Acronis Storage Gateway is the HCI solution from Acronis. The solution, which is provided to partners, allows to build a cluster of storage and computing nodes that can become both the target for the Acronis CyberProtect service, that is an on-premise storage solution for backups, but also an hyper-converged solution that allows to deploy a wide range of storage and computing services, including virtual machines.

In this post we will describe how to perform a typical maintenance operation for the Backup Storage service, that is the removal of a node from the cluster. It happens, as in our case, when you want to decommission a node that you’re going to replace either [...]

We have been fighting for months with a weird behaviour where Windows Server 2022 all of sudden was becoming no more accessible via RDP after a while. That was happening only on some VMs, not all of them.

The symptom was simple: you were trying to connect to a Windows Server 2022 server hosted in a VM, the RDP connection screen was showing to you the classic certificate warning and when you decide to go on server was logging you in for a very short time then the connection crashed. We were able to login via Hyper-V console but RDP was no-go. Nothing was working while the fact you were correctly logging in was proved by the fact that another session started from Hyper-V [...]

Capita di avere la necessità di cancellare la history dei comandi Powershell inviati con un account. A noi, per esempio, è capitato quando abbiamo dovuto preparare dei template per le virtual machine dei nostri clienti ed era necessario attivare un software prima di completare il template.

Sfortunatamente questa attivazione avveniva per mezzo console e bisogna quindi inserire un comando con il codice di attivazione. Questo faceva si che il codice potesse poi essere visibile per gli utenti che usavano quel template che potevano accedere alla history semplicemente premendo PgUp. Se si cerca una soluzione si scopre che Powershell ha un comando per la cancellazione della [...]

Microsoft released Windows Server 2022 a few weeks ago. It did so earlier than expected, which is pretty odd, but it seems that the development of new features was already complete and mature so there was no point to wait a few months more. The last sentence pretty much explains the current status of Windows Server: so few changes, albeit interesting ones, that the product can be released months earlier than planned and without much fanfare.

While generally speaking the development of new features and functionalities for server applications mostly moved out of the base operating system and while we can also concede that Windows Server has many features at the OS level so [...]

Qualche giorno fa abbiamo riscontrato uno strano problema su un paio di server dopo avere aggiornato gli agent di Acronis. La console non consentirva più l’esecuzione del piano di backup, sia in modo automatico che manuale, segnalando che l’agent non era più registrato. Sembrava molto strano visto che avevamo effettuato aggiornamenti degli agent diverse volte in passato senza riscontrare alcun problema ma questa volta gli agent non riuscivano più a [...]