It’s now a while that I have posted something new on my page 🙁 but currently I’m extremely busy at work. Setting up multiple new environments based on new / different hardware and in multiple data centre area’s. This is quite interesting because all environments will work together even if they don’t have direct …

If you are using Datastore cluster with enabled SDRS in vSphere 5.1 you possible will receive this error message. Call “StorageResourceManager.RecommendDatastores” for object “StorageResourceManager” on vCenter Server failed Currently is no fix available from VMware. But will possible be available in ESXi 5.1 Update 1. …

Normally you install the vSphere Webclient on an additional windows server to separate it from the vCenter. This results in one additional Windows license (Server or 7 both possible). But wait why should I do this if there is the vCenter Appliance from VMware which contains the Webclient running on Linux? So I tried it …

I’m currently playing around with the new VMware VSA 5.1. I have installed it successfully on a standalone vCenter with local users. But on a different vCenter which is using an OpenLDAP as user base the VSA Manager fails to install with the error message “Login failed due to a Bad user or password”. The reason for …

Yesterday VMware has announced the new VMware vSphere 5.1 with multiple cool new features. Feature list from the Whats New VMware 51 Platform Technical Whitepaper.pdf VMware vSphere 5.1 introduces many new features and enhancements that further extend the core capabilities of the vSphere platform. The core platform …

Since May ( Post ) I was facing multiple Kernel panic’s in my VDR appliance. Now I got something like a fix which is running quite smooth in my environment. Steps: Deploy a new VDR 2.0 appliance SSH in or log into the console (root/vmw@re) 3. Install this kernel. rpm -i …

I’m currently facing an problem with my vdr that it runs into a kernel panic. It looks like an issue with the hot add function which add’s vmdks from virtual machines. The response from vmware was to set to parameters in the datarecovery.ini file. Location: /var/vmware/datarecovery/datarecovery.ini If the file doesn’t …

I’m very busy at work as we are currently in major reorganisation. Personal for myself everything has changed. I’m now in a new department including a new boss and new responsibilities. But now everything settles and I have time for new stuff like my preparation for the VCP 5 exam. 🙂 As preparation I have upgraded my …

I was not quite happy with the statistics from the vCenter. It is not possible to get an overview overall my ESXi servers. 🙁 Someone pointed me to the tool Graphite that this is a cool solution to visualize such kind of statistics. So I decided to give it a try. I created and virtual machine running Centos and Graphite …

I got my 2nd HP Microserver today including the Remote Access Card. In the next days the memory upgrade of both boxes to 8GB each will arrive too. So that means my private Lab is nearly ready. I just miss the external iSCSI storage but this is currently no issue as I use a freenas on my ML115 G5 as shared storage. Let …