Error 5007 when Backing up VMs to a DataDomain Repository
Brian FarrugiaVeeam Backups were failing on a DELLEMC DataDomain Appliance with error 5007 operation is not implemented.
PSOD: ESXi 6.0 U2 on PowerEdge M710HD with Brocade BR-1741M-k
This post is a walk through on how to resolve an issue were a Brocade 1020/1741M card would cause a PSOD when installing VMware ESXi if the firmware is outdated.…
Using Powershell to validate recommended Updates and Hotfixes for Hyper-V Failover Cluster on Windows 2012 R2
My experience with Hyper-V Failover Clusters has showed me that it is best to install all updates and hotfixes on member hosts to try avoid any major issues. This page…
ESXi host shutdown with APC UPS connected via USB
We had a situation were a customer has a single VMware ESXi 5.5 host connected to an APC UPS and he required that the VMs and host shut down cleanly…
Manual LUN failover with VMware and Powervault MD3620f
A customer has two DELL Powervault MD3620f SAN arrays which included the Remote Replication feature. The Virtual Disks (VDs) hosting the VMware Datastores are replicated across the two SANs, in…
Veeam Hyper-V Replication Error: Failed to find actual VM settings
I have a customer that is replicating his Virtual Machines from a Hyper-V standalone host in the primary site to another host in his DR site. The hosts are installed…
VSS Writers and related services
I have been meaning to keep a record of the VSS writers and associated services to restart. I wrote this post mainly for personal reference.
Installing VMware Integration Plugin may install something else!
A quick post for an issue I had with installing the VMware client integration plugin
Altaro – VSS Provider Override
This week I was evaluating Altaro VM-Backup because I read that they had released version 6, which now supports backing up virtual machine running on the VMware hyper visor. Apart from…
Slow Hyper-V Shared Nothing Live Migration
A customer of ours purchased a new server to create a Hyper-V cluster with the existing server. We decided to create a single node cluster and migrate the vms to…