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4 Free Community Veeam Tools and Utilities

Jun 21, 2017 · 7 min read · veeam vra vrealize powershell vsphere ·

I wrote last about attending VeeamON 2017 in New Orleans and you can view that here. As I was deep in various sessions or talking with peers and Veeam folks, several things stuck out in my mind as current gaps or “nice-to-haves” when it comes to Veeam. So after putting pen to paper, I identified four things I thought …

New disk-related features in vSphere 6

Jan 12, 2016 · 5 min read · vsphere ·

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vSphere 6 launched in March of 2015, and since then there have been numerous blogs, presentations, videos, and discussions around the myriad new major features. These are all great improvements to an already solid platform, but there are also lots of un- or minimally-documented features which should be mentioned, …

Fast Backup of vSphere Templates with Veeam

Dec 17, 2015 · 8 min read · veeam vsphere powercli powershell ·

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Most organizations use vSphere templates for a quick way to roll out VMs manually through vCenter, via a clone workflow in vRealize Automation, or something else. Sometimes they’re just base OS with configuration, and sometimes they have complicated applications installed in the case of VDI. Very often, these would be …

Critical CBT Bug in vSphere 6 and Veeam workaround

Nov 16, 2015 · 1 min read · vsphere veeam ·

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There was recently (12 November 2015) another critical backup-related bug published affecting ESXi 6.x and CBT-based backups. Any backup product that leverages VADP (snapshot-based backup processing) is affected by this issue. For customers using Veeam, here is a workaround if it is not possible to downgrade to ESXi …