Create VMware vSphere Distributed Switch VDS for NSX Data Center
In deploying a VMware NSX environment, one of the first things that you will want to do is create vSphere Distributed Switches for the hosts in the environment to use…
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Use Snapshots in Production with Hyper-V Production Checkpoints
For most virtualization admins who have spent any time in the trenches with administering virtual environments, snapshots are just a bad thing for most use cases, especially production workloads. We…
Hyper-V backups saved state vs child VM snapshots
When thinking about backing up Hyper-V workloads, we want to consider the mechanisms that can be used to perform the backup of the virtual machines. Hyper-V can use two means…
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…