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EqualLogic reclaim space from VMware ESXi datastore
Today I visited a customer to perform a health check. Their system consisted of VMware ESXi hosts running on EqualLogic SAN storage. The volumes on the EqualLogic were thin provisioned and one of them were running ALMOST full plus a good way beyond the warning limit. As you can see the usage is exceeding the […]
Attending #DellSF #fluidforward Think Tank – Please join in!
I was fortunate enough to be invited to particiate in the Dell Storage Forum 2012 Fluid Forward Think Tank by Alison Krause of Dell. This year the conference is taking place in Paris. If you are unable to come participate then please join in on the Twitter conversation using the #fluidforward hash tag and also […]
Dell PowerConnect switch stack missing ports
A customer called me while configuring two new Dell PowerConnect 6224 switches in a stack. After stacking the switches no ports on unit 2 would link up. The web interface also looked wierd: As you can see above the switch looks like it has no ports at all. As we can read in the Dell […]
Attending Microsoft Essential Presentation Skills course MCT
This week I have been attending the Microsoft Essential Presentation Skills course. Originally I was inspired to attend this course after reading about the opportunities with becoming a Microsoft Certified Trainer in a blog post by Ben Bedo on the Trainsignal website on how to become a MCT. Ben referred to a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet with a […]
Last chance to vote for VMworld 2013 sessions – Vote now!
If you are going to VMworld 2013 either in USA or Europe you should vote on your favorite sessions to ensure you can actually attend them 🙂 First step is to create an account. Last step is to sign in and you are good to go! Remember to check the FAQ is you are in […]
Making Windows Start Menu Most Recently Used Programs List persistant on non-persistant desktop with RES
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 […]