I’ve just completed an easy to follow video tutorial on the latest VMware vSphere Data Protection. The vSphere Data Protection Appliance runs within vSphere 5.1 and is used to backup and restore virtual machines. For […]
Hi everyone, I have just completed this tutorial on Veeam’s Backup and Replication 6.5 Free Edition. In the tutorial I run through backing up and restoring a virtual machine within VMware vSphere 5.1 Lastly we […]
I came across this error the other day after upgrading from Netapp SnapManager for Exchange 6.0.3 to 6.0.4. When I tried to run a backup it would produce this error in the Windows Eventviewer: Job […]
I’ve just completed this 4 part Video Tutorial Series on how to upgrade to vSphere 5.1 In this series I cover such things as Single Sign On database creation and installation, vSphere Web Client installation […]
One component that can lead to bad performance of a storage system is misalignment. I’ve just finished writing this tutorial on how to use Netapp’s Virtual Storage Console and mbrscan to identify misaligned Virtual Machines, […]
I ran into an issue tonight that kept me up for a few hours. A customer is running Cisco UCS solution, Cisco Nexus 1000v, Netapp SAN and VMware vSphere 5. We had to re-acknowledge the […]
Netapp have released Data Ontap 8.1.1 GA. See the software log link below: http://support.netapp.com/NOW/download/swchangelog.shtml I’m not sure if this releases fixes all the latency and high cpu issues that some of us experienced when upgrading […]
This week we have migrated a Netapp SAN from using the 1Gb ports to using the 10Gb ports. Instead of creating a new page in the tutorials section I will just highlight the steps here […]
Today I came across an issue with 2 virtual desktops within VMware View 5. They somehow just didn’t want to recompose or rebalance. So, I searched around on how to move the persistent user data […]
I would like to write this post to give an update on the status we are at after our upgrade to Netapp Data Ontap 8.1 and the issues that it caused us. Posting in the […]
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