I recently had an issue during SRM testing where the “Test Recovery” passed, but when we ran the actual recovery, it failed. Looking through the logs it looked like SRM or the SRA did not see the full name of the [...]
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SRM – Trusted Certificates
Today I began my work with VMware’s DR product, SRM. I’ll be using this tool to migrate a few hundred virtual machines from one datacenter to another, not for DR purposes. The first issue I ran into took me quite [...]
Changing the Service Console VLAN ID via Command Line
To set the VLAN ID of your service console (if you entered the wrong ID, forgot to enter an ID, etc.), you can use the esxcfg-vswitch command! esxcfg-vswitch vSwitch0 -v XX -p “Service Console” (where XX is your VLAN ID [...]
vCenter Task Timeout
By default, tasks in vCenter (such as snapshot deletion) will time out in 900 seconds (15 minutes). If you’d like to modify this setting, it can be done easily… Modify the vpxd.cfg (C:/Documents and Settings/All Users/Application Data/VMware/VMware VirtualCenter/vpxd.cfg) file by adding: [...]
Fault Tolerance compatability made easy
VMware has provided a utility called VMware Site Survey that will run a compatability check against your environment and produce a report that will let you know what, if any, issues you need to fix before turning on Fault Tolerance [...]
Extending Windows Server Volumes
As ESX has matured, extending the size of .vmdk disks has become easier and easier. In ESX 3.5, using the VI client, you can simply edit your VM settings and increase the size of the disk. (or you can use [...]