Jake

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Jan 20

Direct Backup from SAN – Veeam FAIL

Veeam have released a patch to address the issues that users have been experiencing with Veeam v6 direct from SAN backups.  The issues being seen include switching over to NBD mode, general long backups times and basic failures from the direct backup from san mode. The following KB lists the patch required: http://www.veeam.com/kb_articles.html/KB1442

Jan 19

VAAI comes to the P2000

VAAI (vStorage API for Array Integration) is one of the storage application programming interface (API) sets in vSphere which allows hardware offload, ESX/ESXi hosts perform certain operations faster and consume less server resources (more on VAAI in a later post).  Let’s just say at this point, if your storage device supports it, implement the required …

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Jan 18

HP Data Protector – patches for vSphere 5 support

Are you running 6.2 of HP Data Protector?  Upgrade to the latest (Windows) patches to ensure vSphere 5 compatability: Core – DPWIN_00527 Cell Server – DPWIN_00529 Cell Console – DPWIN_00530 Media Agent – DPWIN_00516 Disk Agent – DPWIN_00515 Virtual Environment – DPWIN_00531 It should be noted that a previous patch (00528) did have a patch …

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Jan 16

HP Data Protector 6.21 Available

HP has released Data Protector 6.21 which now includes the HP StoreOnce de-duplication engine.  This enables the delivery of high performance and resource efficient software based de-duplication which helps improve utilization of storage across the enterprise.  This helps maximise existing IT resources, such as disk based backup storage, and meet stringent service levels (backup windows …

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Jan 14

New Look Blog!

I’ve been using the same ol’ theme on my blog for a while, and it was nice and simple, but I thought I would try something a little different, and voila! The new theme is based on Graphene, which is pretty nice, I did like iFeature, but Graphene just seems easier to use. I’ve added …

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