I ran into a problem with one virtual machine, when creating a snapshot for backup (Veeam and/or VMware datarecovery) : After some troubleshooting i found that stopping the following services did the job : Microsoft Software Shadow Copy Provider” and “Volume Shadow Copy” The specific server is an webserver soRead More →
Sometimes it can be handy to export and import your DNS records. This can easily be done. When you are using an Active Directory integrated DNS server (and who isn’t :-)), then you can acomplish this as follows: Change your DNS scope settings to not Active Directory integrated Go toRead More →
This is just a quick note to describe how you can easily change the vlan ID of the service console in ESX. To remove the vlan id completely, just set it to 0 (in case you have set it by accident on an access port) esxcfg-vswitch vSwitch0 -v 0 -pRead More →
I’ve got this question several times from customers, friends, co-workers etc. Suppose now it’s time to make a small blogpost of it. (Also handy for VCP/VCDX exams) A WWPN (World Wide Port Name) is physically assigned to a part in a Fibre Channel device, such as a FC HBA or SAN.Read More →
When using several VMFS 3 datastores, there is no need to use the VMFS 2 driver. You can unload the driver with the following command : vmkload_mod -u vmfs2 Also, if you are not using (or planning to use) NFS datastores, you can also unload the NFS driver with theRead More →
I found here information about running ONTAP 8.0.7. on ESX. (mirror : Use Ontap807 on ESX)Read More →
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A customer complained about Snapmanager for Exchange (NetApp) not working. The following error was in the eventlog: Microsoft says the following about this: Probably so rights issues on the mailbox. On the internet I found a script that the Mailbox GUID turnover to the user. Download this script here :Read More →
Gabe has a good blog post with VMware vSphere 4 default settings. Don’t agree with all settings although… read it hereRead More →
By default Outlook 2003 doesn’t support encryption towards the Exchange server. Enable it using the mail settings or disable encryption traffic on the exchange server :Read More →