While performing some troubleshooting with a client a few weeks ago on their vCenter 4.1 server, I learned that vCenter 4.1 actually uses a 64-bit DSN. This meant that we no longer have to go
Warning: I’m not a SAN expert but as I’ve gotten more opportunities to work in datacenter projects, I’m beginning to see more real world SAN implementations and while this doesn’t provide a complete breakdown of
I ran into various problems while deploying a new server in an ESX cluster and I hope this post will help anyone who might run into the same problem. Specifications: Server: HP ProLiant DL360 G6
We’re currently in the process of refreshing a client’s VI3 environment to vSphere 4.1 and procured a new server to add to the existing cluster. While performing the ESXi install on the new server, I
We still have a client who are still on VI3 and I had a maintenance window today to reconfigure their virtualized SQL cluster and while executing my plan, I ran into an issue with mapping
While configuring backups for a customer with Backup Exec 2010 to backup a vSphere 4 environment, we ran into multiple errors such as the following: Final error: 0xe000848c – Unable to attach to a resource.
While this error can be easily solved by reviewing the events in VI Client, I figure I should blog it anyways in case anyone was searching for this string and had ran out of ideas.
Ran into a problem a few months ago while building a MSCS (Microsoft Clustering Services) while verifying the cluster nodes when I would continue to get the following message: An error occurred while executing the
Ran into an issue installing NetApp’s Virtual Storage Console for VMware vSphere the other day on a Windows Server 2008 R2 64-bit server where the install would fail with: NetApp Virtual Storage Console for VMware
I don’t do quite as much SQL DBA tasks these days as the projects I’ve been working on at the current company aren’t as involved with SQL as the previous company I was with. With
