troubleshooting
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Virtualization
Veeam the object has already been deleted or has not been completely created
A quick post here of an issue I ran into supporting a Veeam Backup job in a particular environment. After needing to restore a handful of VMs to rollback a few bad changes made, the next backup job failed. The…
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Virtualization
P2V Windows Cluster Rapid Recovery
The last few days I have been involved with a project to P2V an old Windows 2003 (yes cringe, bang head against wall now) cluster running SQL 2005. The P2V is simply a stop gap solution to get the cluster…
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NSX
VMware NSX Domain conflict with 1 existing domain
Recently, I ran into a peculiar issue with VMware NSX trying to add domains for security grouping. Through the GUI the process is fairly straightforward. However, after adding a domain in testing, removing, and adding again, I ran into an…
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Networking
Create LACP LAG between Extreme and Enterasys switches
A late breaking project I was involved with recently with a client was adding 10G port count to an environment that had simply outgrown the number of 10G ports that were being used. Another ESXi host was being added to scale…
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Virtualization
P2V Linux server network config
I wanted to write up a quick post of a few hurdles I went through with P2V’ing a linux web server that was also running cPanel. The P2V process worked as expected, however upon the first boot of the VM,…
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Virtualization
Rapid Recovery no longer detects Exchange
I had an issue recently with Rapid Recovery I wanted to detail for you guys in case you run into the same issue. I noticed that Exchange logs were not getting truncated appropriately on the Exchange server. Upon checking Rapid…
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home lab
Windows cannot be installed to this disk 4K drives
With the recent SuperMicro server build, I am utilizing Seagate ST8000NM0065 drives. High density 4K drives are starting to come of age, however, there are still a few tricks required to get OS’es installed to boot from 4K. Starting with Windows…
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home lab
Mount Virtual Media SuperMicro IPMI
In the previous post here, I walked through the SuperMicro IPMI management interface and a few of the options that are available to administrators there for management of their SuperMicro server. One of the more interesting options in the IPMI…
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Networking
TCP Auto-tuning slow network performance
Starting with Windows Vista, there were improvements made to the network stack including a little known feature called TCP Window Auto-tuning. The auto-tuning feature allows newer versions of Windows to be able to adjust the RWIN value automatically on the…
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vSphere 6
Expecting 2 bootbanks found 0 VMware ESXi 6
I ran into a pesky issue yesterday when rolling through a slew of host updates in a few production clusters. I had one host that presented with some odd issues during the update manager remediation phase. After rebooting the particular…
