I used to think that it was not proper to deface your computer with decals handed out around conferences, but now I realize my Mom was wrong and it is OK to play with stickers even as an adult. I think stickers are a way for me to remember where I have been and […]
I noticed that my DR VCSA was down when I could not reach it from the Production VCSA in enhanced link mode. I tried to connect directly to it and received the error: 503 Service Unavailable (Failed to connect to endpoint: [N7Vmacore4Http20NamedPipeServiceSpecE:0x00007f9b48016e80] _serverNamespace = / action = Allow _pipeName =/var/run/vmware/vpxd-webserver-pipe) I SSH’ed to the […]
A couple people have asked recently about my experience with WGU so i though i would pass on some info on my experience. I completed the BS Network Administration Degree in just under 2 years after transferring in credits from my AA. https://washington.wgu.edu/online_it_degrees/information_technology_degree_networks_admin I finished my associates degree before starting this program and everything […]
Veeam 9.5 Restore SQL to Another Server Restoring a DB from a SQL Server 2012 backup to a different SQL server with SQL 2014 Express installed. Using Veeam 9.5 U1. I left in the issues you would encounter along the way. Required destination SQL server firewall ports and SQL server configuration. Start an […]
I had a need to split out the PSC from vCenter to use enhanced link mode for a DR site. This particular vCenter had been upgraded several times and I opted for a fresh start instead of trying to split out the current vCenter. I deployed the PSC and vCenter 6.5 as separate VM’s. […]
I installed a Brocade BR-1020 in an ESXI 6.5 host and it purple screened on reboot. The Firmware on the BR-1020 was 2.2.0.1 and I could not use ESXCLI or vCenter to update because i can not boot the host. QLogic did have a liveCD that can be booted from to do the update. I […]
After upgrading vCenter from 6.0 to 6.5 i created an VUM upgrade baseline for the hosts with Dell image (VMware-VMvisor-Installer-6.5.0-4564106.x86_64-Dell_Customized-A00.iso). During remediation i received the event “Cannot execute upgrade script on host”. After trying the steps in KB 2007163 https://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=2007163 I did not see the events the described in the vua.log I did see […]
Let start this off with a recent issue I had in my VSAN home lab. After a recent power outage i was surprised to see that HA had not powered on my VM’s after the hosts were back up. I opened vSphere to each host and found the VM’s were inaccessible. I scanned for new […]
