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SMB version issue with NTFS junctions

Gerben — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 18:49:23 +0000

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...

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VM backup fails due to quiescing failure

Gerben — Thu, 03 May 2012 20:40:25 +0000

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...

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VMware Update Manager and Scratch Partition

Gerben — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 13:16:23 +0000

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...

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Scan failed with vCenter Update Manager

Gerben — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 12:47:34 +0000

Some time ago I was at a customer who planned to rollout some patches using VMware vCenter Update Manager on ESXi hosts. First scan went OK, but stage and remediate complained about not able to...

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VMware vCenter Orchestrator classes coming to EMEA

Gerben — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 14:00:54 +0000

The coming months VMware Education Services will start to offer a training covering VMware vCenter orchestrator called “VMware vCenter Orchestrator: Develop Workflows [V4.1]” in EMEA. This hands-on...

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