DIY LED Accent Lights for Your Home: A Step-by-Step Guide
Inspired by Ben’s awesome video on LED lights on his house, I decided to something similar. My approach is more off the shelf than his and I give…
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VMware SRM–After failover, LUNs still have ‘snap-xxxxxxx’ in the name
VMware’s Site Recovery Manager is a great product! Allowing companies to protect and failover in the event of a disaster is amazing. The ability to test these plans…
VCSA 6.5 Fails to start. File System and then Network Service errors.
This is basically a repost of Paolo Valsecchi’s excellent blog post (https://nolabnoparty.com/en/vcsa-6-5-fails-to-start-file-system-check-and-network-service-errors/). I ran into this issue today with a client and then commands are so obscure (to…
Those are some BIG log files you have there buddy!
Sometimes a well run, stable production environment that runs and runs and runs is hiding some hidden dangers from you. My client was recently doing some housekeeping on…
Upgrading your Data Domain OS
Today I ran into a replication issue between 2 Data Domain that showed up as VERY slow transfer rates between sites. After working with EMC support, it was…
Pushing the NVIDIA Grid VIB to vSphere using Update Manager for vGPUs.
I’ve been working with a customer getting the NVIDIA Tesla M60 cards working in their environment and compiled some great information for those of you looking into this.…
Installing SRM–Time Error when connecting to PCS
While installing SRM at a client, I ran into an issue where I could not connected to the PCS. The setup returned an error stating the time between…
Stopping that unstoppable service!
A client (and friend) contacted me recently with a challenge. Following what we assume was a bad pattern update, his Microsoft System Center Endpoint Protection service (aka Forefront…
Removing a Node (or 3) from a Nutanix Cluster
Recently, I had to retire some nodes from a client’s Nutanix cluster. We were recycling 3 out of the 6 nodes down to DR in this particular case. …