PowerShell Command History
This is a little outside what I normally is writing about, but I think this is an important message for those there are using PowerShell, this also includes VMware PowerCLI, and other PowerShell extensions. PowerShell v5 (included in Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016) by default saves the last 4096 command used in Powershell, including any username/password,…
Windows 2008 R2 SP1 and Windows 7 SP1 with VMXNET3 lost NIC
Microsoft has released new patch for Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 and Windows 7 SP1, on the March 13th 2018. I some cases this patch will VM’s running these OS, loss there VMXNET3 nic, at get a new one, using DHCP. VMware has published a Blog about the problem, and in this blog there is a referance…
Veeam has released Management Pack 8.0 Update 5
Veeam has released Management Pack 8.0 Update 5 for Microsoft SCOM. What's new: Support for Ops Mgr and SCVMM 1801 Veeam MP supports Microsoft System Center Operation Manager 1801 and System Center Virtual Machine Manager 1801. Support for Windows Server 1709 Hyper-V Veeam MP supports Windows Server 1709 Hyper-V. Windows Server 1709 Hyper-V hosts and clusters…
New Veeam agent for Microsoft and Linux Released
Veeam has released new Agent for Microsoft Windows 2.1 and Agent for Linux 2.0. you can finde the release notes for this here: Agent for Microsoft Windows 2.1: https://www.veeam.com/veeam_agent_windows_2_1_release_notes_rn.pdf Agent for Linux 2.0: https://www.veeam.com/veeam_agent_linux_2_0_release_notes_rn.pdf
Veeam Backup & Replication 9.5 update 3 Released.
Veeam has released the much awaited update 3 for Veeam Backup & Replication 9.5. New features Built-in agent management. Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows and Veeam Agent for Linux can now be deployed and managed directly from the Veeam Backup & Replication console, adding support for physical and cloud workloads protection. Maintain complete control of data protection…
Matching Windows Disks to VMware VMDK Files
I have been looking for this for at long time and there are some script on, VMware forums and other places, that can do this, but I was satisfied with them, since they did not give me all the information i needed. So began to peace some of them tougher to a new one, And this…
Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows 2.0 (Public BETA)
You can now sign up for the Public Beta of the Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows 2.0. System requirements Hardware CPU: x86-64 processor architecture. Memory: 2 GB RAM. Disk Space: 150 MB for product installation. Network: 1 Mbps or faster. High latency and reasonably unstable WAN links are supported. System firmware: BIOS or UEFI. Drive encryption:…
Veeam has release Update 1 for B&R, One and Office 365
Veeam has released 3 updates today. Veeam Backup and Replication 9.5 Update 1 This gives support for vSphere 6.5, and have other fixes. Solution Platform support Dell EMC Data Domain OS 6.0, including synthetic full backup performances optimizations, backup retention and health check reliability improvements. HPE 3PAR 3.2.2 MU3, including multiple API interaction improvements for…
vSphere 6.5 Backup Interoperability
We are still waiting for the backup vendors to support vSphere 6.5. At the moment VMware VDP 6.1.3 and Veritas Backup Exec 16 has support. Veritas Backup Exec 16 does not support vSAN 6.5 (see the Software Compatibility list here: https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/article.000115689) Veritas NetBackup 7.7.3 has a limited support, see here. https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/article.000116592 Veeam B&R 9.5 Update 1 will have support and is…
Veeam B&R restore SQL items and Firewall
I have a customer with some SQL servers on a DMZ, that they need to restore databases to, and we looked at the documentation for which ports to open. This is the documentation for Veeam B&R 9.0, and we found the ports and it worked fine, until we had to restore to an SQL instance…