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 …
Read MoreI’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 …
Read MoreI tried a lot of “appliance” but the most of them are not appliance. Always the same stuff, they virtualize a server and call it virtual appliance. There is no menu to configure the network and so on. Just an virtual machine with an full OS and an application. A real virtual appliance has an OS called JeOS (Just enough …
Read MoreI wish all a merry Christmas and a happy New Year. Enjoy the days with your family and friends. Wish you all the best! hemmi
Read MoreI 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 …
Read MoreI 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 …
Read MoreToday I have ordered a Second HP Microserver N40L. Additionally 8GB for my old and the new Microserver and the Remote Access Card. I will create a Cluster with both Micro’s and my ML115 G5 using EVC. This will be enough power to run all my test as preparation for the VCP 5 exam.
Read MoreIt is supported by VMware to run the VDR 2.0 with 4GB memory. This will reduce the swap usage a lot. Hopefully this will help to stabilize the Backup System.
Read MoreYes there is a memory leak in the current Version of VDR 2.0. After some days the VDR crash’s with the Message “Out of Memory”. Get PID of datarecovery process <br /> ps -ef | grep datarecovery<br /> Check with pmap to display information about the address space of a process <br /> pmap -x PID<br …
Read MoreThere will be no post the next days as I’m currently move to a new flat. After this I’m going to re-setup my Homelab and maybe extend it by 1 additional HP ML115 G5 🙂 Cheers hemmi
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