Wednesday, July 16, 2014

Veeam Backup Free Edition Rant

I wanted to try this 'free' tool the ads for which were poking my eyes for a long time, but :


They want not only my phone but they do not accept 'public' email address. Also if you think that in the following screen:

you can sign in using Google+ account for example - think again (and read the underlined text). You will need to create account anyway. I don't want to link my Google+ account I want to log in with it and download the damn tool. In fact if the tool is free - I don't want to log in at all.

My conclusion: I am not the target audience. Whatever.

EDIT: Found it on Softpedia (no registration required).
EDIT 2: Softpedia version is 7.0.0.690 which does not support vSphere 5.5 . You need to download at least R2 patch which leads to the registration problem.

PS. Tried some alternatives:
1. NAKIVO Free Edition - does not support Free ESXi
2. Trilead VM Explorer - does not support latest version of ESXi 5.5 (2014-07-01) , but looks promising and probably when updated will support it.

EDIT 3: Latest 5.0.031.0 works and looks it will do :)

For the moment decided to use WinSCP + SSH on the host. Speed was around 100Mbit which works for me.

PS. After switching to 1000Mbit  had to enable rc4 and blowfish ssh ciphers on the server to get more than 20MB/s. By default only aes ciphers are enabled.



Monday, July 7, 2014

CM HAF XB EVO and Corsair HX1000




The distance between HDD cage and PSU is 40mm. I removed hotplug board - it is getting bad reviews anyway. HX1000 is 200mm long modular PSU.