I had a situation earlier this week where the VMware SDK/API service was being reported as offline. I was triggered by some failed backup jobs which made me check to see what could be causing the problem. Logging into the VCSA Management UI, I was presented with the following warning in the Health Status. File […] Read More
Had a situation today whereI needed to update the license for one of my Veeam Enterprise Manager isntances due to using ones from previous internal builds. My main Veeam Backup & Replication server that was connect to the Enterprise Manager instance already had a new license applied. When I went to log into the Enterprise […] Read More
During the first plan execution of a new VM based on a Windows Server Core VM Template, my Terraform plan timed out on Guest Customizations. The same plan had worked without issue previously with an existing Windows Template, so I was a little confused as to what had gone wrong. When I checked the console […] Read More
I had a really strange situation pop up in one of my lab environments over the weekend. vSAN Health was reporting that one of the hosts had lost networking connectivity to the rest of the cluster. This is something i’ve seen intermittently at times so waited for the condition to clear up. When it didn’t […] Read More
This week Veeam dropped version 3.0 of Backup for Microsoft Office 365, which represents another significant update to the SaaS backup platform and builds on the previous 2.0 and 1.5 releases. For a quick look at some of the highlights, head to my fellow Technologist, Niels Engelen blog post for an overview. Like many out […] Read More
A question came up in the Veeam Forums this week about how you would backup the contents of a Content Library. As a refresher, content libraries are container objects for VM templates, vApp templates, and other types of files. Administrators can use the templates in the library to deploy virtual machines and vApps via vCenter. […] Read More
I’m currently going through the process of acquiring a new Let’s Encrypt free SSL Certificate against a new domain I registered. For a great overview of what Let’s Encrypt is and what is can do for you, head over to Luca Dell’Oca’s blog here. I was following Luca’s instructions for getting the new domain authorised […] Read More
A few weeks ago I wrote about using iSCSI as a backup repository target. While still running this POC in my environment I came across an error in the vSAN Health Checker stating the vSAN iSCSI target service was in a Failed state. Drilling down into the vSAN Health check tree I could see a […] Read More
vCloud Director 9.0, released last week has a bunch of new enhancements and a lot of those are focused around it’s integration with NSX. Tom Fojta has a what’s new page on the go with a lot of the new features being explained. One of his first posts just after the GA was around the […] Read More
I originally came across the issue of slow storage performance with the native vmw_ahci driver that comes bundled with ESXi 6.5 just as I was first playing with my SuperMicro SYS-5028D-TN4T in my homelab. After publishing a couple of posts about the workaround shortly afterwards the issue become quiet prevalent in the community and the post […] Read More