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With vSphere 6, snapshot consolidation issues are a thing of the past!

Luca Dell'Oca, February 16, 2016February 7, 2016

Snapshot commit operations have always been a problem, especially for large and really active virtual machines. But vSphere 6 has introduced some changes that are probably going to make commits a problem of the past!

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Heads Up! Error in vSphere 5.5 when backing up vmdk at 2TB or larger (with HotAdd)

Luca Dell'Oca, January 7, 2014December 7, 2014

VMware has warned about a bug in VDDK 5.5: if you are running vSphere 5.5 and you backup a vmdk disk larger than 2TB using HotAdd mode, it fails silently, while it reports it completed successfully.

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Veeam Backup & Replication 7.0 R2 is out, with support for vSphere 5.5 and Hyper-V 2012 R2

Luca Dell'Oca, November 14, 2013November 20, 2013

Veeam has just released their new version of Veeam Backup & Replication, named 7.0 R2 (build number 7.0.0.764). Besides being the first release to use this new numbering type, the last release of their flagship backup software has some new important features: the first and foremost is the official support for the latest virtualization solutions, that are VMware vSphere 5.5 (along with vCloud Director 5.5) and Hyper-V 2012 R2.

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vSphere 5.5 and Veeam Backup & Replication: important design news on the horizon!

Luca Dell'Oca, October 7, 2013December 4, 2016

In vSphere 5.5 vStorage API for Data Protection (VDDK 5.5) will be available only in the 64 bit version. If you are using still 32bit machines to run your Data Protection solution, you better upgrade them to 64 bit.

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VMware vCenter Server 5.5: Installable vs Appliance

Luca Dell'Oca, September 27, 2013September 20, 2015

With the new release of vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) 5.5, VMware has made a huge step forward in order to make the appliance a real choice not only for test and small business environments, but also for medium and large ones. Specifically, the new limit of 100 hosts and 3000…

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