VDR is a great backup appliance for the SMB. It’s free, which is always a great price point, however it isn’t as reliable as some of the “big boy” solutions that exist out there. I recently had an issue with VDR where I needed to do a restore on a Read more…
Recently I have had some issues with HardDisks needing to be consolidated on VMs. I believe this is mostly due to VDR sometimes not handling snapshots the way it should, but I am sure there are other common ways it happens as well. So what do I mean by disks needing to Read more…
So let’s say you want to change the credentials that the VUM Plugin has been registered with VMware with…. Why would you want to do this one might ask. Well lets say your company is restructuring the service accounts that are used for various programs and apps that they Read more…
So was running into an interesting issue this past week that I thought I would write up a post about. I randomly and for no reason(seemingly at least) started seeing high cpu ready times at random times which was greatly affecting performance for one of my environments. This particular environment Read more…
Just yesterday I restarted management services/agent on a host to try to resolve an unrelated issue. After everything seemingly restarted ok. I could no longer connect my host to vcenter and I couldn’t directly connect to my host with the vSphere Client. It kept giving me an error to this Read more…
Recently I have had two servers that have been giving me a hard time when I try to back them up using VDR. These are a couple of the errors I am seeing and this one… These two VMs happen to both be Windows 2008 with Sql Server 2008. Now Read more…
A while ago my vCenter Service shutdown and I could not get it restarted. I looked in the event logs of the server and found this guy Log Name: Application Source: MSSQL$SQLEXP_VIM Date: 11/14/2011 6:02:25 PM Event ID: 9002 Task Category: (2) Level: Error Keywords: Classic User: SYSTEM Computer: Description: Read more…
Wow, First I think that was the longest title I have had thus far for a blog post. Anyway, when updating/upgrading VMware Tools with VMware Update Manager the error I run into the most is just that VMwareToolsUpgrader.exe needs to be deleted from the target pc. I always get very Read more…
For the past couple weeks I have been using a nice one-liner to find out the VMs in my environment have the upgrade policy that I want them to have. I almost always personally want my virtual machines to upgrade vmware tools on a powercycle. It makes it easier for Read more…
You just updated vCenter and VUM to the latest vSphere 5, now you get to take a break and have a drink, right? Nope! You get to now upgrade your hosts to the latest version. Fortunately this is a super easy process. Let’s get started. Connect your vSphere Client to Read more…