Over the last few months, I’ve spent a considerable amount of time deploying and configuring services in our Disaster Recovery datacenter. The majority of services had been configured, and SRM was one of the the last remaining items that needed to be deployed within our environment. Last week, I ran into some issues while configuring an SRM Protection Group.… Read the rest
HP Agentless Monitoring Service Bug
Early last week, I ran into some issues where recently patched hosts were unable to perform any vMotion operations, or provision new data stores. After some investigation, we validated that all of the guest VM’s were still online and functional, however, we could not enable any type of management service, including SSH. Once we logged into the iLO portal, we started to see the host get spammed with the following error message: “can’t fork”.… Read the rest
PernixData – Solving Business Problems
With the release of PernixData FVP 2.0 last week, I figured it would be a good time to take a look back and share my experience with this impressive technology, and take you all on a journey with me regarding how it solved a major business problem at the company I work for. If you haven’t yet heard about the latest release, check it out here.… Read the rest
Nimble Storage Array Upgrade
It’s one of the things we all get to look forward to as a customer: Storage Array Upgrades. When planning our data center migration last year, the company I work for decided to purchase arrays from Nimble Storage. Overall the arrays have met our requirements of both our Virtual Server and Virtual Desktop infrastructures.
Now that the table has been set, it’s time to upgrade the array from version 1.4.11 to 2.1.4.… Read the rest
Upgrading vSphere Data Protection 5.5.6 to 5.8
For those of you that don’t know, VMware recently released vSphere 5.5 Update 2 which includes updates to ESXi, vCenter Server, SRM, and more which I have listed at the end of this post. I have already updated my vCenter Server and ESXi Hosts in the lab, so the objective of this post will be documenting the steps of upgrading the vSphere Data Protection Appliance.… Read the rest