IBM DS3500 SAN Staging Mapping and Host Setup This will finish my series on the IBM DS3500 setup. I hope you have enjoyed the entries and have found them useful. Add another vSphere Open up the Subsystem Management Go to the Mapping Tab Right Click on Storage Subsystem XXXXXX_DS3512 Define->Host Define Host Name Define Port… Read More »
This document explains how to update the fabric OS of a Brocade/IBM SAN fiber channel switch The model of the SAN fiber channel switch upgraded in this example is a SAN24B-4 (2498-B24) Download the Fabric OS To get the fabric OS upgrades go to the IBM website at this link – Support for IBM System… Read More »
Change LSI SAS to Paravirtual (PVSCSI) for a Windows guest About a month ago I was listening to the #vBrownBag Follow-Up Virtualizing Microsoft SQL w David Klee (@kleegeek). He was explaining on to tune Microsoft SQL for the virtual environment. There were a couple of points that I bought out of his session. Create Windows partitions… Read More »
Traffic shaping and Network I/O Control (NIOC) My current project is to move our network infrastructure within out virtual environment to the 10GB network. I will be removing twelve 1GB network cables per host. Each host will have two 16GB Fiber Channel cards and two 10GB ethernet cards. I will have a total of four, not twelve… Read More »
How to set up the Software iSCSI initiator in ESXi Go to the Inventory Hosts and Clusters Configuration Storage Adapters screen Click the iSCSI Software Adapter, if it’s not present simply click the Add button on the top right of the screen to add the iSCSI Software Adapter. As you can see here that no paths have been configured, click… Read More »
VMware vDS (VMware Distributed switches) Setup In this post I want to show you the reasons for using vDS if you have an Enterprise Plus license. First is why… The vDS only has to be configured once on the vCenter system. With standard switches you have to configure the ports and NICs on every ESXI/vSphere… Read More »
How to fix the Exchange 2010 Internal Hostname certificate Error I am going to bet you have seen an error similar to this. Let’s assume your Exchange server is known as “cpexchange2010.domain.local” internally but the external name is “mail.domain.com”. Solution You need to add the (“domain.com”) to your internal IP and setup a record to point… Read More »
Upgrading VMware product suite(s) in the order that is required by VMware This will be a short post on what the upgrade order is on VMware productions and Suites. If you only have the base products like vCenter and ESX you will only need to look for two products and see which production is required to… Read More »
Solve GPO replication problems I have seen this issue multiple time when replicating between Windows 2003 and Windows 2008. Windows 2008 and Windows 2012. If your domain controllers are not the same OS/version this could be an issue. Here is a quick and simple way to fix your replication nightmares. Open command prompt on… Read More »
Install flash on Windows 2012 Server I ran across an issues when I install Horizon View 6.0 on a windows 2012 R2 server. I open the View Administrator console and was greeted with you have to enable flash because Windows 2012 already has it loaded in the system. You need to enable Desktop Experience. Below are… Read More »