OS license. I have a…
[EN] #Veeam Backup & Replication 6 preview: scalability
During VMworld Europe 2011, held in Copenhagen, I was able to see a preview of the new upcoming features of Veeam Backup & Replication 6. Besides the already known support for Hyper-V, the most important news are coming once again for the VMware platform. Here and in some following articles,…
VMware ESXCLI 5.0 Reference Poster
With the launch of ESXi 5.0, esxcfg has been dismissed in favor of esxcli (I talked about it here). VMware released a complete poster with all new commands, equivalences with the old ones, and other useful info, in a poster you can download here, print and bring with you.