Sysadmin Tutorials

I have just completed a full blown, no holes barred 10 part VMware Site Recovery Manager 5 Tutorial Series. In this series I will run through the entire setup, installation and configuration of VMware Site Recovery Manager 5. I will then show you how to run a test recovery plan, a full disaster recovery and finally a failback which is a new feature to Site Recovery Manager 5.
VMware Site Recovery Manager 5 Tutorials
If you have time to follow my tutorial and create your own lab, you will definitely learn a lot in a short space of time, and for those that are unable to run this beautiful technology up in the lab then feel free to browse through all the screen shots.
If you have any questions please feel free to start a new thread in the forums http://www.sysadmintutorials.com/forums

This tutorial follows on from the Microsoft Windows Clustering Tutorials. Where we created a Windows Failover Cluster between 2 servers. Now we run through the installation of Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 in Cluster Setup Mode.

I’ve been asked a few times now on how to create a Check Point Cluster setup. The last few days I’ve run up a lab and put together a tutorial on how to setup a Check Point R75 Cluster.
You can find the tutorial by click here: http://www.sysadmintutorials.com/tutorials/check-point/check-point-r75-cluster-setup/

Microsoft Windows Server 8 Beta

I’ve just completed a Preview Tutorial on the new Windows Server 8. In this tutorial I will run you through the installation of Windows Server 8, followed by a quick look at the new graphics of Task Manager. We will then install the Active Directory Domain Services Roles and promote the server to become a Domain Controller

Trainsignal have just released VMware vCloud Director Essentials Training.

I have just added a new Microsoft Tutorial – How to set Windows 2008 R2 MTU and one new VMware Tutorial – How to Create a VMware ESXi 5 upgrade image containing the Nexus1000v in PowerCLI

Manual Uninstall of Netapp Storage Replication Adapter

Today I came across this issue while performing a VMware SRM upgrade from 4.1 to 5. I originally had VMware SRM 4.1 along with Netapp Storage Replication Adapter (SRA) 1.4.x. I completed the upgrade to VMware SRM 5 and when it came time to uninstall the previous version of the Netapp SRA I received this error:

Upgrading VMware View Composer to version 2.7 produces a Registry Key Permissions Error

I came across this error today while trying to upgrade VMware View 4.6 to a VMware View 5 installation.

I’ve just completed the Cisco Nexus 1000v Secondary switch setup tutorial. In this tutorial we will install and configure the secondary switch to connect to the same Domain ID as the primary and boot up as a standby node. We will verify this with show module from the cli.

Windows Failover Cluster – Creating an MSDTC Cluster Resource

another new additon to the Windows Clustering Tutorials is how to setup and create an MSDTC Resource within a Windows Failover Cluster. In this tutorial I run through installing the MSDTC resource followed by a few extra config changes that are needed.