14 Nov 2013
By Yendis

UK VMUG – 21/11/2013

VMware
For those people who couldn't attend VMworld this year, I would strongly recommend attending the next big event of the year, and that is the UK VMUG.  This is free to attend and is being held on Thursday 21st November 2013 at National Motorcycle Museum Coventry Road Bickenhill Solihull West Midlands B92 0EJ This is going to be a great event , keynote speaker is Joe Baguley, VMware CTO EMEA having seen Joe's recent keynote at VMworld 2013 in Barcelona I was impressed and I'm sure he'll deliver another powerful keynote at this event. Also presenting are other great leaders in the industry and blogs I personally follow:- Scott Lowe @Scott_Lowe (VCDX #39) Jason Langone @langonej …
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20 Oct 2013
By Yendis

Issues with Ports on Windows Servers

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I have come across a number of comments in forums about asking how to determine what software is using a particular port.  This query happens when you are trying to install software which fails due to a port being utilized already.  I came across the same query and remembered that I could do this using NETSTAT but couldn't remember the switches.  Well I found the information and thought I would share:- netstat -aon | findstr Eg: with port 443 If you kill the related process then the port will be become free. Note : Normally PID column will not be visible in…
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27 Sep 2013
By Yendis

Netbackup 7.5 – VMware Options short explained

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For people who use Symantec Netbackup as their backup client of choice (as I do) and running a VMware environment you will find the following information useful. Here is a short information about the Option available in Netbackup for VMware. VMware Credentials in Netbackup: Click Media and Device Management > Credentials > Virtual Machine Servers. Click Actions > New > New Virtual Machine Server. On the Add Virtual Machine Server dialog, enter the name of a virtual machine server (vCenter server or ESX server). Note: The credentials for ESX or vSphere client are needed that Netbackup can create and access the virtual machine Snapshots. VMware backup…
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31 Aug 2013
By Yendis

SQL Server Performance

Microsoft, , ,
It is pretty important to make sure you set the Max Server memory setting for SQL Server 2005/2008 to something besides the default setting (which allows SQL Server to use as much memory as it wants, subject to signals from the operating system that it is under memory pressure). This is especially important with larger, busier systems that may be under memory pressure. This setting controls how much memory can be used by the SQL Server Buffer Pool.  If you don’t set an upper limit for this value, other parts of SQL Server, and the operating system can be starved…
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31 Aug 2013
By Yendis

VMware vSphere 5.5 what’s new

VMware,
Now that VMworld 2013 is now over and a number of key product updates announced I thought it was worth highlighting some of enhancements and improvements that stretch across the entire stack with vSphere 5.5. As you can see from the summary below this release is a major step forward to VMware's strategic move toward the fully software defined data center. Flash Read Cache This completely new feature in vSphere 5.5 provides a mechanism for utilizing fast SSD as a Linux host swap cache or to provide improved read speed for a host virtual disk. To make use of this feature, you first have…
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26 Aug 2013
By Yendis

Register – VMware NOW – Live Launch Event

VMware
VMware NOW – Live Launch Event Date: August 26, 2013 Time: 9:00 AM PDT (5:00 PM GMT) On August 26, visit VMware NOW—your online destination for breaking news, live events, product announcements, and more. You will discover how VMware is empowering organizations like yours to innovate and thrive by virtualizing IT infrastructure, from the data center to the cloud to mobile devices. Register now to view this online event
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26 Aug 2013
By Yendis

Adding the ESX/ESXi host to an Active Directory domain fails with the error “Errors in Active Directory operations”

VMware, ,
When adding a 4.1 ESX/ESXi host to an Active Directory domain it fails or whilst adding you receive an error "Errors in Active Directory operations". If you have netlogond enabled on the host, you can check to see if you have similar entries in the netlogond.log: 20100820075107:0xf7c74b90:DEBUG:[LWNetSrvGetCurrentDomain () /build/mts/release/bora-234910/likewise/esxi- esxi/src/linux/netlogon/server/api/lwnet-pstore.c:83] Error  at /build/mts/release/bora-234910/likewise/esxi- esxi/src/linux/netlogon/server/api/lwnet-pstore.c:83 [code: 136] The issue is more than likely down to TCP/UDP ports not open between the ESX/ESXi host and Active Directory server. Make sure you have the following TCP and UDP ports open:- Required (TCP and UDP) ports are Port 88  - Kerberos authentication Port 123 – NTP Port 135 - RPC Port 137 - NetBIOS Name Service Port…
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10 Aug 2013
By Yendis

Installing vSphere Client 5.1 fails

VMware, , ,
When installing the vSphere 5.1 client you may encounter the following error message "Failed to install hcmon", if you look at the vminst.log file (which is normally located in the %TEMP% area) you will notice the following:- After troubleshooting this issue I found that I required Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5.1 Service Pack 1 installed (or the feature wasn't turned on) before installing the client. Install Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5.1 Service Pack 1 Install the vSphere 5.1 client  
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