VMware HP Storage CIM agent Warning
We recently setup a few ESXi hosts with the latest HP OEM ESXI build image and came across a problem with warnings on the Hardware Status tab: We contacted HP who found an issue with the HP-smx-provider. Here is the fix provided by HP: Step 1 Remove the below “VIBs” from the ....
Continue readingerror 26002. Setup failed to register VMware vCenter Server to VMware vCenter Inventory Service
Seems to be a few reasons for this error message out there. So this may not be the answer for everyone. After looking in the logs I could see these messagesCannot read VC private key file C:\ProgramData\VMware\VMware VirtualCenter\SSL\rui.keyWe had an externally signed cert. With a bit of reading it seems 5.1 relies on a few ....
Continue readingNSlookup errors during vSphere 5.1 upgrade
If you are seeing nslookup errors during the upgrade wizard, but when you test from the command line it all seems fine, the cause is probably beasue you need a reverse DNS lookup zone. Error you see is “The Fully Qualified Domain Name cannot be resolved. If you continue the installation, some features might ....
Continue readingSlow iSCSI perfromance IGB Driver HP NC365T
We recently had a problem with iSCSI performance when using some NC365T network cards. We had configured ESXi 5.0 to use the Software iSCSI initiator,Jumbo frames were enabled. Traffic was split across a single port on the NC365 card and a single onboard NIC port. The driver is listed for 82580 and I350 Gigabit Ethernet ....
Continue readingLync Server 2010 Control Panel Active Directory Operation Failed When making changes to a user
I’ve seen this problem a few times, which stumped me in the beginning, so i thought i would share with you, what it means and a resolution. ERROR In Microsoft Lync Server 2010 control panel, if you are trying to enable or disable a user you may see the following error message: Active Directory ....
Continue readingVMware View Events Database
Spent a while trying to get this to work. I am sure it is in the administration guide somewhere but this is what I found.The Events database connects using SQL authentication so the SQL Server must be configured to use Mixed Mode authentication. I have been testing with SQL express and the first clue were ....
Continue readingSQL Server Express 2008 Problems connecting on port 1433
I thought i would share this blog with anyone else who has had a similar problem. I had a requirement to install SQL Express, but was unable to connect to it locally or remotely on port 1433. What i didn’t realise is, that by default SQL Server Express 2005 and 2008 defaults to listen on dynamic ....
Continue readingView 5.1 PCoIP Blank Screen
I had an issue setting up VMware View 5.1 connections using RDP were fine but with PCoIP I got a blank screen and nothing else. We were using a security server in a DMZ so I thought it must be the firewall rules. Are triple checking I was sure they were right, but what was ....
Continue readingAPC Mail Alerts Not Working
I recently had an issue where we couldn’t get the APC management interface on a UPS to any test email alerts. I checked and double checked the mail server, DNS settings, from and to email addresses and everything looked OK.Whats more I had an APC PDU with what appeared to be identical settings which was ....
Continue readingWin2K8 RDS users Javascript issue in IE
We were helping to troubleshoot an issue recently with a Windows 2008 Terminal Server. The reported issue was users not being able click on some icons on web pages. It was assumed it was a java script problem. Administrators on the same box were working with no issues.First thing was to check if the Internet Explorer Enhanced ....
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