VMworld 2018 US – VMworld has come
It is again this time of the year where a lot of people gather in Las Vegas for one of the biggest conferences, VMworld 2018. So to say it in Game of Thrones terms:...
Virtualization made in Austria
Spectre-NG – CVE-2018-3639 and CVE-2018-3640
As you might already have heard via other sources, two new variants of the Spectre Attack have been made public in May. Spectre Variante 3a Rogue System Register Read CVE-2018-3640 Spectre Variante 4 Speculative...
VMworld US 2018 – Parties, Gatherings, Events and more
Attending VMworld is not only attending an IT conference it is also a big networking event where you can talk to vendors, tweeps or bloggers. What will be better for socialising than parties and gatherings at...
Backup Interoperability Matrix Major Update 2018-06
It’s been some time that I have updated the Backup Interoperability Matrix. My thought was that I should wait until there are more vendors supporting vSphere 6.7. In the June update the following backup...
Windows VM with EFI fails to start
I just wanted to share a situation I encountered recently with one of my customers. My customer built a new UAT environment with some hosts and a Pure Storage. They have then deployed a...
Workstation 14 Upgrade – Authorization Service error 6000009
My main PC was recently updated to the Windows 10 Fall Creator (1709) release. So I thought it was a good time for a VMware Workstation 14 upgrade. The reason for version 14 was...
Merry Christmas – Desaster Recovery with Veeam
The Story It was approx. 6am when my little girl woke me up on Dec. 24th, the day we in Austria celebrate Christmas. Just a small side note. Unlike US and other countries in...
Backup Interoperability Matrix Major Update 2017-12
In the December update the following backup software was updated: VMware vSphere Data Protection 6.1.5 Veritas NetBackup 8.1 IBM Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 8.1.4 EMC Networker 9.2.1 CommVault Simpana 11.0 SP9 Hitachi Data...
Gigabyte BRIX / Intel NUC Gen6/7 – ESXi shutdown issue fixed
I bought some month ago three Gigabyte BRIX GS-BSi3HAL-6100 boxes to run vSAN on top of it in my home lab. These boxes were running 24/7 for the last couple of month without doing...
VeeamOn Tour 2017 – Vienna Summary
As I wrote in my last post Veeam was touring through Austria and one of these stops was Vienna. I blocked this date in my calendar because as a Media Partner I wanted to...
VeeamON Tour 2017 – Next stop: Austria
VeeamON Tour 2017 (english version) VeeamON 2017 took place in the beautiful city of New Orleans and was an awesome conference. If you had the chance to attend you will know what I’m talking...
