appassure
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Virtualization
P2V Windows Cluster Rapid Recovery
The last few days I have been involved with a project to P2V an old Windows 2003 (yes cringe, bang head against wall now) cluster running SQL 2005. The P2V is simply a stop gap solution to get the cluster…
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Virtualization
Agentless protection Rapid Recovery 6.0.1
As I mentioned here in the upgrading to Rapid Recovery 6.0.1 post, one of the most anticipated features for me of Rapid Recovery was the agentless backup. Having to maintain agents of any kind is not fun for the administrator.…
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Virtualization
Upgrade AppAssure 5.4.3 to Rapid Recovery 6.0.1
For those of you that don’t know, Dell’s AppAssure product has been rebranded as Rapid Recovery. With 6.0.1 being released, and touting some very worthy features, I decided it was time to upgrade. In this post we will take a…
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Powershell
AppAssure powershell commandlets for administrators
If you administer an AppAssure environment, there is great power in using Powershell to do a lot of the heavy lifting. There are just some things about GUIs we all love to hate and the AppAssure GUI is no exception…
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Virtualization
AppAssure vCenter Permissions for Exporting Virtual Standby VMs
In working recently with AppAssure in exporting VMs for Virtual Standby purposes, I found a lack of documentation in AppAssure or on the net surrounding permissions required in vCenter to export VMs as Virtual Standbys. I wanted to share with…
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Virtualization
AppAssure Multiple SCSI controllers after export to VM
So far in using AppAssure in several environments, it works pretty well and seems to shine with VM to VM exports. It does like most backup software though have a few quirks to deal with. If you are an AppAssure…
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Powershell
Powershell Script to check if AppAssure agent is installed on Servers
If you run Dell’s AppAssure backup software in your environment and have a multitude of servers, it is handy to be able to see which servers in your environment have the agent installed and which ones potentially do not. Using…
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Disaster Recovery
Tape vs Disk vs Cloud backup what solutions are you using?
I wanted to shoot a post out there to you guys visiting the site to see which solutions for backup you are using in your enterprise environment. In doing consulting work like I do, there are still environments utilizing tapes…
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Virtualization
AppAssure export to free ESXi version error
For those of you out there using AppAssure as your backup and restore mechanism in your server environment, you may have ran into an issue with exporting a restore point to ESXi when it is in its free license state.…
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Troubleshooting
AppAssure Network error during transfer of data from volumes
Recently, in working with a development SQL server that had been added to AppAssure, an error was being seen on incremental snapshots after a successful base image. The AppAssure error was very vague and general in terms of what was…
