All things Cloud, by Matt Hansen.
Reading Time: 2 minutesIf you’ve ever added hosts to an SCVMM instance you’ll know that there’s seeminly no easy way to move the newly imported VMs from those hosts into SCVMM clouds. I’ve found the best way to do this is by using the SCVMM command-line interface, which unfortunately has a few quirks. Set-SCVirtualMachine is the command you’ll […]
Reading Time: < 1 minuteI recently spun up a new SCVMM environment, created my first VM, and attempted to create a template only to be faced with a job error. Error (2912) An internal error has occurred trying to contact the Host01 server: : . WinRM: URL: [http://Host01.lab.local:5985], Verb: [INVOKE], Method: [LoadSubkey], Resource: [http://schemas.microsoft.com/wbem/wsman/1/wmi/root/scvmm/P2VSourceFixup?RegFileName=C:\Users\SVC_VMM\AppData\Local\Temp\tmp6AB5.tmp] The configuration registry database is […]
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe purpose of this configuration is to decrease the time for large SQL backups in VMware virtual machines that are being backed up by VEEAM. In our scenario we have a SQL server and a File Server. We want to mount this in physical compatibility mode on the SQL server, to increase backup time by […]
Reading Time: < 1 minuteIn all of our environments we all know EXACTLY what’s going on, where it’s going on, and where everything is right? Chances are that’s not true, and like most of us, especially in large home-grown development environments there are servers sitting under peoples desks, in some random closets, etc. Here’s an easy way to find […]
Reading Time: 2 minutesI recently ran into this issue when doing an all-in-one VDI install, on top of a server that had been used for other things in the past. The “quick start” VDI option is supposed to essentially do everything for you, but I ran into this issue. “The Server does not have a network adapter available […]
Reading Time: < 1 minuteI had to find the vSphere 5.5 client today and I have to say — it wasn’t very easy. In light of that, I’ll just leave the links here for everyone. Download vSphere Client 5.5 Update 2: VMware-viclient-all-5.5.0-1993072.exe Download vSphere Client 5.5 Update 1b: VMware-viclient-all-5.5.0-1880841.exe Download vSphere Client 5.5 Update 1: VMware-viclient-all-5.5.0-1618071.exe Download vSphere Client 5.5: VMware-viclient-all-5.5.0-1281650.exe
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThis past weekend I was invoking my disaster recovery plan for a system of mine and I went to boot the .iso to run the restore (CA ArcServ D2D Bootkit) and I kept on getting this error. Under the gun of pressure as the production hours quickly approached I had to figure it out. *** […]
