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By vervoortjurgen|2016-10-26T12:43:02+01:00February 13th, 2015|IBM, Vmware|

Did you ever run into an unresponsive ESXi hosts? well I did this month and it gave me a lot of headache this past weeks I want to share my finding so others can learn from it and also solve it faster and not to have to restart your hosts and all your VM's. So let me tell a little bit of the environment. The customer had a IBM blade H chassis and 3 HS23 blade each 48 GB. All blades are connecting to a fiber IBM DS3524 and for replication we chose for an iSCSI qnap system to keep it cheap. [...]

Backup free vmware ESXi 5.x standalone server

By vervoortjurgen|2014-08-18T21:45:43+01:00August 18th, 2014|Vmware|

hello some of my customers has stand alone servers running only 3 or 4 vm machines on it and ESXi host is installed with a free license key. Since these vm's needed to be backed up I tried 2 backup solutions: veeam 6 and backup exec 2014 first I tried backup exec 2014. it just wouldn't backup and de snapshot wasnt possible Second I tried veeam backup. most of the time this product works well for me, but I was wrong. it also failed to back up veeam was more clear in the error. it said that the license of [...]

VMware ESXi unresponsive

Backup free vmware ESXi 5.x standalone server