PowerShell Script for Snapshot Backup of Hyper-V >>>Download Off-line <<< How are you backing up your Hyper-V VMs? Agent backups with a legacy backup software like NetBackup. This is good for file by file backups but is a real pain if you need to do a full system with system state restore. Too often system admins [...]
Most new virtual servers are provisioned from templates that have 12 to 20 GB “C” disk so what do you do when you run out of space? Here are three methods which might work for you to increase the size of your virtual server’s disk. Use VMconverter from VMware to clone the VM and change [...]
Does your vCenter flicker when browsing clusters? There could be a problem… Over the last 3 years I’ve seen this happen twice and both times it was not good. Both cases were caused from an HA event that was interrupted, which left multiple VMs registered on more than one host. Fortunately, the VM stays running and the fix does not [...]
VMware ESXTOP Commands for Storage Monitoring Let me just say that lately I’ve been spending way too much time learning about storage. The differences between 3PAR, HP, EMC, Lefthand and NetApp. How to configure, how to carve it, aggregates, LUN, spindle, IOPS, volumes, RAID groups, disk group, parity groups, queue depth, dedupe, replication, snapshot, and so [...]
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