Luca Dell'Oca Principal Cloud Architect @Veeam

Tag: migration

Migrate WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) to a new computer

Luca Dell'Oca, May 7, 2025

Recently I received a new company laptop, so among other things I wanted to migrate my existing WSL installation with Ubuntu 22.04. I didn’t want to reinstall and reconfigure all the software in the virtual machine, so I looked for ways to migrate the entire system.
Here’s the process, you will find out it’s very straightforward!

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Error “Unable to retrieve the migration assistant extension on source vCenter Server. Make sure migration assistant is running on the VUM server” when upgrading vCenter appliance

Luca Dell'Oca, February 2, 2017January 29, 2017

Learn how to fix the error “Unable to retrieve the migration assistant extension on source vCenter Server. Make sure migration assistant is running on the VUM server” when you are upgrading your vCenter Server appliance from 6.0 to 6.5.

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Netflix runs 100% on AWS now

Luca Dell'Oca, March 8, 2016March 7, 2016

Netflix decided in 2008 that its new business model would have been the complete consumption of public cloud, specifically AWS. It took 8 years to the leader in Video Streaming to complete the migration of its services into AWS, and now Netflix doesn’t run any significant workload in its own premises.