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Backup Software
Failed to prepare guest Veeam Guest Agent is not started
If you run into the error in Veeam “Failed to prepare guest Veeam Guest AGent is not started”, often there is an issue with the VMware Tools service. If VMware tools is in a bad state, when application aware is…
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home lab
How to Signup for VMUG Advantage EVALExperience
VMUG EVALExperience is a great way to have access to the core VMware vSphere technologies as well as licensing and many other benefits for a very reasonable price. If you are wanting to sharpen your VMware skills for certification or…
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Backup Software
Install Veeam 9.5 Backup and Replication Remote Console with PowerShell Snapin
Installing Veeam Backup & Replication Console remotely is a great way to have the Veeam Console tools available on an administrative workstation where one does not have to login to the Veeam server in order to check jobs, replication, etc.…
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Backup Software
Vembu BDR Suite 3.7 Quick Overview of New Features
Vembu Technologies recently released their flagship offering, Vembu BDR Suite v3.7 which provides many enhancements over the previous versions. Vembu BDR Suite v3.7 is an all encompassing product that allows you to cover the entire gamut of use cases in…
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vSphere 6.5
VMware vSphere 6.5 Change vmkernel MTU size
When dealing with VMkernel ports in vSphere 6.5 for most use cases for performance, we want to enable jumbo frames on the vmkernel ports to allow for less fragmentation of the packets for iSCSI, vMotion, and so forth. Let’s take…
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Powershell
Automatically add corresponding Veeam backup copy and replication jobs with Powershell
I had written just a few days ago about a PowerShell script to compare Veeam copy or replication jobs to the regular backup jobs you have setup and see which ones are missing. This is useful if you have single…
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VMware PowerCLI
VMware PowerCLI quickly add multiple VM vmnics
PowerCLI is a powerful tool that can be utilized to quickly perform tasks in a VMware environment. One of the overly painful tasks that you encounter when configuring or reconfiguring a VM is adding vmnics. Especially is this painful if…
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Backup Software
Veeam Windows Agent Bare Metal Restore to VM
A few days ago I wrote a post about the Veeam Windows Agent Beta Install and Configuration which showed the installation and config of the new Beta 2 of the Windows agent. Let’s take a look at a common scenario…
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Powershell
Mirror Hard drives without using RAID
When we think of traditional hard drive mirrors with RAID technology, we are usually talking about a RAID controller either software or hardware based that is performing parity operations on two hard drives and present the two hard drives as…
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Hyper-V
Setup Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V VM Replication
Setting up Hyper-V replication allows you to replicate a virtual machine from one Hyper-V environment over to another. The nice things about replication in the Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisor world is that there is no appliance to have to setup or…
