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VMworld 2015 in Barcelona summary.
Last couple of days I stayed in Barcelona where as probably you know - VMworld Europe was organized. I missed the US edition but fortunately I could attend at the European edition which is the biggest...
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What is VM Component Protection (VMCP) introduced with vSphere 6?
I attended at the great session during the VMworld Europe: INF5898 - vSphere High Availability (HA) Best Practices. VMware introduced a new useful feature with vSphere 6.0 - VM Component Protection....
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vCenter Appliance (VCSA) 6.x disk (vmdk) list and purpose.
Recently I have faced an error when I couldn't log in to the vCenter Appliance (VCSA) in my lab using vSphere Client or the Web Client as well. However I could log in to the VAMI interface (as you...
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How to clean up vCenter Server from unused plugins?
Some days ago I decided to clean up some unused or orphaned vCenter plugins. When I checked available plugins on vSphere Client I saw the following list: Sometimes, when we install VMware or 3rd party...
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How to reclaim space on /storage/seat in vCenter Appliance 5.5 or 6.x?
Some days ago I faced a problem with out of space on /storage/seat in vCenter Appliance 6.0 in my lab. This is a disk where some vPostgres data are kept: Tasks, Events or Stats. As I described already,...
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NetBackup Accelerator for NDMP for NetApp Filers - Overview.
NetBackup 7.7.1 introduced some new features and one of them was Accelerator for NDMP for NetApp Filers. Accelerator improves full backup performance by only transferring changed blocks between backups...
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How to convert&migrate VCSA with embedded to an external PSC?
Today I received an email from my reader with question about converting/migrating vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) with Embedded Platform Services Controller to the external PSC. Fortunately, since...
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VMware vCenter Distributed Power Management (DPM) - overview and configuration.
Some weeks ago I decided to use VMware vCenter Distributed Power Management (DPM) in the lab. In this post I will cover the following topics: vCenter Distributed Power Management (DPM) overview and...
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How to create Storage Unit (STU) on NetBackup Advanced Disk?
This post covers how to create Storage Unit on NetBackup Advanced Disk using GUI. In the NetBackup Administration Console, select either NetBackup Management or Media and Device Management. In the...
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How to configure NetBackup LiveUpdate using CIFS or IIS?
NetBackup is an enterprise backup solution. If you have hundreds or thousands clients, you would not like to update those clients manually. Of course, we do not need to update clients asap, however it...
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Enterprise Vault IMAP - invalid input string.
One of my customer wanted to use a new feature of Enterprise Vault 11 - archive access by IMAP. However they faced with a problem as the Metadata Store Build task didn't work correctly - status of the...
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NetBackup Accelerator - design considerations.
NetBackup Accelerator is a powerful feature introduced in NetBackup 7.5 for files. Since NetBackup 7.6 we can use this feature to backup virtual machine in VMware environment and since NetBackup 7.7.1...
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MCSE: Private Cloud: 70-981 (re)-certification exam.
Some weeks ago I received an email from Microsoft certification team that my MCSE: Private Cloud expires 19th of December 2015. Currently, to re-certify (maintain) MCSE: Private Cloud you need to take...
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vCenter is down - impact on VMware infrastructure.
Over the past few months I have seen posts or been asked what happens when vCenter is down. Everybody probably knows that vCenter is a heart of VMware infrastructure installed as Appliance (VCSA) or...
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How to configure NetBackup Access Control (NBAC) ?
As I descirbed some months ago, NetBackup Access Control (NBAC) can be used to limit access to NetBackup more granular. Since NetBackup 7.x. the configuration of NBAC is simplified. NBAC should be...
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NetBackup Copilot for Oracle - Overview.
In December 2015, Veritas released NetBackup 2.7.1 (=7.7.1) for Appliances. There was a small "lag" between normal version of NetBackup and version for Appliances. This version introduces a new feature...
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Microsoft Cluster of Virtual Machines (VM) on VMware vSphere?
In spite of virtualization of servers, it's not seldom when I we can meet Microsoft Cluster (MSCS or WSFC) of Virtual Machines (VMs) running on VMware vSphere. This type of clustering is called guest...
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Veeam Availability Suite v9 - new features and enhancements.
Today Veeam released the latest - version 9 of Availability Suite. There are some new features such as: Direct NFS Access - retrieving VM data directly from file-based (NFS) storage using Veeam’s...
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NetBackup AIR - restore to an original location?
Some days ago, I received a comment on NetBackup AIR Overview post. One of my reader requested to show how to restore data to an original location from another location. As already I mentioned,...
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Welcome Altaro as a sponsor!
Let me welcome and introduce you Altaro as a sponsor! Altaro is a fast-growing developer of easy to use backup solutions for small- to medium-sized businesses, specializing (and currently supporting...
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