Virtualization
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AppAssure vCenter Permissions for Exporting Virtual Standby VMs
In working recently with AppAssure in exporting VMs for Virtual Standby purposes, I found a lack of documentation in AppAssure or on the net surrounding permissions required in vCenter to export VMs as Virtual Standbys. I wanted to share with…
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Can’t remove permissions from vCenter Server VCSA 6
Recently, I came across a weird issue with permissions in vCenter. A list of user permissions were displayed within vCenter server of users from a trusted domain that had permissions to the server. However, we wanted to removed those permissions…
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Best Practices using VLANs with iSCSI and vMotion
So many times, the discussion comes up with using vlans , how to use them, and when they need to be implemented, especially in best practices using vlans with iscsci and vmotion. Do you always use vlans with iscsi and…
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USB 3.0 thumb drive not showing in VMware Workstation
For those of you who use VMware Workstation, if you have ever tried to mount maybe a new USB 3.0 thumb drive and have it available as a removable disk in your VMware Workstation guest OS and found that it…
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AppAssure Multiple SCSI controllers after export to VM
So far in using AppAssure in several environments, it works pretty well and seems to shine with VM to VM exports. It does like most backup software though have a few quirks to deal with. If you are an AppAssure…
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Cold clone failing targeting vSphere 6 Use Nested ESXi 4.1 instead
In P2V’ing an old environment with several old Windows boxes some of which were domain controllers, I had to use the cold clone 3.03 utility to actually perform the P2V process on the servers in question. One of the issues…
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Windows 10 ADK USB boot with VMware cold clone 3.03
So this is probably a really weird combination of old and new. The other day I was working to P2V an old domain controller as is without dcproming down and then back in. Best practice is to dcpromo a DC…
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Installing the vSphere 6 Replication Appliance
The vSphere Replication functionality which used to reside exclusively in VMware’s SRM product, is currently a standalone appliance now which gives virtualization administrators the replication functionality piece for free in any licensed version of vSphere. The appliance is a small…
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Exclude hosts from vRealize Operations manager license
For those of you running vRealize Operations Manager, you may have a license for say only 6 sockets to monitor your environment. However, you may want to add hosts from your DEV or TEST environments to that same vCenter environment,…
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Check Equalogic SAN hard drives for errors
Many use and love Equalogic SANs in their virtual environments. I wanted to write up a quick post on how to see if any of your hard drives inside your Equalogic have experienced or are experiencing drive errors. This can…
