Today I found out a disk had failed in a production SAN. Oh no!!! But like previous experiences, this is different. And my support experience is pretty darn good. So I thought lets write this up. Because you always here about the terrible failures and pain in the arse experiences, never the good. Note: This … Continue reading Nimble Storage – The life of a failed disk
So my blog is now one year old!!! Unfortunately I didn’t get any cake for myself. I bought the domain back Feburary 2014, and setup the WordPress blog official on 4th April 2014. Since then, its been a kick ass ride producing content, appearing as a guest blogger on other sites and generally earning appreciation … Continue reading One year blogging
I’ve completed and passed the Veeam VMCE v8 exam, having done the v7 exam some time ago. The official deadline is 15th May, to upgrade from v7 exam to the v8 exam, miss this deadline and you need to take the full course within 90 days and pass the exam to keep your status, anything … Continue reading Veeam VMCE v8 Exam Experience
Updated 29.01.15 – Please see this new post for the patch fix So on twitter I found out that VMware CBT has a bit of a fault, the tweet linked me to reddit here. Basically CBT has a fault where if you are using CBT on a VMDK file thats <128GB, and then increase this … Continue reading Major bug in VMware’s CBT function. KB2090639 (Causes data corruption for backups)