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Qtree SnapMirror warnings and limitations with SRM
While setting up SRM with NetApp 6290 at a customer site, my customer was using Qtrees and Qtree SnapMirror which caused us few issues. If you are setting up SRM and using NetApp Qtree SnapMirror, there is quite few warnings, limitations, and best practices that you will need to be aware of. I have listed…
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SRM Error: XmlValidateException Element SourceDevice is not vaild for content model: Source Device.
While setting up vCenter Site Recovery Manager 5.0.3 with NetAPP 6290 filer, & in particular at the stage where I try to enable the array pair and after I fixed the timeout error I have documented in the following post: SRM Time Out (300 seconds) while waiting for SRA to complete discoverDevice Command, I have faced…
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SRM Time Out (300 seconds) while waiting for SRA to complete discoverDevice Command
While setting up vCenter Site Recovery Manager 5.0.3 with NetAPP storage, & in particular at the stage where I try to enable the array pair I was welcomed with the following error: SRM Time Out (300 seconds) while waiting for SRA to complete ‘discoverDevice’ Command. This SRM SRA Adapter error is not limited…
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VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager Service failed to start
While installing VMware SRM 5.0.3 at a customer site, both nodes installations have given me the following error right before the installation completion: Failed to start service. Details: VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager Service failed to start. Check that all required Windows services are running. View the server log for more information. Press Retry to…
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VMware SRM NetAPP SRA required user permissions
While setting up VMware SRM for a customer lately with a NetAPP filer, I have faced the challenge where the customer wanted to use the minimum required permissions for the user the Solution Replication Adapter (SRA) use to connect to the NetApp filer. At minimum the customer wanted to use a different account from root…
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vCloud Director VM Customization joining domain fail
Joining VMs to the domain is a part of vCloud Director VMs customization process. While configuring the guest customization screen for your VMs in vCloud Director to join the domain is a straight forward & easy process, there seems to be many situations where VMs just fail to join the domain as a part of…
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Assign Domain Users vCenter Single Sign Administrator Privileges
If you have upgraded your Virtual Infrastructure to vSphere 5.1 or 5.5, you are already aware of the addition of Single Sign On. When installing Single Sign On, a default user Admin@System-Domain is created for you with a password that you have assigned to it during the vCenter Single Sign On installation. The Admin@System-Domain user…
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VMworld 2013 Hands-on Labs is now Available Online
Friends and Fans of the VMworld Hands-on Labs, I have a great news for you. I am sure if you are like me, you did not get enough time at VMworld to do all the Hands-on Labs you planned to go through. Worry not, now you can take them online! They are available even for…
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VMware Onyx the easy way to generate vSphere Power CLI & vCO Java Script Code
Every vSphere admin will get to a day where he wants to automate particular tasks, though he always have to weight the benefits vs the time required to automate using a vSphere Power CLI script or implementing the vCO Java Script Code required. What if you can generate such scripts and automation procedure in no…
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VMware vCenter Log Insight 1.5
With the continuous exponential growth of logs in the datacenter, it getting close to impossible to consume them the traditional way. This is no difference in a virtualized environment, where you have the logs for vCenter, ESXi hosts, virtual machines, OS of the VMs, Application logs, & so on. To help admins better digest and…
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Backup & Archive to the Cloud with PHD Virtual Backup 6.5
PHD Virtual has approached me for feedback on their upcoming PHD Virtual Backup 6.5. I have been granted access to an early beta version of the product to try it out, while they have added many enhancement to the product, the one that have got my attention the most is being able to send your…
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Software Defined Datacenter is a Game Changer
At VMworld, VMware will be blasting the world with its Software Defined Datacenter (SDDC) story. While VMware is at the center of the Software Defined Datacenter story, the VMware Software Defined Datacenter offering could put VMware at the Center of the IT Universe. The Software Defined Datacenter story remind me a lot of VMware initial…
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Restarting vCloud Network & Security Manager Web Service
Some time it happen that your vCloud Networking & Security Manager (vShield Manager) stop behaving & you want to restart it. One of the scenarios where you might need this if it stop synchronizing properly with vCenter or vCloud Director. The good news is most of these problems were resolved with the latest release of…
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VMware vCloud Director Stuck While Canceling Task
I have a customer who called me yesterday for having a task in vCloud Director that has been stuck in the cancelling stage for over a month. The problem has started after a power outage they had in their datacenter. vCloud Director is operating just fine, just that particular task was doing nothing and in…
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ATS-Only VMFS Volume ‘VMFS5’ not mounted. Host does not support ATS or ATS initialization has failed.
While being at a customer site last week, I was asked if I could help with a mysterious VMFS datastore behavior. That particular datastore out of a sudden became none accessible and they could not carry out any changes to it. They can not VMotion in or out of it, or even create a folder…