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Adding a Node to an Ootbi Cluster, and the Ports That Make It Work

Luciano Patrao — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 18:02:06 +0000

I added a second node to an Ootbi cluster in the lab this week. The flow is short and mostly gets out of your way, but a firewall rule or a certificate will decide whether it goes smoothly, so here it is with the screens in front of you. The node came up on 1.7.82.12645. ... Read more

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What Makes Object First Ootbi Different From Other Backup Appliances

Luciano Patrao — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 18:22:22 +0000

Every backup storage vendor says their product is immutable. The word is on every datasheet in the category, which means it no longer tells you anything useful on its own. So the question is narrower. Put an Ootbi next to the other appliances you would consider for the same rack slot, and what is actually ... Read more

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vSphere Standard Is Coming Back, and Proxmox Just Grew Up a Little

Luciano Patrao — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 13:07:41 +0000

This week two things happened on the same day. VMware confirmed it will release an updated vSphere Standard, and Proxmox announced 24/7 enterprise support plus a North American subsidiary. There is no indication that either was a response to the other. Together they say more about the lower end of the virtualization market than almost ... Read more

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NSX Distributed Firewall Memory Exhaustion at Scale

Luciano Patrao — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 22:29:24 +0000

As always, when I run into an issue that takes real troubleshooting before I can fix it, and the result is something others can learn from, I mark it down as a good subject for a blog post. This “NSX Distributed Firewall Memory Exhaustion at Scale” one is very much that case. We had an ... Read more

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Veeam no space: two tenants, two causes

Luciano Patrao — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 18:00:55 +0000

Second post in the Veeam Fix Series, where I take real issues I had to fix in customer environments and go through what the problem was and what the fix was. Names, IPs, and job names are dummy. The command output, error messages, and numbers are real. This one is about two tenants that reported ... Read more

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When Veeam silently falls back to NBD

Luciano Patrao — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 23:55:45 +0000

In the last few weeks I had to fix several issues for some of our customers. Some of them are good examples to share, so I will pick a few and write a few simple, short blog posts for each one about what the issue was and what the fix was. This is the first ... Read more

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Leaseweb Cloud: A European Cloud Alternative

Luciano Patrao — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 20:51:32 +0000

This is my second blog post about European public cloud services. I started this series with a deep dive into Cleura, a Swedish OpenStack-based provider. This time, in “Leaseweb Cloud: A European Cloud Alternative,” I am looking at a company much closer to home: Leaseweb, a Dutch cloud and infrastructure provider that has been operating ... Read more

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Resetting the vCenter root Password in VCF: What You Must Do in SDDC Manager Afterwards

Luciano Patrao — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 16:43:10 +0000

VMware Cloud Foundation 4.2 (management domain) Here is a scenario that looks trivial but is not. You reset the root password on your management domain vCenter. Maybe it expired, maybe you were rotating it, maybe you just did not know the old one. The reset itself works fine. And then SDDC Manager quietly breaks. The ... Read more

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Building Resilient SAP Infrastructure on VCF — Part 2: Compute and Storage

Luciano Patrao — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 20:58:56 +0000

Series: Building Resilient SAP Infrastructure on VCF In Part 1, I laid out the overall architecture: four sites, four layers of high availability, and a separate recovery site built on Veeam and Object First Ootbi. That post was the map. This blog post Building Resilient SAP Infrastructure on VCF — Part 2: Compute and Storage ... Read more

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VCF 9.1: The Features That Actually Matter If You Run VCF

Luciano Patrao — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 18:06:46 +0000

This blog post, VCF 9.1: The Features That Actually Matter If You Run VCF, is not a walkthrough of every new feature. A look at the changes that actually affect how you run the platform, from someone who does. VCF 9.1 shipped on May 5, and if you read the release notes end to end, ... Read more

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