“Veeam Free complete backup script” for vmware host
OK I had some’ free time in recent days and, since I was intrigued by the possibility to schedule the “zip backup” of the free Veeam 8 version with patch 2.0 just released, I decided to create a script to completely backup all the virtual machine managed by a vmware host. Tutto quello che […]
Veeam Backup & Replication 8.0 Update 2
E’ Veeam 8 Patch2 is out! It contains several improvements (i.e.. for integrating Veeam Endpoints Free) and some interesting news (the most important is the support for vsphere6!). A note that I think it's interesting concerns the free version: PowerShell Support in Free Edition. Start-VBRZip cmdlet is now enabled in Veeam Backup™ Free Edition, […]
How to install .net framework 3.5 on Windows 2012 R2
It would seem extremely simple to install .net framework 3.5 on Windows 2012 since it is among the features to be installed (exactly as in Windows 2008 R2); in fact if you try to install the installation will fail because it can not find the source to be installed because the default are not copied during the installation of the HD but I know there are still […]
vsphere client console error “The VMRC console has disconnected.. attempting to reconnect”
Yesterday I got this error, I was connected to a single esx 5.0 node.0 update 3, I could not open a newly created vm console in any way, I got this error in the upper part of the window: “The VMRC console has disconnected.. attempting to reconnect” alla fine la soluzione è stata semplicemente aggiornare il vsphere […]
How to update disks firmware on Dell EqualLogic storage
Si tratta di una banalità 🙂 Vi basta scaricare dal sito https://eqlsupport.dell.com/secure/login.aspx (of course you have to have an account to login…) the package “Hard Disk Drive Firmware Update Utility v X.X” section “Recommended PS Series Hard Disk Drive Firmware”. You can download it in .zip format or in .tgz format if you download it in .zip format not […]
Lifecycle Controller Dell iDRAC Problems – The updates you are trying to apply are not Dell Authorized updates
It happens to have to put your hands on Dell servers, maybe not updated for months / years, through the lifecycle controller (F10 during the system boot to update bios and firmware of the present hardware). This is a solution that has saved me several times…. apart from the first course in which I threw away hours to figure out how […]
Exchange winmail.dat attachments and RTF format
Often you receive email, from users who use exchange as mail server, with a winmail.dat attachment unreadable by most mail clients. Often to read it the simplest thing is to use the webmail or some software that can open it and interpret it correctly. The cause of the problem is the format in which […]
Create microsoft cluster on Dell Vertex VRTX, shared disks problem
I've had to create a microsoft cluster on a Dell Vertex (or VRTX), I do not know if you know exactly what it is, is a low-cost blade integrated infrastructure with the server part, networking and storage. The peculiar thing of the storage part is that it is run by a raid controller which is normally 8 perc […]