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I had a recent use case to be able to check the reachability of a certain VM which had shown itself to be problematic. If the VM wasn’t responsive or…
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I had a recent use case to be able to check the reachability of a certain VM which had shown itself to be problematic. If the VM wasn’t responsive or…
In working on an older Microsoft SQL Cluster server configuration recently, I ran into an issue with a lab copy of the SQL Cluster not bringing the SQL resources online…
In working recently in a nested VMware environment running three clusters and NSX, I ran into a jumbo frames issue with VXLAN connectivity across the clusters. I was simulating different…
A quick issue I ran into yesterday connecting a restful API client to an NSX manager – “there was an error connecting”. As I had connected to this manager before…
The other day when playing around “rather hard” with distributed switches and NSX, I broke my distributed switch implementation on one of my lab ESXi 6 hosts. I couldn’t ping…
This past week in working with a Supermicro lab host filled with 12 4TB drives, I ran into an issue with the ESXi 6.0 installer that was a bit peculiar…
Today I ran into a weird situation with a Windows 10 VM that I wanted to write up a quick post about. Having provisioned a Windows 10 VM from a…
There are quite a few things that an administrator may need to check when it comes to making sure connectivity to SQL is happy and healthy in your respective environments.…
I wanted to share with you guys a really handy little SQL query that is extremely useful if you are troubleshooting SQL Server linked server connectivity. You may have setup…
Just a quick tip from the trenches that I have used numerous times over the years to deal with problematic Windows services. Let’s take a look at the “kill a…