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Veeam Backup with PernixData write-back caching

Luca Dell'Oca, March 31, 2014December 4, 2016

PernixData is, as of today, the only server-side caching solution for VMware offering write-back capabilities, that is the possibility to accelerate write operations. This feature is extremely helpful in increasing performances in virtualized environments running write intensive applications like databases, mail servers and others. However, the usage of this feature requires some proper configuration in order to correctly protect VM with Veeam Backup

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Avviso! Problemi con vSphere 5.5 e il backup di dischi virtuali di 2TB e oltre

Luca Dell'Oca, January 7, 2014January 6, 2014

VMware ha segnalato un bug in VDDK 5.5, per il quale su vSphere 5.5 il backup di dischi grandi 2 TB o oltre tramite la modalità HotAdd fallisce in modo silenzioso, mentre viene indicato come completato con successo.

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When Veeam HotAdd mode does not works

Luca Dell'Oca, February 21, 2013February 19, 2013

HotAdd is one of the available modes to backup a VM with Veeam, and one of the preferred once when the Veeam proxies are installed as virtual machines themselves. However, there are situations where HotAdd mode does not work, and since it appears to be a frequent question, I decided…

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Quando la modalità HotAdd di Veeam non funziona

Luca Dell'Oca, February 21, 2013December 4, 2016

HotAdd è una delle modalità disponibili in Veeam per fare il backup di una VM, e una delle preferite quando i proxy Veeam sono installati essi stessi come virtual machines. Tuttavia, ci sono alcune situazioni in cui HotAdd non funziona, e dato che pare una domanda ricorrente ho deciso di…

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Pre-emptively enable HotAdd/HotPlug of a VM

Luca Dell'Oca, May 17, 2012May 8, 2012

It happens often to have to do maintenance on Virtual Machines bacause of an exhaustion of computing resources. A web server with many more visitors than those predicted when it was sized, a database server with newly added application, there are many examples. In thse situations, a sysadmin schedules the…

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Abilitare le funzioni HotAdd/HotPlug di una VM preventivamente!

Luca Dell'Oca, May 17, 2012May 8, 2012

Capita spesso di assistere ad attività di manutenzione di Virtual Machine a causa del raggiungimento di limiti prestazionali. Un web server che riceve più visite di quante erano state previste durante il suo dimensionamento, un database server cui vengono aggiunti nuovi applicativi, ci sono tantissimi esempi. In questi casi, il…

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#Veeam Backup Hot Add fallisce dopo un File Level Restore

Luca Dell'Oca, March 7, 2012December 4, 2016

Se state usando Veeam Backup 6 e fate i backup sulla stessa macchina che effettua anche i Restore (tipicamente un singolo server Windows con tutti i ruoli di Veeam presenti) potreste aver verificato questo comportamento. Dopo un’attività di File Level Restore, i job di backup che solitamente erano in grado…

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#Veeam HotAdd mode and IDE disks

Luca Dell'Oca, January 30, 2012December 4, 2016

If during a Veeam B&R job using Hot Add mode you receive an error like this: Processing the VM in Backup/Replica job in Virtual Appliance (hot-add) mode fails with the following error message: “Backing up object “[XXX_SXN] DXX-SXX2-TXX/DXX-SXX2-TXX.vmdk” BackupDiskFull failed Client error: Failed to open VDDK disk [[XXX_SXN] DXX-SXX2-TXX/DXX-SXX2-TXX.vmdk] (…

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