Can I Upgrade Veeam 10 to Veeam 11?
KB ID 0001758 Problem People are always ‘a bit twitchy’ about upgrading their backup software. Mines on my test network so I’m a little more cavalier about diving in and clicking next. So when you want to Upgrade Veeam 10 to Veeam 11, peoples main concerns are; Will I lose my backup / replication jobs? Will I need to rescan backup repositories? Remember Veeam keeps all its data in a database, so your configs should...
VMware Fusion: Not Enough Physical Memory
KB ID 0001715 Problem I upgraded to macOS Big Sur this week, and was surprised everything still worked! That was until I tried to start up my Windows 1o Virtual machine. “Not enough physical memory is available to power on this virtual machine with its configured settings.” Solution Though it took me a while to ‘fix’, the fix is quite straight forward, I was running version 11 (see Below). As soon as I upgraded...
vSphere: Downgrading Guest ‘Hardware Version’
KB ID 0001458 Problem I always assumed this was either not possible, (without using VMware converter,) or at least very difficult. I downgraded one of my test ESX boxes from 6.5 to 5.5 this week, and needed to lower the hardware versions on some of my VMs accordingly. Solution Connect to the host ESX server via SSH, then navigate to the VMFS volumes; cd /vmfs/volumes Change directory so you are in the right ‘datastore’,...
Event ID 27 – “The description for Event ID 27 from source e1iexpress cannot be found”
KB ID 0001130 Problem I was seeing intermittent network drops on my Server 2012 R2 servers, so when I took a lot in the logs this was what I found; Log Name: System Source: e1iexpress Date: {time} Event ID: 27 Task Category: None Level: Warning Keywords: Classic User: N/A Computer: {host-name} Description: The description for Event ID 27 from source e1iexpress cannot be found....