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29 December

Veeam Backup & Replication v8 Patch 1 released

Written by Marco

Last week Veeam released the first patch voor Veeam Backup & Replication v8. So what is new and fixed? These are the release notes. New Features and Enhancements General Retention policy for replication jobs is now processed concurrently for...

29 October

VMware Template unable to Convert to Virtual Machine

Written by Marco

Sometimes the following will happen: You have a couple of templates and want to update them, you right click the VMware Template and the option to convert to Virtual Machine is grayed out. In this case it was a...

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25 September

How to solve the ‘Cache 1’ Backup Power Source (Capacitors) Status = ‘Charging’. Warning

Written by Marco

One of our HP Storevirtual P4530 server was giving the following Warning. ‘Cache 1’ Backup Power Source (Capacitors) Status = ‘Charging’. WARNING (E01020401) When this error occurs the performance of the Storevirtual Storage environment is terrible. Very high latency’s...

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23 September

Solve the “System logs on ESXi Host are stored on non-persistent storage” message

Written by Marco

Recently I had to install a few VMware ESXi 5.5 host on removable SD cards. After the installation finishes and you connect the first time with the vSphere Client, a message is displayed. This means that the log files...

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17 September

VCAP5-DCA Objective 9.2 – Install ESXi Hosts Using Auto Deploy

Written by Marco

Knowledge Identify Auto Deploy requirements Skills and Abilities Install the Auto Deploy Server Utilize Auto Deploy cmdlets to deploy ESXi hosts Configure Bulk Licensing Provision/Re-provision ESXi hosts using Auto Deploy Configure an Auto Deploy reference host

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11 September

Veeam VMCE7 to VMCE8 upgrade path

Written by Marco

A couple of months ago Veeam launched there VMCE certification. This certification is valid for the Veeam Backup & Replication V7 version. Now that Veeam is almost launching their new flagship version 8 all the VMCE certified engineers should...

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10 September

Solve the Flex-common-lib-x.x.x.swf fail to load error 2032

Written by Marco

When connecting to the vSphere web client with Firefox the following error could occur. RSL https://vcenterserver:9443/vsphere-client/locales/rsl/flex-common-lib-5.5.0.swf failed to load. Error #2032 This happened to me after an upgrade to the latest version of VMware vCenter. A quick search on...

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28 August

VCAP5-DCA Objective 9.1 – Install ESXi hosts with custom settings

Written by Marco

Knowledge Identify custom installation options Identify ESXi Image Builder requirements Skills and Abilities Create/Edit Image Profiles Install/uninstall custom drivers Configure advanced boot loader options Configure kernel options Given a scenario, determine when to customize a configuration

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20 August

Unable to install VMware tools. Error 1606.

Written by Marco

Today I had to virtualize several Windows 2008 R2 Terminal server. After a successful conversion I ran into a problem when installing the VMware Tools. Error 1606. Could not access network location [servername]\[sharename]\desktop\programs\startup\. This error is caused by a...

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12 August

Veeam Backup & Replication setup or upgrade not starting

Written by Marco

A couple of weeks ago I tried to do an upgrade of the Veeam Backup & Replication 6.1 to v7.0. I mounted the fresh downloaded ISO of Veeam v7.0. The splash screen showed, and when I clicked on the...

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