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During some disaster recovery work, I deployed a Proxmox cluster to rapidly restore VMs from Veeam but ran into a restore target issue. Veeam’s Proxmox plugin can back up VMs running on local-zfs just fine. Restoring them is the problem: Veeam won’t use a ZFS pool as …
Context I ran into an unusual OSLogin failure while migrating a long-running server into a new GCP project. The request was to migrate from one old GCP project into multiple new ones, one per environment. This included several VMs with dev and prod versions.
On July 3rd, 2024, I ended up dealing with one of the messier Kubernetes situations I’ve encountered: upgrading an EKS cluster that had effectively been left behind for years. The push to upgrade wasn’t optional as the cluster version was approaching the end of extended support …