Wednesday, 3 May 2017

Azure: Recovery Services VM Backups Failing

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This morning I received a number of emails telling me that the backups of some of my Azure VMs had failed with the following message; ...
Tuesday, 4 April 2017

vSphere: Snapshot Error - Change Tracking Target File Already Exists

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I ran into an issue when attempting to consolidate and create snapshots of VMs being backed up using NetBackup. The snapshot creation would ...
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Tuesday, 17 January 2017

Windows: Wrongly Hidden "Protected Operating System" Files and Folders

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I came across an issue where a folder of SQL backups had been wrongly marked as hidden. They had been classed as "Protected Operating S...
Wednesday, 14 December 2016

VMware SRM 6.0: Unable To Protect VMs - "Device not found: CD/DVD drive 1"

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When trying to protect a number of VMware Virtual Machines with SRM 6.0 we ran into the following alert on some of the VMs; "Device ...
Friday, 14 October 2016

vSphere: List Network Details For All Hosts

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I had a requirement to view detailed network information for all host NICs under a vCenter server. The following command generates the requi...
Tuesday, 23 August 2016

AWS: Enabling Federation With ADFS

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Following the guide found in the blog post below; https://blogs.aws.amazon.com/security/post/Tx71TWXXJ3UI14/Enabling-Federation-to-AWS-usi...
Monday, 15 August 2016

Azure: Using Azure AzCopy

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When attempting to upload files to a storage account in Azure, if you upload using the portal no Check-MD5 value appears to be generated. In...