Entries from April 2009

April 30, 2009

A Must Read

Tonight I was cleaning up some books I had sitting down in our spare room when I come across a book which Ive been meaning to post about for some time.
I’m the first to admit I don’t read enough books… busy with kids, busy doing geeky things, busy with work… I can always drum up [...]

April 24, 2009

RVTools to Audit your VMware environment

Well after a few nights off I’m ready to start talking technical stuff again. Ive recently had the need to start looking into how I’m going to generate some reporting on both ESX hosts and Virtual Machines configured in Virtual Center.
After looking around on the VMware forums I come across a recommendation by Texiwill for [...]

April 22, 2009

Something to take the edge off

As mentioned in previous post Ive been busy lately and Ive been a bit all over the place. One night I was watching TV and come across this very funny commercial which im pleased to say is made in New Zealand, I’m not a fan of 99% of TV commercials so its good to see [...]

April 22, 2009

How to remove SRM snap prefix from LUN names

Ive been plenty busy latley with a number of projects latley so I havnt been looking over the VMware forums latley but I went back over most the posts for the last couple of weeks and found something that really interested me and I wanted to post incase others found this usefull.
Have you noticed during [...]

April 10, 2009

NetWorker 7.5.1 new VCB recovery feature

Last week NetWorker 7.5.1 was released on PowerLink, after downloading the package I decided to look through the release notes. Now its safe to say anything to do with VMware and NetWorker interests me so when I saw “Performing A single step recovery of the full virtual machine” I went straight to page 126. If you [...]

April 10, 2009

NSRADMIN is your Friend

One of the nice features of the Worpress blog is you can see what searches people are using to find your site which is something I keep an eye on in case there’s any good ideas for future posts.
Now on the other hand you can also leave a comment on any of the posts like Vijaysys did.
Hi
Howis it [...]

April 7, 2009

Celerra Lun fails to snapshot during SRM Test

Today I was thinking about a problem I had this week with site recovery manager and thought id post something just to keep track of the errors and in case someone had the same problem. Let me paint a picture.
Protected Site
Virtual Center Server with SRM installed
Celerra storage replication adapter
Three  node VMware HA/DRS cluster.
Celerra NS120 presenting 3 x iSCSI luns to [...]