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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).
Moving locked VM’s in ESXi using SSH

Moving locked VM’s in ESXi using SSH

VMware vSphere is a very nice piece of virtualization software. Sadly there are a few things that can go wrong and I had the “luck” to hit one of those. Waking up on a morning to notice that 4 VM’s are offline because of the ESXi host going down (hardware failure) isn’t something you want to wake up with. The worst news was that it was a new host which hadn’t been added to a cluster yet so no HA…

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RRDtool: 32bit to 64bit?

RRDtool: 32bit to 64bit?

While playing around with creating some statistics from several servers I came to the following problem: [warning]ERROR: This RRD was created on other architecture[/warning] The problem was simple, the file was created on a 32 bit machine and I was trying to access it on a 64 bit machine. The fix for this is quite simple but due to Google being a pain from time to time it took me some time to find the solution. Therefor I’m posting it…

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