Tag: OS

Data Center Disaster – Lesson Learned

Well, this post going to have some technical information but it’s more like a document on “what’s happened and what should do”. Our company has multiple “data center design and support” project and three days ago there was disaster in one of them. Customer site consist of: One “HP EVA 8400 – 2C4D” as storage […]

Updated: August 19, 2011 — 3:01 PM

Unregistering & Registering VMs

This post is about the way to unregister and register VMs from/to ESXi hosts using commands (Local TSM, SSH) not GUI (vSphere Client). May be you ask, why should I do such a thing? well, assume you have two hosts in cluster without EVC enabled for it, in order to enable EVC for cluster, all […]

Updated: April 5, 2011 — 2:59 AM

Project #01 (P.02)

Hi, It’s another post about my personal project which I mention before (link). Up to now we have installed 12 VMs (all have Microsoft Windows 2008 as guest OS, except one) on new server and trying to completing their configuration before start migration of old software, portal and database to new infrastructure. Our AD/DNS installed […]

Updated: February 16, 2011 — 10:31 AM

NFS on Windows Server 2008 R2

As usual I have reconfigured my home lab and again I start with configuring my Starwind iSCSI Target with no problem at all, It’s easy, fast and reliable at least in my home lab I get a good answer from it. I’m using this software to provide iSCSI targets to my ESXi hosts and placing […]

Updated: February 7, 2011 — 2:35 AM

Running two VMware ESXi 4.1 on only 2GB RAM

Hi, During my testing VMware ESXi 4.1 which is the last version currently, I’ve installed it on two VM on my VMware Workstation 7.1 which supporting ESX 4.0 as guest OS. The system I’m used on my working place have Intel E5300 CPU, 2GB DDR2 Memory and running Windows XP SP3. There are some good […]

Updated: September 21, 2010 — 4:27 PM

VMware Workstation 7.1 and Hyper-V on the Windows Server 2008 R2

Some days ago, I get one HP DL380 G5 server from one of my friends in project which we all working on it (he is our project manager), so I can install and test Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 edition as well as new feature in Hyper-V. I had installed and worked a little with […]

Updated: June 24, 2010 — 4:27 AM

Microsoft Windows Server Time Problem

This is the another listen learn from my project in data center as well as reminder for myself. After few months of installation and configuring all systems and servers, the times on Microsoft windows servers changed and there’s 1-hour missed. All system configured to get their time config from NTP server in data center, all […]

Updated: May 17, 2010 — 6:33 PM

S-001

Hi, Just as I said before, I start posting the summary here. So, let start it now, this post contain some info about: Result of wrong OS type installation in VM with different OS type VMware HA (Design, fail-over, …) Result of wrong OS type installation in VM with different OS type One configuration/step during […]

Updated: February 23, 2010 — 1:50 AM