Recently for a customer I was searching for some best practices documents about Hyper-V. I came across two articles by Roger Osborne which are both interesting. They both describe the best practices for Hyper-V in the same…
Today I visited the Open Storage Summit EMEA 2013 held in the Mercure City Hotel in Amsterdam. After a 2 hour drive I arrived at the venue, just in time to grab a cup of coffee. I poured the blackliquid through…
Working with NTFS junctions (mountpoints) gave us some issues while querying the size of the file share. The OS of the client (Windows XP in this case) returns the size of the disk where the folder resides the mountpoint is…
Some time ago we where at a customer and ran into a problem backing up virtual machines using vss and snapshots. First I’ll explain the situation we got into. This customer has offices geographically spread. Currently the customer is in…
A couple of weeks ago I came across a similar problem as in my previous post with update manager, this was a different problem however: I took another shot at examining the logfiles of vCenter Update Manager on the vCenter…