Last week while working on a Domain Controller for a rarely used domain, I ran into a challenging issue. I couldn’t login to the DC! (Thanks MS for not allowing local logins on Domain Controllers)! RDP responded fine, I could [...]
Posts Tagged ‘server’
ESX 4.0u1 Intel Quad NIC issue
My server of choice for running ESX 4.0 is currently Dell’s 2U PowerEdge R710. Recently I received 2 of these and began the build out process, only to find that the ESX 4.0u1 installer (and ultimately the entire OS) did [...]
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 [...]
ESX – 64GB Memory Limitation
Trying to install ESX 3.X on a new server with greater than 64GB of RAM? Then you’ve probably run into a problem. When looking at the host summary in VC, a host with no VMs on it will appear to be utilizing [...]