vmware
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Backup Software
Vembu BDR Suite 3.6 Hands On Review
Recently, Vembu announced the release of version 3.6 of their BDRย product. ย For those not familiar with Vembu BDR Suite, it is an all-in-one universal solution for backing up your VMware and Hyper-V environmentsย as well as physical servers.ย Vembuย BDR Suite products cover…
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VMware
VMware PowerCLI Instant Clone Lab
Most of you have probably already heard quite some time ago about VMware project Fargo which has now matured into VMware Instant Fork technology that allows rapid deployment via rapid cloning of an already running virtual machine. ย This is especially…
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vSphere 6
Lost access to volume due to connectivity issues
Recently, I ran into an issue with a host where performance would tank from the client side. ย VM consoles and RDP sessions would disconnect as well as the host would become unresponsive to any types of commands within the vCenter…
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vSphere 6
Can you Install VMware ESXi on 4kn Drives
The answer to the question posed in the post title is – yes you can INSTALL ESXi on 4kn drives. However as I tested recently, the problem you will run into is being able to add a datastore. Let’s take…
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Powershell
Reset unresponsive VM with Powershell PowerCLI
I had a recent use case to be able to check the reachability of a certain VM which had shown itself to be problematic. ย If the VM wasn’t responsive or had crashed, restarting the VM with aย graceful restart via VMware…
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VMware
There was an error connecting to NSX manager API
A quick issue I ran into yesterday connecting a restful API client to an NSX manager – “there was an error connecting”. ย As I had connected to this manager before using an API client, I knew that it was accessible…
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VMware
ESXi 6 Configure Management Network Greyed out
The other day when playing around “rather hard” with distributed switches and NSX, I broke my distributed switch implementation on one of my lab ESXi 6 hosts. ย I couldn’t ping the host, and also even worse, couldn’t get to the…
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Virtualization
Stretch isolated network between multiple ESXi servers
Setting up testing networks and lab networks have been very interesting to meย the past few weeks. ย When you are setting up Dev and Staging environments, the requirements may be to have multiple copies of production environments properly segmented and functioning…
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Virtualization
ESXi 6.0 Install Can’t Have a Partition Outside the disk
This past week in working with a Supermicro lab host filled with 12 4TB drives, I ran into an issue with the ESXi 6.0 installer that was a bit peculiar – Can’t have a partition outside the disk. ย The storage…
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Virtualization
Nakivo Backup & Replication 6.1 – powerful choice for VM backup
Just a quick blurb to spread the news about Nakivo Backup & Replication 6.1. ย It is now in GA release trim and it has improved on the already great interface and features available to the enterprise. ย The great thing about…