VSS
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NSX
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 with NSX. In fact, the NSX vSwitch is based on…
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Hyper-V
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 have all most likely been in situations where snapshots caused…
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Hyper-V
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 for backing up virtual machines – the “saved state method”…
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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…