Today I had a customer requesting that their users maintain their most recently used programs list in the Windows Start Menu. Research showed we need to save the following folders: %APPDATA%\Microsoft\Windows\Recent %APPDATA%\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch\User Pinned\Start Menu …and the following registry settings: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\UserAssist HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\StartPage2 Here is a quick screenshot of how these settings can be saved […]
VMware ESXi Storage vMotion fails with error The method is disabled by ‘vm-3556’
This week a customer called me. He was unable to Storage vMotion a VM from one datastore to another in his VMware ESXi 5.1 environment. The error shown was: The method is disabled by ‘vm-3556’ My first suggestion was to perform a regular vMotion to a different host and then retry. Unfortunately this did not […]
@Veeam is giving away great prizes: VMworld/TechEd/Surface/iPad!
Veeam is holding an on-going raffle from October 2012 trough August 2013 giving away. FANTASTIC prizes such as: Full conference pass to VMware USA 2013 Full conference pass to Tech Ed 2013 Microsoft Surface for Windows RT New iPad 4G Each and every month until August 2013 there will be found a winner. Luckily trying […]
Veeam B&R Error: Client error: VDDK thread terminated
Last week I was onsite with a customer deploying Veeam Backup & Replication 6.5. One of their remote sites had just one VMware vSphere ESXi host running standalone. To simply their setup we decided to add it to the vCenter. We then proceeded to deploy a proxy on a virtual server on the remote site […]
60 days 2 MCSE completed
I finally passed 70-246 “Monitoring and Operating a Private Cloud with System Center 2012”, which was the final exam on my path to achieving MCSE: Private Cloud. It has been just 40 days since I signed up but it feels like a long journey, because this is obviously not something one learns overnight. Fortunately I have […]
VMware vSphere Web Client error The Requested resource () is not available
Today I was at a customer deploying a new setup using VMware vSphere ESXi 5.1 Update 1. Everything new! We decided to install all of the vCenter services such as Single Sign On, Inventory Service and Web client onto a new Windows Server 2012 VM. Everything went fine, until I attempted to connect to the […]
VMware vCenter Server error 26002. Setup failed to register VMware vCenter Server to VMware vCenter Inventory Service
Last week I had trouble upgrading a customers VMware vCenter server from 5.0.0 build 623860 to 5.1b. To be sure I had, of course, taken a snapshot of the VM before starting the upgrade, but I thought I would still see if I could fix it since some of my readers might have a physical vCenter […]
VMware vCenter Single Sign On install error 32010. Failed to create database users
Today I was helping a customer upgrade vCenter from 5.0.0 build 623373 to 5.1.0 build 947939. First step was to install the new VMware vCenter Single Sign On service. However during installation I was prompted with the following error: Error 32010. Failed to create database users. There can be several reasons for this failure. For more information, […]
Veeam Backup & Replication Cloud Edition Part 1: Adding Cloud Storage
Veeam recently released an add-on product named Veeam Cloud Backup to their existing Backup & Replication software. I will put together some posts on how to easily get started with Veeam Cloud Backup and send your backups into the cloud 🙂 The concept of Cloud Backup is primarily to provide an alternative to tape backup by […]
Dell PowerConnect 6224 There was an error during decompression… resetting the switch
Recently a customer requested help to firmware upgrade a Dell PowerConnect 6224 switch. He had attempted to upgrade it from TFTP and HTTP, but unfortunately both ways he would recieve error “There was an error during decompression… resetting the switch” when booting the new firmware. He could still boot the old firmware. Since the customer […]