The other day a consultant came by my desk. He had a problem, the 400 VMs we just move from the customer site in to our datacenter; The backup jobs were failing for most of the VMs. He had looked into it and it turns out that Symantec Netbackup, which is what is used, is case sensitive and the VM names were all a mix of low, high and low and high cases. So the backup team had to recreate the backup jobs, but before they did that, the consultant asked if it wasn’t possible to rename all of the […]