Advanced transport modes (HotAdd and SAN) fail over to NBD mode

Challenge Advanced transport modes Virtual Appliance HotAdd or Direct Storage access may not work, failing over to the NBD transport mode instead. If you are seeing error "Cannot use advanced transport modes, failing over to NBD " you should check the HotAdd attacher agent log default location -...

KB2903: vSphere 5.5/6.0 VM Backup fails with "Exception of type 'Veeam.Backup.AgentProvider.AgentClosedException' was thrown"

Challenge When backing up a VM within an environment running vSphere 5.5 or vSphere 6.0 the job fails with: Exception of type 'Veeam.Backup.AgentProvider.AgentClosedException' was thrown Copy Version Requirement The error listed above has many causes. Directly interpreted, it means that a process...