I’ve done some work in testing the performance and mitigation of Meltdown and Spectre on the VMWare platform. In summary I can confirm that even when patching the hypervisor host, it does not mitigate or automatically protect Guest VMs. The
Restoring a Veeam Agent 2.0 Backup to VM for Disaster Recovery
You are backing up your last physical servers using the latest Veeam Agent 2.0. You are storing backups offsite in the cloud using Veeam Cloud Connect to your favorite service provider….
The disaster strikes. Your server vanishes in a puff of smoke. You need to restore, restore quickly. But how?
You know your data is safe in the cloud, but how to get it back?
One liner VMware PowerCLI snippets
A collection of one liners that get/set useful information from vCenter via PowerCLI. For use when the the UI is just way to slow.
Veeam direct from SAN
Using HP StoreVirtual with Veeam 9. http://www.jpaul.me/2010/08/the-mission-manual-part-1-veeam-b-r-direct-san-backups/ http://www.virtualtothecore.com/en/test-directsan-backups-without-physical-veeam-server/
Upgrading VMWare VCSA to Update 1B via the web interface (VAMI)
Upgrading VMWare VCSA to Update 1B via the web interface (VAMI) Log in on port 5480. That’s all fine select update and press go Stops at 70% It’s in the release notes, but check the logs and likely that it’s