I woke my wife up at 3AM to the sounds of Reveille blaring from my iPhone. While she was not enthused with my choice of music, she was less enthused with waking up at 3AM. I told her the mission calls for it. While we haven’t been impacted significantly by the economic downturn, we have [...]
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When a firm is contemplating virtualization, there are many positives: server consolidation, improved DR, reduced energy consumption, reduced infrastructure costs, etc…. There are also negatives: increased risk due to single point of failure, additional complexity, server sprawl… Server sprawl has long been a part of the Windows Server realm, due to the overwhelming mindset of [...]
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Our development environment consists of two dual HP Proliant DL380 G5s. Both nodes have two dual core processors and 36GB of ram each. We have DRS enabled and are running about 32 vCPUs. We started getting complaints from the application owners that their dev environments were becoming extremely sluggish. Looking at the Virtual Center server, [...]
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Ah, another day ahem, night in the life of a systems admin. What was supposed to be a quick 10 minute change ends up taking 3 and half hours and running until 3AM in the morning. The change was to upload the patch 6 package for Mcafee 8.5i Virusscan into EPO 3.6. After importing the [...]
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Last night’s Indiana Windows Users Group (IWUG) was a web conference presented by Nick King, A Microsoft Technical manager for the Essential Business Server team. While we were sitting enjoying Dinner , Nick was sitting in Redmond Washington. What is Essential Business Server (EBS)? A Product sku designed for medium business that have one or [...]
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One of the features being updated in the next release of VMware ESX is storage vMotion. Storage vMotion was released in ESX 3.5 and while great for administrators that leverage either iSCSI or VMFS, it was of limited use to administrators leveraging NFS datastores. One benefit of using NFS datastores is the default creation of [...]
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While doing a P2V, one of my ESX hosts started reporting as offline. The hostd daemon on the service console hung. Below are the following steps taken to restart the daemon. As soon as the mgmt-vmware is restarted, it immediately popped in virtual infrastructure successfully. The following steps did not cause any downtime of the [...]
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Well I got up at 5:30 today to make sure that I had time to get to the polls before rushing into work on an a previously scheduled off day. Oh well the life of an admin. Given the massively long lines shown by broadcast news, I was expecting wait time similar to Best Buy [...]
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First, A little background of my home network; I have a two system network consisting of Dell workstation. The first runs ESXi 3.5 Update 2 and the second runs Open Solaris 2008.05. I utilize the ZFS for both the root and the data drives. I use an NFS share for my ESX datastore. Well today, [...]
Filed under: NFS, Solaris, VMware, ZFS | Tagged: NFS, Solaris, VMware, ZFS | 1 Comment »
