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Experiencing metadata corruptions in VMFS volumes is a troubleshooting scenario that consumes a lot of time specially if you can’t access some VMs files anymore and your applications are experiencing outage. Hopefully you have your backups up to date and tested to restore your machines but in some cases you may need to recover those […]
ESXi 6.7 update 2 released in May 2019 adds VMFS6 to the list of supported file systems by the vSphere On-disk Metadata Analyzer (VOMA) to allow you to check and fix issues with VMFS volumes metadata, LVM metadata, and partition table inconsistencies. This means you can save a lot of resources, time and money while […]
Summary Login errors in Veeam Enterprise Manager after updating to version 9.5 update 4 are caused by a bug in mentioned version when vCloud organizations have any uppercase character. This is resolved replacing DLL with name Veeam.Backup.VcdLib.dll with the one provided by Veeam Support.Bug will be fixed on release 9.5 update 5. Symptoms After updating […]
The pktcap-uw tool is an enhanced packet capture and analysis tool that can be used in place of the legacy tcpdump-uw tool. The pktcap-uw tool is included by default in ESXi 5.5 and later versions. It was detected that running a packet capture on ESXi 6.5 hosts will cause a PSOD. This issue is known […]
Quick guide on CommServe command line reports to dump in CSV file usage periods and predictions of usage based on existing data. This and other queries can be implemented on CommServe Web Console for scheduled reports based on needs you can create a dashboard with tiles showing relevant information apart from ones provided for free and […]
OpenManage Enterprise Tech Release is a new hardware management and monitoring console that provides a comprehensive view of the Dell EMC servers, chassis, network switches, and other third-party devices on the enterprise network. It is designed for the next generation of IT Professionals with a focus on simplicity, automation, and unification of data center management. […]
This article provides procedures to import a wildcard certificate to VMware vCloud Director. Each vCloud Director server requires two SSL certificates, one for the HTTP service and one for the console proxy service, in a Java keystore file. You can use certificates signed by a trusted certification authority, or self-signed certificates. Signed certificates provide the […]
Integrating with vCenter Server for backups and restores Following our previous post “Get started with Acronis Cloud” Backup” we are now ready to backup VMs from our source site and restore them on different location running vSphere infrastructure. Privileges for VM Backup and Recovery on vCenter Server These are the privileges a vCenter Server user […]
Recently BakingClouds received an invitation to trial Acronis Cloud Backup so here we go on testing what Acronis Cloud is offering for service providers and customers. Acronis offers backups and restore (BaaS) with a self-service portal where you login, download the agent for your server or application to backup, register the agent with your Acronis […]
After multiple changes, upgrades and re-installs of my LAB severs and cloud POC some of my templates hosted externally were gone so decided to invest some time to create a new template using latest Centos 7 minimal version. During the installation phase trying to use security profiles to put in place some useful configurations I […]