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Category Archives: VMware
Editing vCenter VM Settings with Hardware Version 10
When using vSphere 5.5 if you upgrade your vCenter server to VM Hardware Version 10 then you will only be able to edit it via the vSphere Web Client. If the setting you are need to edit requires the VM … Continue reading
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Moving a VMFS Volume to a Different Site
Recently I wanted to copy a VMFS volume from one site to another but the VMFS volume did not automatically mount at the new site. Using my storage array’s replication technology I replicated the LUN (containing an existing VMFS Datastore) … Continue reading
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ESXi 5.5 Hosts Not Restoring Storage Paths Following SAN Switch Failure
While performing resilience tests for a customer I identified that following the failure of a SAN switch the ESXi hosts did not restore lost storage paths once the SAN switch was brought back into service. The infrastructure in question was … Continue reading
Posted in Flex System, IBM, Storage, VMware, vSphere, XIV
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I Love PowerCLI!
I had a requirement to add an additional virtual hard disk to 50 virtual machines. This was going to be a painful job through the vSphere Client so I resorted to PowerCLI. The virtual machines all had a name starting … Continue reading
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Creating Multiple Virtual Machines with PowerCLI
I had a requirement to deploy a number of virtual machines from a template, so decided to do this from PowerShell instead of via the vSphere Client. I was happy for each of the virtual machines to be named with … Continue reading
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VMware Site Recovery Manager 5.1.x Installation
While installing VMware Site Recovery Manager 5.1.x I had an issue where the service failed to start with the following error message The setup was as follows: – vCenter Server 5.1 Update 1 on its own server SQL Server 2008 … Continue reading
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VMware Site Recovery Manager 5.1 and IBM N series (NetApp) SRA
I had an issue with VMware Site Recovery Manager 5.1 with the IBM N series SRA and suspect it would be the same with the NetApp SRA. SRM version installed 5.1.1, N series SRA version 2.0.1 installed. When discovering replicated … Continue reading
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Carefully Plan Filer Names and Volume Names when using VMware Site Recovery Manager with NetApp / IBM N series SRA
I have been struggling with an issue reprotecting a Protection Group within VMware Site Recovery Manager with the IBM N series (NetApp) Storage Replication Adapter. The first step Configure Storage to Reverse Direction would fail with “Error – Failed to … Continue reading
Posted in IBM, N series, NetApp, Site Recovery Manager, Storage, VMware
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Upgrading VMware vCenter from v5.1 to v5.1 Update 1 Multi-Site SSO
I have recently upgraded a VMware vCenter 5.1 with Multi-Site Single Sign On from version 5.1 to version 5.1 update 1. This is the process I used and some observations. I upgrade one site completely first and left it running … Continue reading
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Warning – vSphere 5 with NetApp NFS Storage
For those of you using NetApp, or IBM N series, NFS storage with VMware vSphere 5 or looking to upgrade to vSphere 5 with NetApp NFS storage beware of a NetApp bug causing the ESXi hosts to lose connection to … Continue reading
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