Disclaimer: after these upcoming articles about this technology, Moresi.Com SA, the company I work for, signed an agreement with ExaGrid and we are actually Value Added Reseller of ExaGrid, with the further authorization to directly purchase and sell without any distributor all over Switzerland and Italy. However, I had no…
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Veeam Backup 5, still some issues with vSphere 5
As stated in a forum post by Anton Gostev, Veeam Backup & Replication 5.0.2 has still some incompatibilities with the new vSphere 5: • Incremental replication passes to ESXi 5 target fail (initial pass works normally). • Backup in direct SAN access mode will fail for VM disks on VMFS5…
Veeam Backup and timeout error on ESX
If you are still using full ESX servers in your VMware environment, and you want to use Veeam Backup, keep in mind this problem and its solution. When you add an ESX node to Veeam Backup, you are asked for credentials to login to the node, these can be the…
Update ESXi to 5.0 using Update Manager
After upgrading vCenter in a previous post, I used the Update Manager inside vCenter to upgrade in an easy and automated way several ESXi hosts to version 5.0. First of all, we need to import ISO images of ESXi 5.0, previously downloaded. We open then the Admin View of Update Manager,…
Upgrade vCenter from 4.1 to 5.0
I received during the weekend my new license codes for the 5.0 lineup of VMware products, so I tried and found a couple of hours to test the upgrade process of vCenter. This is the first element of a 4.1 cluster you need to upgrade to 5.0, cause it can…
VMware View: useful links
While preparing my first View projects coming in the next months, I collected some links in this dedicated page. List is going to be updated, extended and modified in the future, so come back here from time to time to check. Licensing: How to license Microsoft Windows 7 for…
Add drivers to ESXi 4.1
I needed recently to prepare an HO Proliant DL360 G6 for one of my customers. The server had the usual on-board network card by broadcom, and it was added a quad-port HP NC365T, based on Intel chipset 82580 MAC. Unfortunately, even the last ESXi 4.1 U1 was able to detect…
Dell Management Plug-In for VMware vCenter
Some times ago I read an excellent article by Enrico Signoretti titled “I server sono tutti uguali” (“servers are all equal”, only in italian). I agree with his conclusions: today server components makers are few and every server use some of them, cpu ram and boards are standardized, and basically…