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 […]
Review of NAKIVO Backup & Replication v2
I was recently invited to try out a beta of NAKIVO Backup & Replication. The first thing I noticed is the installer file is only 83 MB! Here are some quick screenshots of the installation: As you can see, not a lot of options during the installation, this ensures everyone can complete the installation without any […]
Unable to login to VMware vCenter with domain accounts: A general system error occurred: Authorize Exception
Today a customer called me because they were unable to login to their VMware vCenter using domain accounts. They saw the following error message: A general system error occurred: Authorize Exception I asked if they had made any changes and they had created two new Windows Server 2012 domain controllers and given them the IP […]
EqualLogic SAN Headquarters Unable to download manager file
Today a customer called me because he was unable to launch the EqualLogic Group Manager from within EqualLogic SAN HQ. It would load 16% and then show an error: Unable to download manager file There was an error downloading the file from the group. The EqualLogic Group was running firmware 5.2.2 and EqualLogic SAN HQ […]
VMware ESXi Single VM is not vSphere HA protected
Today a customer contacted me with a system consisting of 3 hosts running a VMware ESXi 5.0 cluster. They were experiencing one, and only one VM, was complaining about configuration issues: This virtual machine failed to become vSphere HA protected and HA may not attempt to restart it after a failure. The customer had already […]