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rildo.giroux
rildo.girouxNew Here
posted in Blogs and Podcasts
VMCA 2022 - Finally passed after 3 try's

Hi Guy’s The path to success is rarely linear; it often winds through setbacks, challenges, and moments of doubt. My journey through the VMCA (Veeam Certified Architect) exam epitomizes this truth, culminating in a well-earned victory with a score of 79%. It's a story of resilience, growth, and the satisfaction that comes from persevering against the odds.Adding a unique layer to my journey is the fact that I have spent the last seven years dedicated to working with Veeam, a prominent player in the realm of data protection and management. This experience has given me an extensive and intimate understanding of the intricacies of data backup, recovery, and virtualization management.The VMCA exam was no small feat during my first two attempts, with scores of 55% and 64% respectively. Yet, each outcome held within it a lesson, a piece of the puzzle that would eventually lead me to success. These results could have deterred me, leading to discouragement and abandonment, but they had the opp

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Scott
1 year ago
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mohammed Kamy KommunikasjonComes here often
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Hyper-v VMs Warning Failed to connect to GCP plug-in: Failed to login to platform service:

Hi  have currently this warning for 3 consecutive days. the backup jobs ara all success but I getthis warning message . can any one help me resolve thisWarning message:>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>8/31/2023 10:00:51 AM Warning Failed to connect to GCP plug-in: Failed to login to platform service: No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it xx.xx.xx.10x:9xxThnanks in advance>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>»  

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1 year ago
Link State
Link StateVeeam Legend
posted in Blogs and Podcasts
[Guide] Active Directory Veeam Replica migration experience

I want to share my experience of an Active directory migration through the VB Replication software related to an Active directory environment 2012 R2 - forest and domain functional level 2012 R2.The customer asked me to migrate 3 Domain controllers from an old  VMware 5.5 to the new VMware 6.5 infrastructure for a technological refresh.Given that the best solution from Microsoft is to create new VMs and promote them Domain Controllers and transfer FSMO roles.That said, there are scenarios like mine, where this type of approach was not possible as it was mandatory to maintain the same FQDN and IP address due to application configuration problems.Microsoft advised against demoting and promoting a DC with a different OS but with the same FQDN and IP, even if my environment was relatively small 3 DC one forest \ domain and not complex it could be done with the metadata cleanup procedure but the customer did not give the approval. So I have adopted the solution of VM replica. Scenario -----

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Iams3le
1 year ago
Roy Adiel
Roy AdielComes here often
posted in Blogs and Podcasts
AWS Deprecates TLS 1.0/1.1

Due to multiple security vulnerabilities, many companies, including AWS, have deprecated TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1.AWS Security Blog - TLS 1.2 to become the minimum TLS protocol level for all AWS API endpoints This could lead to customers not being able to backup into a repository based on AWS S3 Bucket.Veeam KB article was created to show the the error in VBR to help customers remediate this issue: https://www.veeam.com/kb4490  

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wesmrt
1 year ago
olivier.rossi
olivier.rossiVeeam MVP
posted in Blogs and Podcasts
SOBR: Veeam Capacity Tier – Calculations and Considerations (in v11)

IntroductionSOBR is a logical construct allowing a backup administrator to group storage extents together to form a multi-tier storage "pool" to ease the management of backups.The Performance Tier holds the "operational restore window" parts of the backups on-premises, typically on block or file-based storage, while both the Capacity and Archive Tiers allow expansions to Object Storage.The Capacity tier offers two types of offload operations:Copy Move (after x days).Note: You can combine both offload operations.When offloading backups to the Capacity Tier, the “.VBK” or “.VIB” shell is cracked open. Veeam backup Meta-Data and Data bits become Objects stored onto the Capacity Tier via PUT operations.Note: It is safe to assume that 99% of all objects created are backup Data bits, the rest is backup Meta-Data.With most public cloud providers, API operations are not free.If you are considering an "on-premises" Object Storage solution, be mindful of vendor-specific limitations in their abil

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Scott
1 year ago
Geoff Burke
Geoff BurkeVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard
posted in Blogs and Podcasts
AI generated tutorial, complete and utter fail! Veeam keep your trainers!! :)

Hi Folks, I was just forced to watch for the first time an AI generated tutorial/presentation. This was not Veeam training but I decided to send out this feedback just in case anyone at Veeam is thinking about jumping on this bandwagon.All of this hype about Chat/AI etc crashed miserably in my eyes after watching this content. The AI generated lady doing the tutorial had less personality and sincerity than RD2 in Star wars (reminder RD2 could only beep and not speak). The phoney AI generated smile would have been better placed in the film Aliens on the monsters that emerged from people’s stomachs.Then there were the pronunciation errors. Living in Toronto I hear all sorts of different pronunciations in English but they normally add some spice to the discussion. Italian, French, Chinese etc native speakers all have different pronunciations and if anything they add flavour to the conversation. Machine AI however is horrendous. It will go along for a bit perfectly but then blurt out somet

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TylerJurgens
1 year ago
Nico Losschaert
Nico LosschaertVeeam Legend
posted in Blogs and Podcasts
How to archive a backup of a VM?

Hi,In this topic I want to highlight the possibilities to archive a backup for a VM before you want to delete or decommision.Every company that uses VMs has to deal with deleting existing VMs, replacing them with new VMs because of migrating the application running on the VM, migrating because of using a new OS on the VM, …A lot of reasons why existing VMs will soon or later will be deleted or replaced by new ones. What do you want to do as a proper engineer before deleting the old VM? → Of course, you first want to take a backup before deleting the VM.I often had the situation where the customer needs something being restored/recovered of the deleted VM 😊Personally the best way for a VM that will be deleted, is having an independent full backup. Is that possible with Veeam 🤣? Sure, in my opinion, there are 2 easy ways to do that.Using VeeamZIPIf the VM is still available on your hypervisor, the easiest way is to use VeeamZIP.It creates an independent full backup (.VBK file), which y

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Nico Losschaert
1 year ago
dloseke
dlosekeVeeam Legend
posted in Blogs and Podcasts
Unable to Create Azure Active Directory Application when setting up Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 Restore Portal

Found a perplexing issue when I was setting up VB365 the other day.  I was attempting to set up the Restore Portal in my multitenant environment using Jorge’s guide (for v6 mind you, but close enough) but when I was attempting to create the Azure AD application, I was receiving a pretty non-descript error.Veeam Error:  “Failed to create Azure Active Directory application.” A bit of googling didn’t turn up much.  After a lot of troubleshooting, I did manage to get an error when attempting to use an existing Application ID that I had renamed/repurposed about an invalid name but wrote it off because it was a strange possible workaround.  I thought that perhaps it was a certificate issue, something wrong with the port I was using, REST API settings, etc.So, like any reasonable person, I created a support ticket and gathered logs.  Props to support for isolating the issue on first try quickly with the logs provided.  And indeed, Azure AD was blocking the application due to an invalid name. 

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coolsport00
1 year ago
marco_s
marco_sVeeam Legend
published in Blogs and Podcasts
Microsoft 365 modern authentication for VBR and VBO365 server

Good morning community!I'd like to share with you a configuration I've come across these days: setting up notifications with Microsoft 365 modern authentication for VBR and VBO365 server. DOCUMENTATIONThe official links from Veeam Helpcenter are:https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backup/vsphere/general_email_notifications.html?ver=120 https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/vbo365/guide/m365_acc.html?ver=70 VEEAM CONSOLE CONFIGURATIONConfiguration is quite simple for both: the menu is always in the same tab "email settings" for VBR and "notification" for VBO 365.  AZURE AD APPLICATIONThe biggest difference from accounts with basic authentication is that in order for Veeam to send email on behalf of a Microsoft 365 account, it is necessary to use an Azure AD application registered on the Azure Portal.You can use an application preinstalled by Veeam, or register a new one.In my case I followed the second way, and the official links from Veeam Helpcenter and from Microsoft are:https://helpcenter

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1 year ago
MicoolPaul
MicoolPaul
posted in Blogs and Podcasts
Veeam B&R: Performance Impact of Pending Tasks

Alt Text: Blog Post Title on colourful backgroundTell me if you’ve seen this situation before. You’ve got some servers & applications that need protecting. You create your backup jobs as necessary, there’s different backup jobs for your various application-integration requirements, backup frequencies, and retention requirements, it’s starting to sprawl. Inevitably there’s some job scheduling overlap. Backup jobs are waiting for other backup jobs to complete, the running tasks section of your Veeam Backup & Replication Server is ticking upwards, no biggie right? It’ll clear down eventually! Well… Let’s explore that shall we? Background/Test Scenario I wanted to see just how much having multiple running jobs would impact VBR, when those jobs were all in a pending state, barring one. I then wanted to compare this impact vs scheduling backup jobs within chains.I created a Windows VM, installed the OS, then powered it down, so I’d have a static test VM to backup. I configured my bac

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Scott
1 year ago
TylerJurgens
TylerJurgensVeeam Legend
posted in Blogs and Podcasts
Gone are the days of "If its not broken, don't fix it"

I’ve been in IT my entire adult life. There is generally two mantras to IT. “If its not broken, don’t fix it.” “Update often.” “If its not broken, don’t fix it.”You know the people I’m talking about. “My uptime on this system is 1287 days! It is rock solid!”I get it. Its great to have a system you can rely on. Stability and system uptime is the holy grail. You want your systems to be 100% available because that means you can focus your time on more important tasks than break/fix.  These people are also a security expert’s nightmare. Vulnerabilities get exposed and new exploits are created regularly. Its not enough to protect your perimeter anymore, you have to protect every aspect of your environment.  This mantra has outlived its usefulness. Uptime of 1287 days on a system is no longer a badge of honour, its downright scary. We’re not talking highly available services here where you can take individual components down to patch them, we’re talking those individual components themselves

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TylerJurgens
1 year ago
wesmrt
wesmrtVeeam MVP
published in Blogs and Podcasts
Veeam BR - Testing vSphere Backups with SureBackup

Hello everyone!In this post, I will explain how to utilize one of the key features of Veeam Backup & Replication, which is the ability to test the integrity of created backups. Introduction Creating the Virtual Lab Creating the Application Group Creating the SureBackup Job Testing the SureBackup Job Introduction SureBackup uses created backups to initiate VMs in an isolated environment within the hypervisor and then perform tests like heartbeat, ping, and application validation using scripts. It's a fantastic functionality to ensure that your backups are intact when needed.SureBackup utilizes the following components:Application Group - Group of VMs to be tested together. With the Application Group, we can define the startup order of VMs and set tests for each of them. Virtual Lab - The Virtual Lab is an appliance created by Veeam B&R on the hypervisor to act as the gateway of the isolated network that will be created. SureBackup job - The SureBackup job where you can schedule

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Iams3le
1 year ago
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EdxHComes here often
posted in Blogs and Podcasts
Veeam APIs and Python

Hi all, Everyone that knows me knows that I am a massive Python geek and data science nerd outside of being a full time nerd. Anyway I’ve been working on a YouTube series on using the Veeam API with Python showing the long way and the easy way to connect, discover, manipulate and visualize data from the APIs.I will be doing deep dives later in the series as well as creating interesting apps and widgets with one of Python’s many libraries. I’ll also be branching off into other languages like C# and Golang overtime.The GitHub repo of all the Jupyter notebooks I am using in the series can be found here:https://github.com/shapedthought/veeam-api-and-python-youtube If you have any suggestions for reports or visualisations of data please let me know and I’ll try work them into the series.

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1 year ago
Chris.Childerhose
Chris.ChilderhoseVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard
posted in Blogs and Podcasts
Veeam Legend Renewal for 2023

I was lucky enough to be renewed in the first intake of 2023 Legends this year and completed a blog post about it.  Link to my blog as well - https://just-virtualization.tech/veeam-legends-program-renewed-for-2023 Veeam Legend 2023 It is official; I have been awarded Veeam Legends 2023 for the 2nd year. I received a great surprise in my email from Madalina Cristil (@MadiCristil), the manager of the Veeam Community Legends program, Rick Vanover (@rickvanover), Safiya Mohamed (@safiya), and Nikola Pejkova (@NikolaPejkova) I was renewed into the 2023 first intake. You can find out about the Veeam Legends program on the Community Hub here - Veeam Community Hub. It has been a great first year in the Legends program, and I was happy to contribute to helping the community. I look forward to another year and meeting many of the Legends in person at the #Veeam100 event in October. There are some great benefits to being a Legend - As a part of Veeam Legends, you’ll be eligible for unique content

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TylerJurgens
1 year ago
haslund
haslundMr. VMCE
posted in Blogs and Podcasts
How to size for NAS/File share backups?

Sizing for NAS/file share backup can appear difficult initially, but with the help of the unofficial NAS Calculator by Hal Yaman it definitely will be a bit easier.As you can see from the screenshot below you need to know roughly how much source data in TB your file share(s) contain, how many files and directories. In case you are wondering what is primary vs secondary repository? Primary is for your short term retention (newest version) and secondary is for long term retention (older versions than newest).The user guide has some good info on the secondary copy settings.Once you have filled all out, just click the Calculate button to get full sizing for all components:Cache repository File Proxy Primary repository Secondary RepositoryHope this was useful and please do post any questions or comments.

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Scott
1 year ago
Geoff Burke
Geoff BurkeVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard
posted in Blogs and Podcasts
Vacations.. but we are family? A story of IT viruses and pandemics (not in code but in word)

Hi Folks, Being Monday I am in a bad mood and depressed about existence, questioning the meaning of life 🤣. Don’t worry it gets better by Wednesday and all cured by Friday. I have worked in IT for many years and vacations have always been an interesting intellectual study of the managerial species. I think it soon started after the year 2000. Y2K did not blow up the world so Managers everywhere decided that their many sins had gone unpunished. I can’t remember the first Manager who tried the “we are all just like family line” with me. Right away I knew that there was some horrible task that he wanted me to do during my vacation but did not want to pay more for it. He must have figured that a computer nerd social loser like myself had no friends and that my family were very happy that I was thousands of miles away. This was though back in the days before Twitter boss type sycophant  behaviour and “worship the boss for points” game, so I calmly answered that we could not be family genet

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Scott
1 year ago
MicoolPaul
MicoolPaul
posted in Blogs and Podcasts
Veeam & File Shares: Licensing & Feature Comparison

ALT TEXT: Banner with blog post title “Veeam & File Shares: Licensing & Feature Comparison” Hi!Today we’re going to talk about file shares and how to protect them. We’ll also look at how Veeam handles the various backup options available within the Veeam Universal License.File shares can take many forms, so we’re going to look at the following:A Physical/Virtual Server A NAS/SAN/Storage Device with File Share capabilities Azure Files Amazon EFS (Elastic File Systems) Physical & Virtual Servers Before Veeam introduced native file-share support for Veeam Backup & Replication, you could still backup physical or virtual servers. This was achieved via native hypervisor integrations, or the use of the Veeam Agent, on supported operating systems.When protecting servers that provide file shares from a traditional Windows/Linux/UNIX operating system, we license each server, without many considerations to the file shares themselves.There are a few considerations still to talk abo

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Scott
1 year ago
Michael Melter
Michael MelterVeeam Legend
posted in Blogs and Podcasts
Entire VM restore - Veeam hallucinating hard disks - solved

I just had a situation in a customer environment where the customer complained that a restored VM had more disks than the one that was backed up before (6 instead of 5 for a SQL Server VM).The recovery was done using Entire VM Restore - User Guide for VMware vSphere (veeam.com).When restoring to the original location, Veeam prompts you that the original VM will be deleted first:At first, I though this was related to the user that Veeam uses to access vCenter no having the appropriate rights. For example, the user does not have permissions to delete the VM.But then I noticed that the additional disk to be 200GB in size. The old state the we wanted to restore only had 2x100, 2x300 and 1x500. So where did the 200GB disk come from?It turns out that the size of this disk was adjusted by the VMware team a few weeks ago (100 → 200). We wanted to restore from an older state with the 100GB still there. Could this be the reason? Does VBR leave resized disks being alone while recovering and adds

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Scott
1 year ago
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Tiko RockNew Here
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Unable to process server: backup agent is missing

i am facing issue with adding linux server to backup, bakcup fail after 3 minutes with error Unable to process server: backup agent is missing. veeam v12do we miss anything else, i have added the server through job backup with the wizard and added the root user.but it failed any suggestions please. 

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Chris.Childerhose
1 year ago
Link State
Link StateVeeam Legend
posted in Blogs and Podcasts
[GUIDE] How to migrate VBR 12 Enterprise Manager

Hello, everyone.I am posting the guide for those who need to migrate their Enterprise Manager for various reasons.I had the need to migrate EM to consolidate VMs.The MSSQL database is a dedicated VM.KB1889: How to migrate Veeam Backup & Replication or Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager      Export all Keysets from the old Backup Enterprise Manager web console. Take note of which keyset was Active.  Uninstall Backup Enterprise Manager from the old server. Install Backup Enterprise Manager on the new server. During the installation of Backup Enterprise Manager, do the following:If presented with the Default Configuration step of the installer, check the box labeled "Let me specify different settings"For the Service Account Credentials step, provide an account with the appropriate permissions to the SQL Instance where the VeeamBackupReporting database is located.On the SQL Server Instance step, choose the option to "Use existing instance of SQL Server" and specify the SQL Server and Inst

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Iams3le
1 year ago
Geoff Burke
Geoff BurkeVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard
posted in Blogs and Podcasts
CKA Study group

Hi Folks,If anyone is preparing for the CKA certification feel free to share or ask me any questions. My 3 years is up and I need to redo the exam as well. I am very lucky to have been asked to lead with fellow Kodekloud Ambassador Nitish Kumar  https://www.linkedin.com/in/nitishkumar06/ a closed CKA study group over the next few Months on Kodekloud but am more than happy to try and help folks here as well. Group study makes everyone stronger! So much for taking a bit of rest in the summer. Other upcoming events and tasks, I got talked into taking part in the Tanzu hackathon which hopefully won’t be too embarrassing since I don’t feel I know Tanzu well enough to hack it :). On August 31 I will be taking part in an online panel discussion with about Kubernetes and Tanzu data protection. The Veeam contingent there is going to be very strong as also present will be @michaelcade and @HunterLAFR . In fact if I am not mistaken @HunterLAFR is the organizer even!!  As for videos I hopefully wi

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HunterLAFR
1 year ago
Geoff Burke
Geoff BurkeVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard
asked in Blogs and Podcasts
Anyone moved an M365 Repo from one drive to another on block storage?

Hi folks,My wanderings in the wonderful continue. I need to move an M365 repo from a REFS drive (as far as I know this is not good, NTFS is the best practice) to a new drive. I have read on the forums that the Move-VBOEntityData powershell is NOT the way to go. Instead this is the procedure: 1. Disable all backup jobs related to the repository you want to move.2. Stop all the Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 services before moving any data.3. Copy the backup repository data to the backup repository location on the new repository location (using robocopy for example).4. Start the Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 services.5. Add the new repository with the moved data.6. Open backup job settings and specify to use the new repository Any comments or advice from folks who have been through this. I would like to avoid any pain since I had a wisdom tooth pulled this week and have enough already :)  cheers 

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HangTen416
1 year ago
regnor
regnorVeeam MVP
posted in Blogs and Podcasts
Sysadmin story: Test your backups!

My Sysadmin story is rather old, from my own beginnings in IT. It’s not directly Veeam related but the message is valuable for every backup administrator.The outageThere’s been a certain Linux VM which was running a very critical software for that company. Software updates were done by the vendor itself so there wasn’t much to take care of. Of course, besides including it in the backup process.At some point there was an outage in the datacenter which shutdown all virtual machines. After the power had been restored, all virtual machines were started again without any issues; at least almost without any issues.The Linux VM didn’t come up and stayed at the boot screen without any progress. After a bit of debugging without a solution, we decided to restore the VM as it was in the morning and no changes occurred since the nightly backup.Unfortunately, the restored VM had just the same problem and refused from booting up. And also the 2 day old restore point behaved the same.At that point we

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Nico Losschaert
1 year ago
HunterLAFR
HunterLAFRVeeam Legend
posted in Blogs and Podcasts
Sysadmin Story: Horror Story!

Hi There!I've shared this story in my VUG Group, Spain,But I wanted to translate it to English and share it with all of you,It’s a Personal experience, the latest I’ve got in Prod before changing my role,and now re-publishing it for the Sysadmin month. Hi,I want to share with you my latest experience as a IT Infrastructure responsible, just a week before moving into a new company, also in a new role / position. It was August 10th 2022, enjoying my summer holidays before moving into a new company, celebrating my 37th Birthday at the Swimming pool area with my family, and surprise, my phone dings, and I just had a quick look and this came up on the screen:“We’ve got a Virus in our Systems” I felt goosebumps all over my body, I left my pint of beer (Yes, I love beer) on the table, and I addressed my wife and told he, “I gotta go” ransom! I change my clothes, from my comfortable swimming suite to jeans and a t-shirt, went to the office to get a better understanding of what was going on, an

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dloseke
1 year ago
Nico Losschaert
Nico LosschaertVeeam Legend
posted in Blogs and Podcasts
SysAdmin Story : a Veeam feature saved a school

I work already more than 6 years at my current company as a system consultant specialized in backup, DR, hypervisors and storage but at the first place being the Veeam Expert 🤣.In those 6 years I have seen a lot, but one of the things I will never forget, is a story that I want to share with you 🤗. When :  It happened more than 2 years ago Who :  It happened to a customer of us, a secondary school What happened :  They were using multiple standalone Hyper-V hosts with local storage.They all were using RAID5 on the data-volume (where the .VHDX files = HyperV virtual hard-disks are located) of their hyper-v hostsAs you know : in a RAID5 setup, only 1 disk may fail...On their most critical Hyper-V host 2 disks were stuck, so the volume was broken and all data was lost on that hyper-v server!On that server a couple of virtual machines were running including one of their most important server : their big file-server!That was not the only issue : the hyper-v host was not in warranty anymor

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Scott
1 year ago

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