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...
Virtualization made in Austria
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...
Veeam Agent for Windows – Backups not working after upgrade to 2.0
When Veeam released their Veeam Agent for Windows 2.0 on May 11th, 2017 I was first in line to go for an upgrade on my main PC (Windows 10 Build 1607) at home. The...
Veeam Agent for Windows: Migrate Agent Backups to Veeam Repository
When Veeam released their first version of their Endpoint Backup I was hooked. An easy to use client backup tool that can save you from a lot of pain when something goes wrong with...
VMworld EMEA 2017 – #vBreakfast 2017 edition
Please join Andreas Lesslhumer and many more vNerds and vGeeks for the #vBreakfast 2017 edition. Last years #vBreakfast was really awesome. We had more than 20 people who joined us very early in the morning...