- Disk Hard disk # has incorrect changed block tracking configuration - Today another Veeam troubleshooting trick. It’s possible that you’ll receive the following error in one of your Veeam Backup Jobs: Verifying change block tracking:Disk “Hard disk 1” has incorrect changed block tracking configuration This is how it looks like in the Veeam Backup console: The procedure which Veeam describes in the solution for this problem [...]
- Veeam: Module Snapshot poweron failed. Unable to retrieve the current working directory - After performing an Instant Recovery you might get the following error when the VM is trying to power on: After a quick search on the Veeam Forums I found the following topic: http://www.veeam.com/forums/ about the same issue. In this topic I found the following solution to this issue: Well, finally i get the issue fixed. [...]
- PowerCLI: Easy iSCSI Send Target setup - In January this year I created a post about Easy NFS datastore setup with PowerCLI. In this post I showed how you can use a reference host to copy all the NFS share configurations to the new host. In this post I will show you how to do the exact same thing only for iSCSI [...]
- PowerCLI: Return the iSCSI Software Adapter - In my previous postsabout how to manage iSCSI targets with PowerCLI part 1 and part 2. I used the following line to return the iSCSI adapter: $hba = $esx | Get-VMHostHba -Type iScsi But when I used this line against a vSphere 4.1 update 1 host with Broadcom BCM5709 (Dell Poweredge R710). vSphere will use [...]
- Veeam: Change Restore points and deleted VMs retention period - If you want to change the amount of restore points and the deleted VMs retention period, you can do this for your backup jobs by hand. But if you need to change a lot of Veeam Backup & Replication Jobs like I needed to do. You can find these settings in the Backup Job properties: [...]
- Veeam: How to change the Job notification settings with Powershell - Today just a quick post about how Powershell can help you change the VM attribute option in Veeam Backup & Replication. Imaging that you have 20 backup jobs and you want or need to change the VM attribute settings. You can do this for every job with 10 mouse clicks or you can do it [...]
- Veeam: Change the Veeam Storage Optimization with Powershell - In Veeam Backup and Replication you can choose three different types of Storage optimization. See the blog post on the Veeam website for more info: http://www.veeam.com/blog From @gostev I received the following tip: Note that storage optimization will not take effect until next full backup. Setting is used for newly created backup storage only. There [...]
- PowerCLI: Error 1406. Could not write value InstallPath to key…. - Today I wanted to install PowerCLI on a new installed Windows 2008 R2 server. But I ended up with the following warning: To fix this, you have to delete the following Registry key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\VMware, Inc. And press retry. The PowerCLI setup will finish without errors. Source: http://www.annoying.dk Filed under: Automation, VMware Tagged: PowerCLI, Registry
- How to enable SNMP on a Linksys/Cisco SLM2008 switch - In this post I will show you how to enable SNMP on a Linksys/Cisco SLM2008. All credits go out for Romain Boissat who made this post:https://chroot-me.in/blog/index.php/blog/35. First off all you need the download the script from https://chroot-me.in/blog/media/enable_snmp.pl and need to have a Linux box with Perl installed. The first time I ran the script on [...]
- How to move the Veeam VBRCatalog folder - In this quick post I share a Veeam Communities post by rfn and some findings of myself to successfully move the VBRCatalog to a new location. First, stop the Veeam Backup Services: Move the VBRCatalog Direcotory to the new location. The next step is to change the Registry. Open Registry Editor and browse to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\VeeaM\Veeam [...]
