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How to Deploy Sophos for Virtual Environments – VMware

How to Deploy Sophos for Virtual Environments – VMware

Sophos for Virtual Environments delivers central security for VMware or Hyper-V virtual machines. Sophos VE provides real-time protection at peak performance by off-loading threat detection to a centralized security virtual machine. In this walk-through, we will be installing the Sophos Security VM in a VMware environment, deploy the Guest VM agent to protected machines, and test real-time protection. Install Sophos Security VM To begin, download the Sophos for Virtual Environments executable from Sophos Central. Run the SVE_ESXi_c_sfx.exe from a machine…

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AutoLab vSphere 6.7 Deployment on Ravello

AutoLab vSphere 6.7 Deployment on Ravello

A few months back, AutoLab announced the release of version 3.0 which added support for vSphere 6.5 and 6.7 as well as Windows Server 2016. LabGuides.com provides a great vSphere Deployment Guide for multiple platforms (Workstation, Fusion, Player, ESXi, Ravello). In this post, I wanted to focus solely on a vSphere 6.7 lab deployment utilizing Ravello as the underlying platform. Background – If you are unfamiliar with AutoLab, it is a deployment kit which automates the build of a nested…

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Install or Upgrade VMware ESXi from CIMC HTML5 UI

Install or Upgrade VMware ESXi from CIMC HTML5 UI

Beginning in Cisco Integrated Management Controller version 3.0(1), Cisco rolled out support for their new HTML5 Web UI and vKVM. This removed the requirement for both Flash and Java to operate CIMC and KVM. In this post, we will take a look at a VMware ESXi upgrade utilizing the HTML based CIMC and KVM console. Attach ESXi Image via CIMC KVM From the CIMC home page, click Launch KVM and select HTML based KVM. Once the KVM session has launched,…

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Shrink Windows Volume and Backing Hyper-V VHDX

Shrink Windows Volume and Backing Hyper-V VHDX

For the Hyper-V admin, you may find yourself needing to shrink a Windows volume and reclaim space from the underlying VHDX. In the following scenario, this is possible as the environment is using dynamically expanding disks. Although dynamically expanding virtual hard disks provide various benefits, they require manual intervention to reclaim space. Luckily, it’s not only possible but fairly easy to shrink Basic Windows volumes and reclaim the space capacity from the backing Hyper -V Virtual Hard Disk (VHDX). Note –…

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Veeam VSSControl Error Backing up VMware VM

Veeam VSSControl Error Backing up VMware VM

I recently utilized VMware Converter for a Microsoft Hyper-V to VMware conversion. After the conversion, Veeam backups started failing on the converted machines due to a VSSControl Error. The error stated: Failed to prepare guest for hot backup. Error: VSSControl: -2147212529 Backup job failed. Discovery phase failed. Cannot add volumes to the snapshot set. Cannot add volume to the set of volumes that should be shadowed. VSS error: VSS_E_UNEXPECTED_PROVIDER_ERROR. Code:0x8004230f  As per Veeam, this error is due to a third party…

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