Virtually Everything: Your Guide to Virtualization

Dell FX2 Overview & Setup for vSphere Environments

GrahamJuly 22, 2017August 30, 2017

In this series of blog posts, I'll go through the base configuration required for the following scenario (Scroll down for links to the configurations) Configure FX2 chassis with dual FN2210S IO Modules to LAN & FC switches for Dell EMC VNX. *Note that these guides are not suitable for Dell EMC Unity and possibly other...

VMware vSAN

vSAN vs Traditional Storage Array

GrahamJuly 22, 2017July 27, 2018

I've been putting notes together for a while with regards to vSAN and how it differs from Traditional Storage Arrays. Naturally, the choice between the two depends on your requirements but it's becoming obvious that the use cases for vSAN are growing on every release. Here are my quick overview...

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Backup Exec – Insufficient winsock resources available to complete socket connection initiation

GrahamJuly 22, 2017July 22, 2017

A few months back I encountered this issue which was stopping the backup exec beremote.exe process which is required to backup Virtual Machines. Insufficient winsock resources available to complete socket connection initiation The cause In my case it was a recent Windows Update that caused hundreds of false sockets to...

Certification

VCAP6-DCV Deploy Exam Simulator Update

GrahamApril 19, 2017July 22, 2017

As I'm preparing for VCDX I have not been as active on the blog as I would like, the good news is that when I have some free time I am working on improving the VCAP6-DCV Deploy Exam Simulator! Since it's launch late last year, there have been over 100 sessions,...

VMware Cloud VMware vRealize (Aria)

vROps – Installation

GrahamFebruary 12, 2017October 22, 2017

There are three install options for VROps 6.4. Windows, Linux and the OVA. In this post we'll look at the preferred OVA installation. The OVA can be considered as more secure (Effectively a black box that admins will be less tempted to modify) and performs better since it's isolated from other...

vSphere

How do you kill a VM that will not power off?

GrahamFebruary 12, 2017February 12, 2017

Sometimes a virtual machine will not power off via the web client. To resolve this, the process is very simple: Enable SSH on the host that the VM is running on: 2. Login to the host via SSH 3. Run the following command: esxcli vm process list 4. Find the...

VMware SRM vSphere

The problem with point in time snapshots and vSphere Replication

GrahamFebruary 4, 2017October 22, 2017

vSphere Replication is a nice, simple solution to replicate Virtual Machines from one site to another. It helps protect your business against most common threats to the data center and furthermore it's included in vSphere standard and above at no extra cost. Some vSphere Replication users will notice an option...

VMware vRealize (Aria)

vRealize Operations Manager – Monitor any IP & port for Availability and Response time!

GrahamJanuary 18, 2017October 22, 2017

A while back I was looking for a vROps management pack that would ping IP addresses to check availability and response time for a given list of endpoints. A search of the VMware Solution Exchange returned nothing however recently I discovered the Port Adapter management pack. Initially from reading the...

VMware vSAN

[VIDEO] VMware vSAN 6.5 – Install, configure, test in 4 minutes

GrahamJanuary 14, 2017January 17, 2017

This short video covers: Enabling vSAN 6.5 Configuring vSAN options Running a VM on vSAN Verifying duplication and compression ratios (See it in action!) Running built-in proactive vSAN tests https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diYw-YT6o-I...

VMware SRM

VMware Site Recovery Manager – Connection Error 503

GrahamJanuary 7, 2017January 16, 2017

A few days ago I was presented with a Site Recovery Manager 5.5.1 install that was not functioning. The problem was first noticed when trying to login to SRM via the vSphere C# Client Connection Error: Lost connection to SRM Server The Server could not interpret the client's request. (The...

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Virtually Everything: Your Guide to Virtualization

Migrating from VMware vSphere to Azure Stack HCI

The Evolution of Dell iDRAC

What is VMware Explore & Why you should go

Azure Stack HCI – Backup and Recovery with Veeam

How to Install Azure Stack HCI 23H2 – In your Lab