How to schedule a powerCli script with task scheduler
It's incredible how many hours it takes every time you have to schedule something with the windows task scheduler…. this thing has cost me one hour and a half so I thought to write this article to save time to those who are in the same situation. First we must separate two situations: pre powerCli […]
“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 Create a Recovery Media and perform a Bare Metal Restore with Veeam Endpoint
Veeam Endpoint at the time of writing this article is still in beta but is freely downloadable from Veeam. What is it and what is it for Veeam Endpoint? Said very simply it is a backup software from Veeam that allows you to backup and protect physical machines, is exact Veeam now […]
Cool things about Veeam Endpoint
This will be a short article to show what I liked about Veeam Endpoint, i commenti sono benvenuti per instaurare una discussione 🙂 Semplice da installare e configurare nello stile Veeam: clear and simple interfaces Manages incremental backups Fast (as Veeam B&R) Can restore entire machines, interi volumi ma anche singoli file Permette di […]
How to properly install the Dell tape TL2000 drivers for Veeam
If you have “to show” a TL2000 Tape (but I think it also applies to a TL4000) to Veeam the first thing to do is download the drivers from the Dell support site. Once downloaded, however, be careful, do not install them from the device manager by doing a simple update of drivers microsoft otherwise Veeam will fail […]
Differences between ESX and ESXi, free and paid license
I decided to write this short post because talking with customers I still listen a lot of people say that esxi is nothing more than the free version of vmware hypervisor….. once and for all: IT IS NOT’ SO!!!! Start by saying that from version 5 of vSphere exists ONLY esxi so it is not for sure […]
