Lately, I have observed an issue during the back-up with the Symantec Back-up Agent for VMware Virtual Infrastructure. The back-up attempt fails stating that it was unable to quiescent a file system and an Event ID 34113 is logged in the Windows application log. According to the Symantec article TECH128039, this issue can be solved [...]
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Uninstall Volume Shadow Copy Service Support and Shared Folders from VMware Tools
Posted in Tools, VMware, vSphere on 29 June 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Assign a static MAC Address to a Virtual Machine on VMware infrastructure.
Posted in VMware, vCenter, vSphere, Converter, P2V on 9 June 2011 | Leave a Comment »
A few days ago I was P2V’ing some servers for a customer. The servers had application license bound to the MAC address of the NIC adapter so I had to change the auto-generated MAC address to a static one. Follow these steps to change the MAC address from auto-generated to static. First, remove the VM [...]
Dell PowerEdge R710 BIOS settings for VMware vSphere 4.x.
Posted in Dell, ESXi 4, PowerEdge, VMware, vSphere on 14 April 2011 | 15 Comments »
Recently, I was involved in a big infrastructure refreshment project for one of our customers across different locations in Europe. The old hosts were replaced with the brand new Dell PowerEdge R710 hosts with Intel X5650 processor and 96 GB of memory. All hosts were installed with the vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi). Here are some best [...]
Configuring software iSCSI Round Robin MPIO on ESX 4.x.
Posted in ESX 4, VMware, vSphere on 15 October 2010 | 3 Comments »
This is just a quick post about configuring software iSCSI Round Robin MPIO (2:1 mapping) on an ESX 4.x server. Here is a quick overview of the procedure: Create VMkernel ports on a vSwitch Configure the VMkernel ports Assign physical NIC’s to the vSwitch Configure the uplinks on the vSwitch Enable software iSCSI initiator Find [...]
Boot ESX 4 from SAN on a failover LUN – Lessons learned.
Posted in ESXi 4, vCenter, VMware, vSphere on 7 September 2010 | 6 Comments »
Is it possible to boot an ESX 4 host from a LUN that has been “failed over” to another physical location? Yes, it is possible but there are some serious caveats by doing this. Please consider the following scenario: 2 datacenters: site A production (active), site B failover (passive) In each site an identical SAN array; [...]
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