Storage, Virtualisation and Datacentre Ramblings
Today Veeam released the beta of v1.5 for Veeam Backup for Office 365. Here is a quick look at Veeam's new Office 365 protection software There appears to be no ability to in place upgrade from Veeam Backup for Office 365 V1.0 After uninstalling this version, i then re-attempted the installation. I had intended to... Continue Reading →
Whilst attempting to upgrade a series of VMware ESXi hosts i ran into a small issues with regards to the VIB version installed. Below is our scenario VMware vSphere ESXi 5.0 upgrading to ESXi 6.0 Cisco Nexus 1010v VDS The error i was receiving was: 'the upgrade contains the following set of conflicting vibs cisco... Continue Reading →
I've been privileged enough to get my hands on the RC version of Veeam Availability Console, or VAC as its more commonly known. The build number of this version is 2.0.1.983. What is Veeam Availability Console? VAC is the new iteration of Veeam Managed Backup Portal which is available to Veeam Certified Service Providers. VAC provides the following features:... Continue Reading →
After installing a new NetApp FAS2650 recently, a bug was observed which was causing one of the nodes to panic, and restart to the LOADER A prompt. After engaging with NetApp support, the following bug was found A PCI NMI error triggers from QLogic 16Gb FC or 10 GbE Converged Network Adapter (CNA) ports on... Continue Reading →
Recently i went through a process of upgrading a VMware environment that utilised the Nexus 1010v Virtual Distributed Switches. The automatic upgrade that can be performed from the 1010v failed due to an issue on the VMware ESXi hosts. This was troubleshooted and identified as a stuck services on the VEM. The following process was... Continue Reading →
