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Author: Niels Engelen

Working as a Principal Analyst in Product Management for Veeam Software with an interest in anything virtual and cloud with a strong focus on AWS, Azure and Microsoft 365. He is also a VMware Certified Professional, a Veeam Certified Architect and gained the VMware vExpert award (2012-2022).
Free goodies: Veeam ONE Free Edition

Free goodies: Veeam ONE Free Edition

It seems today is free goodies day at least thanks to Veeam. Today they released a FREE version of Veeam ONE “Free, powerful and easy-to-use VMware management”. Quote taken from their website: Veeam ONE Free Edition is a risk-free way to experience firsthand the many benefits that Veeam ONE brings to virtualization management. With no restrictions on the number of vCenter Servers and ESX(i) hosts you can manage, Veeam ONE Free Edition lets you see how 24×7 monitoring, management reporting…

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Monitoring Veeam FLR sessions using PowerCLI

Monitoring Veeam FLR sessions using PowerCLI

Veeam Backup & Replication comes with a few built-in PowerShell cmdlets. Sadly I couldn’t find a cmdlet which allows me to monitor running Veeam FLR sessions. Keep in mind that this post only works when you run a FLR which is a non-Windows virtual machine!! When you perform a restore, Veeam Backup & Replication will start an extra virtual machine which runs with the name VeeamFLR-SERVERNAME-randomhash. The script below will see if a restore is running for a defined amount…

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Installing Windows 8 Consumer Preview in VMware Workstation 8

Installing Windows 8 Consumer Preview in VMware Workstation 8

Today Microsoft released the new Windows 8 Preview which can be downloaded here. I decided to download it and test if it runs in VMware Workstation 8 and it does! Below are the easy steps to do so. First go to File -> New Virtual Machine Click Next. Choose “Workstation 8.0” as Hardware compatibility. Click Next. Choose “Installer disc image file (iso) and point the path out to the Windows ISO (either 32 or 64bit). Click Next. Choose “Microsoft Windows”…

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Configuration issues: vmodl.fault.HostCommunication

Configuration issues: vmodl.fault.HostCommunication

While adding an ESX host to a vCenter I received the following warning: Configuration Issues Virtual machine creation may fail because agent is unable to retrieve VM creation options from the host (vmodl.fault.HostCommunication). First make sure you can successfully ping the specific ESX host FQDN from your vCenter server. Second log on to your ESX host via SSH and make sure you can ping the vCenter server FQDN. If any of the above fails the main problem is a DNS…

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New Fling: vBenchmark by VMware Labs

New Fling: vBenchmark by VMware Labs

VMware Labs released a new Fling called vBenchmark. The download is available as OVA (or OVF) and the total size is about 457MB. vBenchmark is packaged as a virtual appliance with the following configuration: vCPUs: 1 vRAM: 1.5 GB vHDD: 5 GB (thick), 1.1 GB (thin) Quote taken from the Fling page: Have you ever wondered how to quantify the benefits of virtualization to your management? If so, please consider using vBenchmark. vBenchmark measures the performance of a VMware virtualized…

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