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 […]
VMware ESX 4 Storage vMotion
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 […]
iPhone 3G adventures
Yesterday was my first foray into the local Apple store for support on my iPhone. While walking through a large chain electronics store, my phone displayed the phrase along the lines of, you phone can no longer send or receive phone calls, please contact support. I rebooted the phone hoping that it was just a […]
ESX host not responding while VMs still up
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 […]
Election day rant
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 […]
VMware ESXi guest unknown (invalid)
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, […]
Microsoft Remote Desktop on IPhone
As a Windows administrator, there are many times where you are out and get the emergency call that a service is down and you need to come into the office. You need to drop everything and run to the office or the datacenter. Smart phones, specifically the Apple Iphone can help out. An application WinAdmin allows […]