Migration to VEEAM When I started with my current employer we used a backup software called StoreServer. I was responsible for getting the tapes from the tape library and deliver them to the Controller to take offsite to a bank vault. In the afternoon I was responsible for putting tape back into the tape library,. After… 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 »
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 »
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 »
How to remove vmkdump files in ESXi 5.5 To remove the coredump files you need to connect to an ESXi host. After you have connect runt he following command esxcli system coredump file list Only the owner of the .dumpfile can remove it. We need to find the owner of the file. vmkfstools -D /vmfs/volumes/…/xxxx.dumpfile… Read More »
VMware restart Agents services I have had to do this a couple of times in the last couple of week on ESXi 5.1. ESXi 5.5 seems to keep these services in line a little better. Here is just a quick walk though. Log into the vsphere through SSH Service mgmt-vmware restart Wait for… Read More »
VEEAM V7 upgrade to V8 VEEAM v8 was released on November 6th. The current version of VEEAM I have installed is 7.0.0.871. This was the latest patch before the V8 release. Requirements: Downloaded copy of VEEAM V8 Valid License (Trial License would be needed for a full install) Ok let us get started. Open the… Read More »