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VCB and identical LUN id’s
I get this question a lot:”Does the VMware Consolidated Backup proxy host need to have the same LUNs with the same ID’s presented?”. VMware Consolidated Backup needed to have identical LUN ID’s to be...
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VCB and multipathing
VMware just changed their VCB multipathing support. Before the KB article stated “Powerpath and other multipathing software.” The KB article has been changed and contains specific version of Powerpath...
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VM Template best practices (Linux)
I was just reading up on my Google Reader. A lot of information been dropped over the last couple of days and more and more people are getting active on the VMware blogoshere. One of the articles that...
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Veeam Backup 3.0 supports ESXi, including free version!
Veeam just released Backup 3.0 with ESXi(including the Free version) support: In addition to the ESXi backup through VCB that was introduced with version 2.0, Veeam Backup 3.0 now supports ESXi backup...
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VCB and Diskeeper
I just noticed this new KB article: Diskeeper is a 3rd party defragmentation product that has the ability to defragment unmounted NTFS volumes that are presented to the VMware Consolidated Backup...
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VCB Management Console 1.0.6 Beta
@lamw pointed me out via twitter to the “diy” VCB Management Console. The “vcbMC” is a front end for scheduling and creating backup jobs based on VMware Consolidated Backup. As “athlon_crazy” points...
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VMware Data Recovery 1.0.1 released!
Although the VMware download section has not been updated VMware Data Recovery 1.0.1 has been officially released. Click on VMware Data Recovery 1.0 in the download section and you will be presented...
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in the ghetto….
William Lam just updated two of his most popular scripts. If you haven’t looked at them yet, make sure you do as they are worth it. ghettoVCB(g2) enables the backup of virtual machines residing on...
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Using the VSS Driver for backups?
I received an email from one of my readers, Kevin, about using the VSS Driver for Backups. As of 3.5 Update 2 this feature has been introduced. I knew that there was a catch to using the VSS Driver...
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Changes to Snapshot mechanism “Delete All”
Don’t know if anyone noticed it or not but with the latest set of patches VMware changed the “Delete All” mechanism that is part of the Snapshot feature. I wrote multiple articles about the “Delete...
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