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Backing up a VM with a PCIe device attached to it with Veeam

2023-04-032019-10-25 by Eric Schewe

In a previous post I talked about installing a Quadro P620 into my ESXi host so I could attach it to my Plex VM. This worked out great except my Veeam backups started failing. There is a limitation in VMware vSphere where you can’t take a Snapshot of a VM with a PCIe device passed … Read more

Categories Uncategorized Tags Dell, Hardware, nVidia, vCenter, Veeam, VMware, vSphere 10 Comments

Adding a Quadro P620 to my Plex VM

2023-01-022019-10-24 by Eric Schewe

I currently run Plex in a CentOS 7 VM (on top of vSphere 6.7) with two 2vCPUs and 2GB of vRAM. When I needed to transcode video to sync it to a mobile device for a trip the process takes a while and consumes a lot of CPU on the VM. I could just add … Read more

Categories Uncategorized Tags Benchmarks, Dell, Hardware, Linux, nVidia, Plex, vCenter, VMware, vSphere 7 Comments
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