Fixing Cisco FlexFlash “Connectivity Lost” Errors
Cisco added a really cool feature to their servers a while ago called Flex Flash. Basically it allows you to use an SD card (and even in a RAID1 config)…
Year: 2013
Building a Windows 2012 + Veeam 7 Backup Appliance Part 1
No one can deny the advantages of a dedupe appliance, the space and bandwidth savings that they provide are astounding no matter what the brand. While being fairly affordable in…
Veeam 7 with Dedupe Appliances
I’ve wrote about Veeam in combination with a few different types of deduplication appliances, both Exagrid and Data Domain. One thing that I always hear… no matter which dedupe appliance…
Disabling IPv6 on AutoDeployed Reference Host
Yesterday I was helping a customer troubleshoot some AutoDeploy questions about ESXi 5.1, and one of his questions was… “How do I turn off IPv6 for my auto deployed blades”?…
Veeam Support for vSphere 5.5 Arrives!
Veeam has officially released 7.0 R2 … which includes support for VMware vSphere 5.5 and Microsoft Server 2012. I was able to apply the patch and start backups for a…
Zerto: The Missing Manual
If you are a follower of my blog you might remember the Veeam Missing Manuals I put together a long time ago, they were pretty popular and seemed to help…
Unofficial Cisco UCS Wallpaper
I snapped some screenshots of the Cisco UCS bootup process and found that they can make some cool wallpaper. So if you’re a UCS geek… here ya go! Disclaimer: all…
Hands on with the new EMC VNX5400
This week I was onsite with a customer setting up their new virtualization environment and got to play with a couple of the new EMC VNX5400’s. I wont go through…
Things to keep in mind if upgrading to vSphere 5.5
If you are a super early adopter there are a few KB articles that you will want to keep an eye on if you are looking to go to vSphere…
MS SQL AlwaysOn Availability Groups, a better way to cluster
I’ve done posts before about how much I hate Microsoft Clusters, mainly because of their shared disk requirements. While VMware does support a virtualized Microsoft cluster with shared disks, the…