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How to build low cost shared storage for vSphere lab – assembling the parts

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: August 9, 2014

Pieces showed up with the UPS shipping, so …let’s mount it !In the introductory part I wrote few days ago I presented you with the choices I took and why I went the way DIY (Do It Yourself) for my home lab for my shared storage for VMware vSphere Lab. Today I received all the […]

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| Filed Under: Backup Tagged With: Cheap NAS made at home, DIY home made NAS, VMware Lab with home made NAS

Veeam Backup 5.0.2 supports backup of Exchange 2010 SP1

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 13, 2013

Veeam Backup and Replication 5.0.2 released. New version of Veeam backup and Replication has been released few days ago. Maintenance release only which fixes some bugs, but there are some new features introduced too. First of all, you are now able to evolve (if it’s your case) to Exchange 2010 with SP1, because it’s now […]

| Filed Under: Backup Tagged With: U-Air for Exchange 2010 R2, Veeam Backup, Veeam Backup and replication 5.0.2

Top 10 Best Practices for VMware Data Protection

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: January 11, 2019

Free Webminar with Eric Siebert – Top 10 Best Practices for VMware Data Protection. Usually I’m always missing webminars, because the time zones between Europe and United States. There is a new webminar scheduled with Eric Siebert which is scheduled for March 16th. The duration of 1h. Featured Speaker: Eric Siebert, VMware vExpert Join Eric […]

| Filed Under: Backup Tagged With: backup VMs, Top 10 best practices for data protection

Testing Paragon Hard Disk Manager Suite

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: October 15, 2017

I was given an opportunity to test the newly released Paragon Hard Disk Manager Suite 2011. The software is multi-purpose tool which can do several tasks useful for power home user or small business enterprise. It’s a partition, backup/copy multiboot, disk defrag tool…. When you first start the software you have a basic view, with all […]

| Filed Under: Backup Tagged With: Paragon Hard Disk Manager Suite

How-to enable verbose logging in VDR – VMware Data Recovery

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: August 9, 2014

A quick post about how to enable verbose logging in VDR. Update: VDR has been replaced in vSphere 5.1 by VDP (vSphere Data Protection). The product is based on EMC’s Avamar code and present an interesting upgrade for existing customers which are upgrading from vSphere 4.x where vSphere Data Protection (VDP) was bundled. But to transition […]

| Filed Under: Backup Tagged With: VDR verbose logging, VMware Data Recovery

If you’re trying to use Windows CIFS with VDR

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: August 9, 2014

Error when trying to use CIFS share as a destination for backup. If you’re trying to setup Windows CIFS as a destination deduplication store for your VMware VDR (VMware Data Recovery) appliance, you might run into an error. It’s an error which you can see at the console of the VDR appliance: Status code returned […]

| Filed Under: Backup Tagged With: VDR, Vmware Backup solution, VMware Data Recovery

NFR of Veeam products for every VCP, vExpert or VCI

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 15, 2017

If you’re VCP, vExpert or VCI go and get NFR keys for your homelab. There are editors and software vendors who cares and who are close to the users…. and customers. One of them is Veeam. With this excellent news from Veeam software. Veeam offers NFR keys of their products for all people certified VCP, […]

| Filed Under: Backup Tagged With: Veeam Backup and Replication NFR, Veeam Gift for VCPs, Veeam Monitor

How to fix damaged restore points in VDR

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: April 26, 2025

VMware Data Recovery Integrity Check Fails

VDR – VMware Data Recovery, fixing damaged restore poins. VDR is a part of vSphere Essentials PLUS and above versions (except standard) and it’s a virtual appliance which helps you to protect your Virtual Machines running under VMware vSphere 4.x by using deduplication and CBT. It’s a simple backup solution with no e-mail reporting (yet), […]

| Filed Under: Backup Tagged With: destination datastore locked in VDR, Fixing damaged restore points, VDR destination datastores locked, VMware Data Recovery

Using VMware Data Recovery without vCenter?

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: April 26, 2025

Using VDR without vCenter, in which situations? I wonder why would someone would want to use VMware Data Recovery (VDR) without vCenter. Yes there might be a case for that. In case you’re running vCenter as a Virtual Machine (which is good practice) and this VM is being protected by High Availability (HA). Then if […]

| Filed Under: Backup Tagged With: Best practices VDR, VDR, VMware Data Recovery

VDR appliance not mounting automatically the backup destination after reboot

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: April 26, 2025

VDR not mounting automatically a deduplication store. I was having issues with not mounting automatically the backup destination after rebooting the VDR appliance since some time now. This was happening in my environment since I upgraded to the VDR 1.2. This is something that I was aware of and I usually mount the destination deduplication […]

| Filed Under: Backup Tagged With: deduplication store not mounted automatically, not mounting automatically after reboot, VMware Data Recovery

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