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Paolo Valsecchi
Paolo Valsecchi
Cloud and Virtualization Architect and System Engineer. Paolo is the author of nolabnoparty.com. A VCP-DCV and vExpert, he holds elite VMCE and Veeam Vanguard status. Paolo specializes in data protection, disaster recovery, and vSphere infrastructure, delivering high-authority technical guides for enterprise virtualization and backup solutions.
Paolo Valsecchi
  • Paolo Valsecchi
  • February 13, 2020

Upgrade AD FS 3.0 to Windows Server 2016/2019

Everybody knows Microsoft is one of the flagships of industry, and as an enterprise with such a reputation, they intend to keep it up. Yet another new upgrade shows how you can find out for yourself in practice what new can offer Active Directory Federation Services for Windows Server 2019!
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Paolo Valsecchi
  • Paolo Valsecchi
  • October 31, 2019

vSphere 6.7: hot migrate VMs to different clusters with vMotion

Not every company owns a sophisticated infrastructure packed with shared storage, virtual SANs, NVMe, etc. Migrating systems, especially VMs, in an average IT environment could create workload disruptions because you’d have to stall other processes. Finally, however, those days are over: vMotion can migrate your VMs while keeping all systems active and operational.
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Paolo Valsecchi
  • Paolo Valsecchi
  • July 4, 2019

vCSA connected to dvSwitch is unaccessible after restore

VMware provides its clients with multiple useful features and tools, one of them being vCenter Server Appliance (vCSA). It is a preconfigured Linux virtual machine, designed specifically for the running VMware vCenter Server. Admittedly, that makes your life a lot easier, which is why you would not want to lose a connection to a virtual machine. However, that is what happens when your VMware hypervisor is configured with a Distributed Switch (dvSwitch).
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Paolo Valsecchi
  • Paolo Valsecchi
  • February 28, 2019

Veeam: re-map MoRef ID of protected VMs when replacing the vCenter Server

“Object with reference <vmname> was not found in the hierarchy cache.” Have you ever met such an error message during replacing the vCenter Server configured in Veeam Backup & Replication? Or maybe in the case of an inventory change in the vCenter? A similar message pops up when a Virtual Machine’s MoRef changes. To complete backup jobs successfully, you need to re-map the MoRef ID of protected VMs, namely to keep same MoRef IDs for all protected virtual machines. How should that be done?
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Paolo Valsecchi
  • Paolo Valsecchi
  • December 20, 2018

Office 365 update AD FS SSL certificate with Azure AD Connect

The flawless operation of your Office 365 infrastructure directly depends on the updates installed on time. An SSL certificate provides secure communication between Office 365 components. If it expires, your infrastructure becomes unprotected. This is where the Azure AD Connect tool comes in. With its help, you can update the SSL certificate for both AD FS and WAP Servers quickly and easily.
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Paolo Valsecchi
  • Paolo Valsecchi
  • October 11, 2018

Migrate On-Premises Virtual Machines to AWS

Migration of virtual machines is an important feature of virtualization technology that allows applications to move transparently along with their runtime environments between physical machines. AWS Server Migration Service (SMS) allows the migration of one or multiple on-premises virtual machines to AWS in an easy way from a single pane of glass. Plan, automate, and track step-by-step replication of running server volumes with just one tool — the AWS console!
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Paolo Valsecchi
  • Paolo Valsecchi
  • July 18, 2018

VMware vSphere: Handy tips on working with Content Libraries

Typically, Content Libraries are used for keeping VM templates, vApp templates, ISO files, and all that jazz you typically share within your network. With such capability, that thing makes vSphere admins’ life easier allowing them to ensure consistency within the infrastructure under workloads. So, if you have never used it before, it may be high time to learn more about Content Libraries. Learn the basics of working with Content Libraries in VMware vSphere in the full article by Paolo Valsecchi.
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Paolo Valsecchi
  • Paolo Valsecchi
  • May 3, 2018

Veeam Backup & Replication 9.5 – Protection Groups

Protection Groups is a new feature introduced with the Update 3 of Veeam Backup & Replication 9.5 and allows the administrators to backup physical servers and workstations through the use of Agents. In this article will be explained the procedure to create Protection Groups and their use in the backup jobs.
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