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 [...]
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 [...]
ESX – Enabling Hardware Virtualization
There are several advantages to enabling hardware virtualization technology in the BIOS of your servers when using vSphere or ESX. These include the ability to use EVC (Enhanced vMotion Compatibility) on your DRS clusters, the use of 64bit OS guests, [...]
VMware – Security Bulletins
As with any good system, patching is extremely important to keeping your system in safe, running condition. The same holds true for ESX. I’d recommend that anyone who administers an ESX environment sign up to receive critical security bulletins from [...]