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The walkthrough of the official #VMCA 2022 practice exam question 36 is ready.Did you have to check the scenario document? Which section did you locate the information inside? 

In this week's episode of #HomelabWednesdays, I show you how to set up and perform a VMware vMotion.Don’t forget to subscribe to get automatic notifications whenever a new video is released. 

The ProblemLast week we were troubleshooting a Veeam Backup & Replication environment, where jobs were slowing down since some time.Looking at the jobs, the backup performance itself was quite good, but the processing of some VMs took longer then expected.The task log of those VMs showed that "Collecting disk files location data" was the cause; for some VMs it lasted 20 minutes, others were waiting for several hours.I first suspected a vCenter problem, as the debug logs showed timeouts and an unsupported API, but after patching and some restarts the problems persisted.The ResolutionDoing some research I’ve stumbled over an R&D forums digest from @Gostev from the year 2018 (Veeam Community Forums digest at that time ). And this one brought us in the right direction as Anton mentioned disk fragmentation as a pausible cause for this issue.I’ve opened up a Veeam support case just to be sure, before approaching the storage team, but later on our customer discovered some left-over s

New LTO-9 for HPE products are available:LTO-9 is available as of January 10, 2022, for the following entry and mid-range HPE StoreEver solutions:HPE StoreEver LTO-9 45000 internal and external standalone tape drives HPE StoreEver MSL 1/8 autoloader HPE StoreEver MSL 2024 tape library HPE StoreEver MSL3040 tape library HPE StoreEver MSL6480 tape library https://community.hpe.com/t5/Around-the-Storage-Block/Great-news-for-the-new-year-LTO-9-comes-to-HPE-StoreEver-tape/ba-p/7157794

The walkthrough of the official #VMCA 2022 practice exam question 35 is ready.Did you have to check the scenario document? Which section did you locate the information inside? 

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Last week I had to troubleshoot a tape (GFS) backup problem. I guess the solution could be interesting for others too.I this environment, synthetic full and tape backup are scheduled at the same day. Full prior to tape jobs. Normally we do see any problems with this configuration. But last week we saw this error in the tape job:12.01.2022 07:04:45 :: Error: Storage ('c97b8ddb-a9dc-4b49-b441-dc1031100a58', CreationTime '08.01.2022 23:15:25') not found As a result the whole job failed. After taking a look at the logs, I found out, the related storage object was a VIB-file of one of the backup jobs, tape job had to bring to tape.[08.01.2022 23:45:07] <01> Info         [CTapeVmTaskBuilder] Storage c97b8ddb-a9dc-4b49-b441-dc1031100a58, mediaset: Weekly, path: servername.vm-187205D2022-01-08T231525_8F3A.vib, creation time: 08.01.2022 23:15:25, is synthetic: True, is synthetic full: TrueAlthough the disk backup job was running at the time, the file was not there at all. Why? The reason

It is #VeeAmazing to such great interest recently in becoming a Veeam Certified Architect. I’ve wanted to share the two primary sections of interest:VMCA Study Guide VMCA Practice examsMany of you have left very kind comments on the video walkthroughs of the official #VMCA 2022 practice exam and requested a full list split by sections on the exam as to more easily study one particular section. I always aim to please, so please find the list below.Some of you may have noticed the text says exams with an s at the end. I fully intend to write an unofficial practice exam for VMCA as well; however, it is a rather large project so it will take some time before it will be ready.I will continue to produce more study materials and include them in the study guide link above so that it is more easily located in a single location.Walkthrough of the official VMCA practice exam by section:Discovery Question 05 Question 09 Question 17 Question 21 Question 25 Question 29 Question 30 Question 31

Have you ever wanted:A Veeam Backup & Replication demo environment to quickly try something out on? A clean environment you could install Veeam Backup & Replication and configure backup from storage snapshot? Two Cisco HyperFlex clusters to test backup and replication on? A comprehensive Veeam Backup & Replication guided tutorial?If you answered yes to any of the above, do you have a Cisco.com login?If not, register for an account, click here. If so, you may want to considered requesting your own private Veeam + dCloud environment.PLEASE NOTE - Cisco dCloud access requires your Cisco partner Access Level to be L2 or higher.On Cisco dCloud you will find two different Veeam Backup & Replication environments. The first is a “lab” environment that provides a two cluster HyperFlex environment with the Veeam Backup & Replication software.  This is an ideal environment if you want to get experience installing VBR from scratch, then configuring and running backup and replic

The walkthrough of the official #VMCA 2022 practice exam question 30 is ready.Did you have to check the scenario document? Which section did you locate the information inside? 

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As the Veeam Legend 2022 intake is only a couple of months away, I wanted to share my experience and views on the Veeam Legend program, and help those considering it, whether it’s right for them.Today I’ll give a brief overview of the Veeam Legend program in case you’re not familiar and then I’ll tell you how my first year in the program has been. What is the Veeam Legend program?If you don’t know what the Veeam Legend program is, that’s fine, it has only been going for a year now and has had two intakes of Legends. But if you’re working in data protection or want to specialise within this field, it’s a vendor endorsement program of increasing industry recognition.The Veeam Legend program is an acknowledgement from Veeam of individuals that are active in the Veeam Community, whether on the Veeam Community Hub or the Veeam R&D forums. But what counts as “active”? Veeam are deliberately vague on criteria as there are so many ways to contribute. Some of the more common ways are:Helpin

The walkthrough of the official #VMCA 2022 practice exam question 27 is ready.Did you have to check the scenario document? Which section did you locate the information inside? 

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