Oracle Ravello Bloggers Day 2 – The why
Why? I am going to try something a little different here and start with why for the rather than what, after watching this TED video from Simon Sinek. I made an investment in myself...
Ian Sanderson Blog
Deploy Nutanix CE 5.5 onto bare metal Oracle Ravello
Background. For a long time, I have wanted to build a Nutanix Community Edition (CE) cluster but never had the hardware to be able to do so. Enter Ravello by Oracle. I have covered...
How to deploy a Veeam proxy server to Azure
Background. Following on from my previous post about recovering virtual machines to Azure, there was a step I did not cover. Deploying a Veeam Proxy in Azure will improve recovery times as the data can...
Deploy VMware VCSA 6.5 onto bare metal Oracle Ravello
Background. Let’s start with Oracle Ravello, what is it and why am I bothered about it? There is an overview of the service here but let me show you the headline blurb. Enterprise VMware...
Microsoft Teams failed to extract installer – Workaround
Background. The Microsoft Teams Client fails to install on Windows 10 with the error message Installation has failed, Failed to extract installer. A bit of searching on the internet reveals this seems to be a fairly...
How to restore to Azure with Veeam 9.5
Background. One of the features that have been available in Veeam for a little while is the ability to recover from any backup taken with Veeam, be that VMware, Hyper-V, Veeam Agent for Windows...
Fix: Error 53 ERROR_BAD_NETPATH with Veeam Agent for Windows 2.1
Background I have previously written a blog post about Veeam Agent for Windows management with Veeam Backup and Replication 9.5 U3. In that post, I mentioned the agent upgrade process was not entirely plane...
Managing Veeam Agent for Windows with Veeam 9.5 U3
Managed agents, Veeam, physical workloads, Whats that about then? Well then, Veeam has come full circle from its roots as a virtual infrastructure backup platform, to a full availability suite. Offering backups to the...
Veeam Agent for Windows and OneDrive you say? And its free!
Free is the new free. Let’s get a bit of background to this feature that seems to have slipped under the radar, Veeam Agent for Windows 2.1 was released with Veeam 9.5 U3 to...
Fix: Veeam Failed to check whether snapshot is in progress (network mode). The RPC server is unavailable. Code 1722
Background Whilst migrating some service roles from Windows server 2008 R2 to Server 2016 I noticed that the Veeam backups of the new servers were failing with the error Failed to check whether snapshot is...
