Increase the performance of your Veeam backups in network mode

Posted on June 28, 2016December 4, 2016 by Luca Dell'Oca 1 Comment

If you ever tried to do any file operation via the management interface of an ESXi host, like uploading an ISO file or running a backup using Network Mode, you may know the management interface is not running at the full speed of the underlying network interface, and the bandwidth you end up using is only a percentage of the total available. This limit is designed to preserve the availability of the management interface, but still there are situations where this limit is a problem, and you would like to increase it. Hopefully, there’s a solution.

The new backup mode in Veeam Backup & Replication v8

Posted on October 13, 2014December 4, 2016 by Luca Dell'Oca 15 Comments

When it comes to choosing a backup mode in Veeam Backup & Replication,there is a constant trade-off between space efficiency and I/O efficiency. Forward mode is I/O efficient, while Reversed is space efficient. The new method coming in v8 will combine the pros of each, to offer an even better backup experience.

Howto convert a physical RDM into a VMDK disk

Posted on June 17, 2013December 4, 2016 by Luca Dell'Oca 4 Comments

I’m working with a customer to refresh his VMware infrastructure. At the moment, the platform is based on ESX 3.5 and vCenter 2.5, so it’s pretty old. The upgrade phase is not going to be a problem, but the customer in the past has followed too much some old reccomendations, and has made a high […]

Convertire un physical RDM in un disco VMDK

Posted on June 17, 2013December 4, 2016 by Luca Dell'Oca 2 Comments

Sto lavorando presso un cliente a un progetto di rinnovo tecnologico della sua infrastruttura VMware. Attualmente, la piattaforma è basata su ESX 3.5 e vCenter 2.5, quindi parecchio arretrata. La fase di aggiornamenti vari non è un problema, se non che seguendo forse troppo alla lettera alcune raccomandazioni del passato, il cliente ha fatto un […]

#SFD3: Exablox launch

Posted on April 25, 2013April 25, 2013 by Luca Dell'Oca

Storage Field Day 3 event in Denver has started at full speed, and we were happy and lucky at the same time to have Exablox as our first presenting company: they launch publicly right at SFD3 coming out of stealth mode! Exablox If I should have to describe them in a sentence: “Object storage for […]

#SFD3: il lancio di Exablox

Posted on April 25, 2013August 25, 2019 by Luca Dell'Oca

La serie di incontri a cui sto partecipando allo Storage Field Day in Denver è partita col botto, abbiamo avuto la fortuna di avere come primo intervento Exablox, che annunciava proprio in occasione dell’incontro la sua uscita dallo stealth mode e si presentava al mondo. Exablox Dovessimo usare una sola frase per descriverli: “Object storage […]

When Veeam HotAdd mode does not works

Posted on February 21, 2013February 19, 2013 by Luca Dell'Oca

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 to write a post about […]

Quando la modalità HotAdd di Veeam non funziona

Posted on February 21, 2013December 4, 2016 by Luca Dell'Oca

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 farne un post. Esiste anche […]