After noticing that I get asked: Why can’t I expand the provisioned size of a hard disk for a virtual machine on ESXi/ESX? … by clients on an average of twice a month, I thought
There are a lot items required to do after you virtualize physical servers such as uninstalling the hardware specific applications and removing hidden devices but one of the items I find people tend to miss
While this warning messaging doesn’t really affect a virtualized physical host after you’ve successfully P2V-ed it, I personally prefer clean Windows event logs because it makes troubleshooting errors in the future better. Problem You’ve successfully
One of issues I’ve come across over the past few years when virtualizing HP ProLiant servers was that I would continuously get the message: At least one service or driver failed during system startup …
As most of us know, expanding a Windows Server 2003 system volume C drive isn’t as easy to do as it is in Windows Server 2008. With Windows Server 2008, you can simply expand the
The client I’ve been working with recently piloted the following phones: Snom 300 – http://www.snom.com/en/products/ip-phones/snom-300/ Polycom SoundPoint IP 335 – http://www.polycom.com/products/voice/desktop_solutions/soundpoint/desk_phones/soundpoint_ip335.html The client’s feedback on the Snom 300 phone was that they did not like
As I noted in my earlier blog posts, I was extremely excited to get SmartSIP installed and configured so we can begin testing. The documentation I received from NET was very thorough in how to
Due to some scheduling issues with a colleague of mine, I had to fill in for him to do the initial setup of a NetApp FAS3140 with an active/active controller setup. I’ve done this in
As indicated in one of my earlier posts, we’ve been working closely with the NET engineers to get the next release of SmartSIP and after receiving it last week, we were eager to get the
I ran into an interesting problem a few weeks ago when I was moving a demo VMware View 4.5 environment to a new Cisco UCS cluster. The new cluster I was moving it to was
