Virtualization
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Veeam the object has already been deleted or has not been completely created
A quick post here of an issue I ran into supporting a Veeam Backup job in a particular environment. After needing to restore a handful of VMs to rollback a few bad changes made, the next backup job failed. The…
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P2V Windows Cluster Rapid Recovery
The last few days I have been involved with a project to P2V an old Windows 2003 (yes cringe, bang head against wall now) cluster running SQL 2005. The P2V is simply a stop gap solution to get the cluster…
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Try Nakivo 6.1 Beta Download
Having used a lot of different backup products over the years in the enterprise and in the home lab environment, there are many qualities of a backup software that become important – functionality, simplicity, and stability. You want something that…
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VMware NSX Domain conflict with 1 existing domain
Recently, I ran into a peculiar issue with VMware NSX trying to add domains for security grouping. Through the GUI the process is fairly straightforward. However, after adding a domain in testing, removing, and adding again, I ran into an…
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P2V Linux server network config
I wanted to write up a quick post of a few hurdles I went through with P2V’ing a linux web server that was also running cPanel. The P2V process worked as expected, however upon the first boot of the VM,…
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Nakivo Backup & Replication v6.0 Install and Impressions
These days there are quite a few backup and replication products on the market for the virtual environments that may be considered when choosing a way to protect critical VMs and data. However, there are a few that set themselves apart…
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Installing Rapid Recovery agent Linux
If you are using Rapid Recovery in your environment, you will most likely have a Linux box that you would like to add to your protected servers at some point. Recently I added a Linux box to Rapid Recovery and…
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Troubleshooting VMware VCSA 6 disk space issues
Over the past weekend, I noticed via alerts that there were issues connecting to my vCenter environment. I have seen some false positives before with the alerts and vCenter connectivity, so I wasn’t too concerned at first. However, upon just…
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PowerCLI change network label for all VMs in a folder
Just a quick blurb and a useful one liner used to change all the Network labels for all virtual machines that existed in a vCenter folder. I had a situation in a lab where I imported numerous server VMs from…
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Altaro VM Backup Install and configuration
Lately, I have been doing a lot of testing with backup software and other POC’s related to DR plans, backups, replications, etc. With that said, I stumbled onto and pulled down a copy of the Altaro VM Backup software to…
