Recently I have had some issues with HardDisks needing to be consolidated on VMs. I believe this is mostly due to VDR sometimes not handling snapshots the way it should, but I am sure there are other common ways it happens as well. So what do I mean by disks needing to Read more…
So let’s say you want to change the credentials that the VUM Plugin has been registered with VMware with…. Why would you want to do this one might ask. Well lets say your company is restructuring the service accounts that are used for various programs and apps that they Read more…
I don’t normally have a post like this but this time I just can’t help myself. Last week I had decided that I was finally going to setup VMware VASA for my Equallogic, so I started doing research to find out more. Previously I just haven’t had anytime to work Read more…
So was running into an interesting issue this past week that I thought I would write up a post about. I randomly and for no reason(seemingly at least) started seeing high cpu ready times at random times which was greatly affecting performance for one of my environments. This particular environment Read more…
Oh man this has been a crazy year! The site actually turned 1 on Feb 15, so I am slightly behind the ball, but I have been crazy busy! Looking at the picture on the right… if nothing else the site atleast looks better and slicker than what it used to. It Read more…
Just yesterday I restarted management services/agent on a host to try to resolve an unrelated issue. After everything seemingly restarted ok. I could no longer connect my host to vcenter and I couldn’t directly connect to my host with the vSphere Client. It kept giving me an error to this Read more…
Yep, as you can tell from the title which is aptly named. I got my VCP5!!! I was super happy because I got a 383 on it. Granted I know it isn’t a 400+ score, but it is an awesome feeling passing by significantly more than just the hair on your chinny Read more…
So unless you live under a rock, (and if you do live under one, good for you and welcome back,) Voting has started today for the Top Virtualization Blogs of 2011. This voting takes place on V-Sphere Land, which I am sure is different things to different people, but to Read more…
Recently I have had two servers that have been giving me a hard time when I try to back them up using VDR. These are a couple of the errors I am seeing and this one… These two VMs happen to both be Windows 2008 with Sql Server 2008. Now Read more…
I figured I would join in on the fun. 2011 was a very different year for me both professionally and personally. Professionally it was the first full year I have had at my current job. That’s awesome because this is my first “big boy” professional job that I have actually Read more…