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Spoiler: Business in not always that bad 🙂 As I’ve said many times, Veeam ONE doesn’t get the recognition it deserves. Then there’s a section that we geeks tend to happily ignore, because it has the word “Business” in it. It makes us think of sales reps hassling us, so we unconsciously steer clear of it 🙂 Under the “Last Backup Date” branch you’ll find two pre-built lists that are super handy — especially the first one, which lists the VMs that DON’T have a backup! ...
A long time ago, when I was studying Telecommunications engineering In the past… I remember I spent months working to produce an interface for a little simulator in Optics.I absolutely cannot recall what it exactly was… more than 25 years are gone! I asked myself “what if Claude Code existed?” Today I asked Claude to develop a Low Pass filter simulator. Nothing special, simply something I remember what’s for 😃 It developed a “web application” that looks like this ...
Spoiler: False Positives 🙂 Veeam ONE and VBR Alerts First of all, I was checking the Veeam ONE Alerts in my HomeLab. A “Potential malware in backups” alarm was present: Some details are already there and may be helpful. Scrolling down the description, more info is available: The same alerts with a different view are also available in the VBR interface (History → Malware Detection → Malware Alerts), in case you don’t have ONE installed (WHY???? it’s a great… ONE 😃): ...
Last chance to make it alive again. Reboot In my lab I have a pretty old fanless NUC slowly running Proxmox. Recently the Veeam VSA 13.1 has been having issues and disturbing other VMs on the host. It appears that when heavily loaded (em… doing a simple backup) it hangs and partially hangs the host too: some VMs die and cannot restart, others still work, the GUI becomes unreachable and the CLI very slow — sometimes so slow it can’t even run a reboot. ...
Don’t forget to store the S.O. password and MFA. My Veeam V13 VSA in my home lab wasn’t running configuration backups… and I recently figured out why. While trying to get SSH access, I headed into the Host Management Interface (https://VSA_IP:10443) to enable it. That requires approval from the Security Officer user. I tried logging in as that account, but the password I had saved didn’t work 😪 — no big deal, except that when I checked my now-overcrowded Google Authenticator, the corresponding MFA entry was nowhere to be found. I can no longer log in even with the correct password. ...
A mistake more frequent than expected. The proper situation Production databases produce logs, ideally in a dedicated storage location. Backup software continuously processes and saves them: after securing them somewhere (backup repositories, typically) they are truncated/deleted in order to prevent the “live” log storage location from running out of space. The “live” log storage location has enough space to allow the database to run for a long time even if no one is “cleaning” it. ...
OMG. The problem I am currently working at a customer’s site, and they have a Network Access Control system that requires authentication to connect to their wired network. I received a user account in their AD with an initial, simple password, and access to a VDI client. After connecting to the wired network I used the initial password to authenticate to the network and then to the VDI client. From within the VDI client I changed the password to a secret one. ...
Funny. The problem I installed in my lab a Rocky Linux (to use the Veeam PowerShell module against a VSA, but that’s not important) and I chose the minimal install. The Guest OS interaction test failed complaining about a missing tar. The solution It’s simple: install tar ;-) dnf install tar
It’s mandatory… The need As I wrote last February in my blog post vCenter VCSA 9 installation, in order to have a fully licensed VMware 9 Home Lab (as a vExpert and VCF certified I have the licenses to do so) VCF Operations is needed, because licensing is no longer manageable from vCenter. So I made my wallet bleed and bought a new host (Minisforum MS-A2, I’ll write about this later) with 96 GB RAM. I re-installed vCenter 9 and went with many worries into the VCF Operations installation. Long story short: it’s not a 3-click-and-go process, but I got through it fine on the first attempt. ...
Why Why not? 😃 Initially. But later I’ve found it being very easy to use Claude for developing apps on my Arduino Uno Q. The installation Short story short: follow the instructions for installing Claude Code as if you were using a normal Ubuntu machine. The Arduino board must have an internet connection, of course. Usage Claude Code Yeah, it starts and it’s pretty fast — not different from a normal PC. ...