Upgrade SQL Express for improved performance with Veeam One of the take away for me from VeeamON was that upgrading the version of SQL backing Veeam to either 2014 or 2016 will yield great improvements in performance. Now even the latest version of Veeam 9.5 only ships with SQL 2012 Express. […]
Runecast – Software Defined Expertise – My take This is blurb statement on Runecasts website over at https://www.runecast.biz/ but what does that actually mean, what’s the message? Runecast is a virtual appliance that hooks into your vSphere environment which then inspects it for issues pertaining to best practice compliance, security hardening and […]
Introduction – VeeamON Wow what a week in sunny New Orleans! VeeamON 2017 was held between the 16th and 18th May at the Ernest N. Morial Convention centre with around 3000+ people in attendance. It was a great opportunity to catch up with old friends, hook up with digital amigos in real life and […]
Problem – Veeam ONE Monitor could not connect to… You try and connect to a supported vCenter server version with Veeam one but it pops up with the following error Veeam ONE Monitor could not connect to xxx . ESX version is no longer supported. Refer to system requirements for […]
Veeam introduced some cool new features for service providers in Veeam 9.5 update 2, namely the Remote Access for Veeam Backup and Replication Console and Remote Desktop. A full breakdown of these features can be found here https://www.veeam.com/blog/msps-remote-access-backup-replication-9-5-update-2.html . Now although this is geared towards service providers to be able to […]
This is more of a joke from a conversation amongst the Veeam slack channels. How do you explain what Veeam is to some one who is not tech savvy? I came up with the following analogy: You have a pie that you really like. If you ate the pie then you […]
Today I will walk through replacing the SSL certificates on a vSphere 6.5 PSC appliance. This includes replacing the Machine Certificates, User Solution Certificates and the Trusted Root Certificates. This is the same process you will be familiar with from vSphere 6.0 U2 onwards certificate replacement. All certificates will be […]
The Problem When trying to update the certificate on an ESXi host with a certificate generated by the VMCA you may run into the error A general system error occurred: Unable to get signed certificate for host as detailed in this VMware KB HERE. This happens when you try to renew […]
The Problem You just installed Update Manager and you keep getting that annoying SSL pop up when opening the C# client saying its not trusted, that sucks right? Why not spend a bit of time to get rid of that pop up (and not just click the install certificate button). […]
The challenge So you have just built your shiny new VMware Horizon 7 VDI cluster but now you want to publish it externally. There are two ways this can be achieved, you can either use the VMware Horizon Security Server role or you can grab a copy of the VMware […]