I ran into an interesting issue while installing VMware Site Recovery Manager version 4.0.0-192921 on Windows Server 2008 64-bit R2 where it would hang on “Please wait while setup is initializing”…” The setup was left
I received a call today from a colleague today as he was deploying a new ESXi cluster for a client where 1 of the hosts has the following warning: “Issue detected on “esx1.domain.local” in “Cluster
I was out to a client’s site to close off a project with a list of items that I wrote down to completed. As 3:30p.m. came around the corner and everything was happily chugging along,
I had an extremely bad end to a work week last Friday when one issue lead to another and after accumulating multiple small issues, a UCS and VMware infrastructure that was happily chugging along fell
The following lists the steps required for configuring vNetwork Distributed Switches on a UCS with a Menlo card (2 NICs): 1. The New vNetwork Distributed Switch… option is always grayed out if you are not
We currently have a redundant UCS setup with: 1. 2 x Fabric interconnects2. 2 x Chassis3. 2 x 3750e What we’ve noticed for the past 2 months is that the northbound connection from the fabric
A client gave me a call one evening asking me why he wasn’t able to access vCenter. The vCenter server was virtualized and run in a 7 ESX 4.0 host cluster on a redundant UCS
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
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
