In my previous post I showed how to install automaticaly a virtual machine with pfSense. The automation I reached was around 90%, as I didn’t know how to automate the installation of the software. Thanks to Michael Zenzmaier who suggested me the Set-VMKeystrokes function created by William Lam I was able to also automate the installation. This solution is also a great example to automate every situation where we need to send keystrokes to a vSphere VM.
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Am I doing backups of all my VMs? 2016 Edition
In 2012 I published a post with a Powershell script to be able to check all the available VM’s in a given vSphere environment, and verify which ones were protected by Veeam Backup & Replication. Time to update the script to make it work with the latest versions of the two software.
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How can you test 1000 VMs with Veeam SureBackup?
If you have a large environment that is constantly changinh, you may want some automation to test VMs every day with Veeam SureBackup. Here’s a solution to do so.
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Can you clone a VM replicated by Veeam?
Veeam Backup & Replication has always had since its first version the possibility to replicate VMs, together with the backup capabilities. Once a VM is replicated in a secondary site, it could become a great resource for additional activities: from automated recovery tests (called SureReplica in Veeam) to become also the source for cloning activities. Data are already locally saved, there is no need to retrieve anything else from the source site, so any operation is quick an easy. Are there any informations we should be aware of in doing these operations? Let’s find it out.
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Restore a single VMDK using Veeam Instant VM Recovery
Instant VM Recovery is one of the coolest feature of Veeam Backup & Replication. Regardless of the size of a VM, it allows to have it back in production and running in few minutes, because it’s not actually copied back into the production datastore, but directly executed from a backup file. It’s main use is to restore completely broken or lost VMs, but what if you want to restore a single VMDK, maybe because the original VM is fine and you only need one of its virtual disks? usually, a disk restore would require a complete binary restore into the production datastore, and if the disk is quite large it can take some time. What if you would be able to use Instant VM Recovery also for a single VMDK, instead of having to remove the old VM and swap it with the new one?
Non salvate i backup delle VM nella stessa SAN che li ospita!
Come avrebbe detto il dottor Egon Spengler del film Ghostbusters, “Incrociare i flussi è male” 🙂 Mi capita ogni tanto di discutere con alcuni clienti, che pensano di poter salvare i backup delle loro virtual machine all’interno della stessa SAN dove vengono regolarmente eseguite. Se nel passato l’uso di piattaforme…
Amazon AWS Export and Cloud Providers interoperability
Few days ago, Amazon Web Services launched a new service called VM Export Service: now you can export a VM outside of Amazon towards your favorite HyperVisor: The service can export Windows Server 2003 (R2) and Windows Server 2008 EC2 instances to VMware ESX-compatible VMDK, Microsoft Hyper-V VHD or Citrix…
Amazon AWS Export e l’interoperabilità dei Cloud Providers
E’ notizia di pochi giorni fa di una nuova funzione introdotta da Amazon Web Services: tramite VM Export Service ora non solo è possibile importare una virtual machine “verso” Amazon, ma è possibile anche “esportarla” da Amazon. Ecco il comunicato ufficiale: The service can export Windows Server 2003 (R2) and…