A quick post for an issue I had with installing the VMware client integration plugin
Read MoreInstalling VMware Integration Plugin may install something else!
Posted by Brian Farrugia on 2nd November 2015Control Datacore SSV Write Cache with APC PCNS
Posted by Brian Farrugia on 1st November 2015
The post describes the process of setting up PCNS to disable or enable write cache on Datacore SAN Symphony V when the UPS is on Battery or Power is Restored Events.
Read MoreAltaro – VSS Provider Override
Posted by Brian Farrugia on 20th September 2015This week I was evaluating Altaro VM-Backup because I read that they had released version 6, which now supports backing up virtual machine running on the VMware hyper visor. Apart from that, I needed to deploy Altaro VM-Backup to a customer of ours for whom we configured a Hyper-V Failover Cluster.For this reason I first tested…
Read MoreSlow Hyper-V Shared Nothing Live Migration
Posted by Brian Farrugia on 9th September 2015A customer of ours purchased a new server to create a Hyper-V cluster with the existing server. We decided to create a single node cluster and migrate the vms to the new server so we could re-install the “old” server (Host 1) and join it to the cluster. The customer had only one switch(we know!)…
Read MoreJava Error while installing DELL ITDT
Posted by Brian Farrugia on 19th August 2015While installing ITDT on Windows server 2012 R2, I encountered the error : Windows Error 2 occured while loading the Java VM. Things I tried include: installing both 64 and 32-bit java versions. set the System environment variable $PATH to point to both java architecture types What worked was running the command manually in a command…
Read MoreVeeam Off-Host Backup Proxy with DELL Equallogic
Posted by Brian Farrugia on 2nd June 2015This Post will describe the process required to configure your components for Hyper-V Off-Host Backup with Dell Equallogic and Veeam Backup and Replication.
Read MoreSelf-inflicted vCSA 6 upgrade issues
Posted by Brian Farrugia on 11th May 2015Today I was excited to upgrade my vCSA 5.5 to vCSA 6.0 and eventually the whole lab to vSphere 6.0. I had issues upgrading the vCSA. The upgrade failed during the export phase with “Internal error occurs during export”. Looked around and found the VMware vSphere 6.0 Release Notes mention the below: “Workaround for Internal error…
Read MoreInstalling Equallogic MEM with Windows vSphere CLI
Posted by Brian Farrugia on 9th May 2015The article goes through the process of installing the Equallogic Multipathing Extension Module by using the VMware vSphere CLI for windows. It also explains how you can configure the host to connect to the SAN with the –bestpractice option.
Read MoreDell PowerVault RD1000 – Not Ejecting Media
Posted by Brian Farrugia on 30th March 2015
This is a brief guide to replace a broken gear on the Dell Powervault RD1000. The faulty gear would prevent from Loading /Ejecting the cartridges from the RDX drive.
Read MoreMikrotik IP/Cloud and multiple ISPs
Posted by Brian Farrugia on 18th February 2015Sometimes you have a customer who has more than one internet connection and you want to setup Mikrotik Cloud to update the DDNS name to point to a specific IP and “failover” to another IP should the primary link fail. For example your WEB and VPN services are hosted on different Internet links, with fail-over,…
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