Surgically eliminating Windows Installer app repairs
My colleague, Jacques Bensimon sent over this fantastic write up on a common error scenario that probably has plagued us all at one time or another. Thanks for…
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Troubleshooting vCenter Service startup issues
There are lots of reasons a vCenter Service would not start up. The usual suspect is an unavailable SQL database. ESPECIALLY when the SQL database is LOCAL to…
Removing VMware Site Recovery Manager Site IDs from vCenter.
If you have ever installed VMware’s Site Recovery Manager 4 in a Many to One failover configuration, you know that a single SRM installation can multiple Site IDs. …
How to Split a Netscaler AGEE Pair up Safely.
Post by Sam Jacobs: Summary This post explains how to (safely!) split a Netscaler (AGEE) High-Availability (HA) pair. Background An AGEE HA pair functions in an active/passive mode,…
Installing VMware Site Recovery Manager : Please wait while setup is initializing…
Does this screen look familiar? Double clicking the SRM installation executable and you will be presented with this familiar initialization bar. The issue is that it will NEVER…
Hyper-V Networking
If you are familiar with VMware’s style of networking, with their port groups, vSwitches and native teaming, then Hyper-V’s networking might be a little intimidating. Not that you…
Creating an ESXi Installer on a USB flash key.
So you’ve read the unconfirmed warnings/rumors of ESX being end of life’d in the next version and you’ve decided to take the plunge and are about to install…
Installing the Citrix Virtual Desktop Agent on Windows 7
I have this client still rocking XenDesktop 4. For reasons too boring to explain here, we have yet to upgrade yet. We have been adding some physical machines…
P2Ving MS-DOS Machines …
Today I got a chance to P2V some DOS machines for a client looking to virtualize some VERY old, seldom used, but important enough to keep accounting data. …