So I covered Veeam Backup and Replication v8 here. And now for the Veeam ONE Edition of the v8 update post.
Pretty simple, mount the ISO, follow the instructions for Veeam One install, which will detect and upgrade the existing environment.
So you will see that straight away a new set of swish icons, sporting the new blue look.
Sometimes we get so bogged down into the technical details, we forget that some people just want to know about a product and how it’s used, not how to configure it and the advance settings.
This blog post was first wrote for my employers blog by me, but I think it’s a perfect High Level post detailing a customer and how the product met their requirements.
Working in the financial sector, the company has around 200 on-site employees, projecting to expand up to 300 with a recruitment drive they are planning. After having a new VMware infrastructure implemented and upgrading their Microsoft Servers to the latest and greatest, the backup solution was the next on the upgrade list. Continue reading Veeam: High Level End user case study, from an engineer’s perspective
HP iLO is a great tool to have, remote console access, unfortunately it is sometimes forgotten by engineers and technicians to be configured. Which is a pain when you then need remote access to the ESXi.
So here is how to configure the HP iLO IP address using the ESXCLI via SSH.
So basically I had a host failure where all of the configure was lost, if I was more savvy with Powershell/PowerCLI, I would have been able to rebuild it all via scripts, but that clones the settings from a working host.
But nevermind that is for a different day of learning.
So I configured the host to the point of Networking, so the vSwitches had the correct NICs, but I needed to do all the port groups, which in the GUI if you have a few to do is time consuming.
So in PowereCLI, pull all of your information, port-group names and VLAN IDs.
Get-Vmhost -name <FQDN of host> | Get-VirtualSwitch -name | Get-VirtualPortGroup
To create a port-group
Get-Vmhost -name <FQDN of host> | Get-VirtualSwitch -Name | New-VirtualPortgroup -Name "Name of PG" -VlanID
Obviously this is a very short crude method of achieving what I need, but here you can see the basic building blocks needed to create Port Group in PowerCLI.
Regards
Dean
Coding, Scripting, Powershelling, etc etc, Dirty words in the mouth of Infrastructure guys across the globe.
When I was in college taking on my computer course, I had two options, Hardware and Networking, or Web Design. I went with my interests and skillsets, hardware and networking.
Coding to me is something I wasn’t interesting in when I became a geek, I wanted to provide the platforms for you to build and run your apps on, not be the guy building the apps. It looks like I screwed up, Job Security wise and Pay wise.
5 Years ago when I was getting into the IT industry, it was taking a number of days to provision a server ready for application installation and deployment. Now, thanks to virtualisation, this has been reduced to minutes. Something I think I’ll blog about on another day, the changes in the industry as I see it.
Here’s two slides showing this, provided by Joe Baguley (CTO, VMware).
