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VeeamON 2023 will start next week in Miami May 22-25.
There are two different way to attend it: in person and online.
The online way is totally free but is limited to:
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One requirement for using CDP replication with Veeam product is Installing I/O Filter on each cluster where the VMs that you plan to protect reside and where replicas will reside (on each ESXi host of the cluster).
The CDP I/O Filter are basically a VAIO plugin added using a VIB package.
To install the filter on a specific cluster using the Veeam Console just open the Inventory view.
In the inventory pane, navigate to the Virtual Infrastructure > VMware vSphere > vCenter Servers > <vCenter Server Name> > <Cluster Name> node and right-click it. In the menu, select Install I/O filter. For more information see the Veeam documentation.
But sometimes the VIB is not installed automatically, so you can try to install it manually.
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Commvault platform release 2023 (11.30) is a semi-annual release and introduces new data protection capabilities to help advance customer’s hybrid & multi-cloud strategies.
The release 2023 is generally available (GA) since Feb 15th, 2023.
Commvault platform releases (formerly called “Feature Releases”) could have two different types:
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The possibility to backup VCSA using VAMI at file level is very powerfull and could be a good “plan-B” in case the backup at image level is not restorable (it happens in case of file/DB corruptions).
But, of course, is not perfect and still in latest version there are some issues, like the VAMI backup retention issue.
But can also happen that backup fails with no specific errors.
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Pure Storage sees strong customer adoption of its Evergreen Subscription Services, surpassing $1B in ARR for the first time.
Pure Storage announced continued growth of its subscription service offerings, including its Evergreen® portfolio, in addition to a new energy efficiency service level agreement (SLA) for Evergreen//One™. The introduction of the new SLA represents the first and only energy efficiency guarantee in the enterprise storage as a service market, and supports Pure Storage’s mission to provide customers with the most sustainable storage technology to meet their goals.
continue reading…In this article, we will review the application Stellar Repair for Exchange which is a very promising application for when disaster strikes on your Exchange Server or if you wish to recover Exchange database with minimal effort. The application is ideal as you can open easily open corrupt EDB file with no issues and recover data from it with this application whereas other application fail to do so. Let’s explore the application and see if it fits its description.
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VeeamON Update 2022 is only one day away!
It’s time to block your calendar and attend our must‑see, virtual event to get updates on products, talk to our solution experts and level up your skills. It’s a jam‑packed agenda you won’t want to miss on Nov. 3.
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According with Product Lifecycle Matrix and KB 89305, VMware has officially declared, vSphere 6.5.x and vSphere 6.7.x will be End of General Support by October 15th 2022.
To maintain your full level of Support and Subscription Services, VMware recommends upgrading to vSphere 7.
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Metallic DMaaS (data management as a service) was introduced by Commvault in late 2019 as part of its Intelligent Data Platform to provide SaaS delivered data protection and management.
Data management helps to build and maintain a data framework in order to store, ingest, transform, archive, transmit, and secure the data needed by the business.
Metallic provides:
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Data Domain (or Power Protect if you prefer the new term) needs some free available space to manage its filesystem and all the mtree(s).
By default there is a critical alert if the used space exeed 90% of the total space.
The name of the alert is “SpaceExceedsCriticalThreshold” and cannot be changed from the GUI.
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The upgrade procedure for DellEMC PowerStore X from version 2.0 to version 2.1 is a little tricky. The Dell EMC PowerStore Software Upgrade Guide explains the steps, but still there are some issue that you should mange.
Because you have also to upgrade the ESXi from 6.7 to 7.0, but before this, you need also to resize the VMFS datastore.
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If you try to upgrade the PowerStore OS and you get this error message:
Prestage failed on appliance XXXX with the following message: The system encountered unexpected backend errors. Please contact support. (0xE04030010001)
Then you may don’t need to contact the support, because the solution could be easy.
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If you are using Veeam Backup & Replication (but also other backup solution) you can perform both backup and replication with the same tool.
But with latest version of vSphere you can probably notice a huge difference between backup and replication speed if you are using NBD transport mode.
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