Technical guides Archives

RP4VM error: “Cannot protect a virtual machine that is already protected”

By Muhammad Adel July 20, 2022

I had an issue that happened repeatedly with RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines. It usually happened with new VMs that were cloned from templates and/or other VM. When I try to replicate it, I found this error message

vSAN Capacity planning and calculations

By Muhammad Adel May 21, 2022

When we start a new project, I got the same question from top managers, what is the available capacity in our vSAN cluster? in fact, the hidden question was: what is the raw vs used capacity of the vSAN cluster, and how to plan our project.

Cannot Back up a vSphere Native Key Provider

By Muhammad Adel March 15, 2022

This is really weird that after creating a native key provider on my Center server appliance (V7), I was waiting - stuck- in this stage:

“Update installation failed, vCenter server is non-operational” – Super easy fix

By Muhammad Adel October 21, 2021

I was freaked out when I saw this message. Usually, the vCenter server appliance upgrade process is easy and simple (just next - next - finish). but this time wasn't.…

Runecast Analyzer 5.1………..What to expect

By Muhammad Adel July 12, 2021

On July 8th, Runecast announced new -and huge- features included in their 5.1 release. The new updates were expected and if you are familiar with this product, you will definitely see that coming.

vCenter reboots at “GRUB!”

By Muhammad Adel June 3, 2021

vCenter stuck at GRUB!

Veeam v11 and Data Domain … The missing part

By Muhammad Adel April 24, 2021

Regarding to Veeam, I consider myself first mover in adapting new Veeam upgrades. And once V11 released, I planned to upgrade as fast as I can.

Runecast Analyzer 5.0 is now GA

By Muhammad Adel April 1, 2021

Runecast Analyzer V5.0 comes with impressive new features and support to Microsoft Azure.

vSAN cluster gets full – Explained and how to recover

By Muhammad Adel February 16, 2021

A little investigation, I found something called "unassociated vSAN objects". It could happen for many reasons. For example -in my case-, The replication solution I use accidently left those objects.