A client contacted us for help while trying to P2V a Cisco Unity server but keep getting the following error after the process successfully starts and fails: Conversion process failed @ 2:10pm (2010-04-09 14:10:17.174 ‘P2V’
Seeing how there hasn’t been a lot of information for troubleshooting VMware’s Capacity Planner assessment application, I thought I’d share an experience I had with Solaris servers on a project a few months ago. The
These are the notes I took during the first time I got to set up a non redundant UCS with 1 fabric interconnect, 1 IOM and 1 chassis. Please note that this is just a
I had to leave SunGard today in Mississauga and head back to an office for an interview for a potential hire. The position was for a Microsoft SC and since the candidate indicated he knew
Ran into this problem during the preproduction deployment at a client when I converted a DVD that the client provided me into an ISO. “A required CD/DVD drive device driver is missing. If you have
Every wonder what happens when you accidentally activate a new firmware on the subordinate AND the primary fabric interconnect for UCS at the same time? The manual: UpgradingCiscoUCSFrom1.2.1To1.3.1.pdf specifically states that you should activate the
This post is actually a copy and paste of a post I made on the Cisco forum when I was updating a redundant Cisco UCS deployment for a client. See this link for the assistant
This may be common knowledge but I always forget this after a few weeks: How do I know when the server was restarted? I’ve always gone with what I call the “lazy” way by just
It’s easy to figure out how to do this but this has always been one of those “Windows Server 2008 R1” default settings that drives me crazy after I complete a clean install of the
This may seem outright obvious for all the professionals out there that work with networking equipment but for server guys such as myself, I had to search for this information before I was able to
