Introducing VMware vCenter Mobile Access

I was flicking around the VMware website when I come across something which made me rather excited…. “Access to your Virtual Center features from your mobile phone”
Below Ive done a copy and paste from the origionl VMTN blog which covers this, if you want to have a read you can find it here.
vCMA allows you to monitor [...]

Protected: EMC Networker and VCB Setup using NBD

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Installation Error – 1155 instmsi30.exe not found

The other night I was up installing the new Celerra SRM failback plug-in and I come across this hideous error “Installation Error – 1155 instmsi30.exe not found” when I tried to install the plug-in.
The virtual machine I installed this on was built from scratch rather than a template which I use at our production site [...]

Getting MMINFO output into Excel

For those of you who are familiar with MMINFO you’ll know how powerful it is and how much information you can get from the media database. Some people like to use the built in reporting functionality built into Networker NMC but personally I find it unreliable and more times that not I find the numbers [...]

Networker and VCB trouble shooting

There have been a number of improvements for Networker VCB integration in the new 7.4.x and 7.5 builds.
For anyone who decides to integrate VCB into Networker I highly recommend you start with the basics. Install the VCB framework on the proxy server and start with some vcbmounter commands to make sure you can successfully perform [...]

Disk Alignment

I wanted to post about something  I recently found made a significant difference in performance testing done on a Celerra NS20.
I found a  this post http://clariionblogs.blogspot.com/2008/02/disk-alignment.html at Clariion blog central which has an excellent explanation about how and why disk misalignment occurs, defiantly worth a read.
The NS20 I refer to above is our production Celerra we [...]

Dont remove clients from Groups

Something I see on a regular basis is customers having  issues with a particular client backing up and to stop the group from failing  they tend to remove the client from the group. Often the failure can be something as simple as the machine was rebuilt and the Networker client hasnt been instaled yet.
Now if you remove the [...]

EMC Celerra VMware Site Recovery Manager Failback Plug-in

Ive been using  VMware’s Site Recovery Manager 1.1 for a few months now and overall I think its a brilliant and exciting addition to Vmware’s port folio.
Now one of the major functionality short commings of SRM has been the option/ability to fail back from the recovery site back to production, currently this is a manual process and [...]

So you dont like your logs RAW

Well Ive had a couple of people ask me over the last few days about Networker log files. For those of you who have moved to a 7.4.x system you will have noticed the daemon.log file has been superseeded by a new daemon.raw log file which in my opinion brings alot of nice features when the [...]

EMC Celerra iSCSI sizing with Celerra replicator V2 and SRM

Recently I setup VMware’s SRM (Site Recovery Manager) in preperation for work coming up at a customers site using our existing 2 node ESX cluster and 2x EMC NS20’s (Celerra’s).
I setup a File System about 35GB then created a test iSCSI lun of 25GB, presented it to my ESX servers and continued on my SRM [...]