Year: 2016

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Site Recovery Manager 5.8.1.1 Express Patch Release

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Couple of months ago I posted an SRM Fault which were observing in the environment  –   Protection Group summary page shows 25 VMs as not configured. When checked in the in protection group, VMs with warnings are not getting displayed Click Here.  VMware has released Express Patch for SRM 5.8.1…Continue readingSite Recovery Manager 5.8.1.1 Express Patch Release

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VMware vCenter Server Appliance 6.0 Reference Poster

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VMware has recently published VMware vCenter Server Appliance 6.0 Reference Poster. Click Here It has 12 Sections. I found it very helpful and good initiative, looking at the direction which they have been recommending all Customers to use Appliance instead of Windows based vCenter Hardware Requirements – KB 2106572 Storage…Continue readingVMware vCenter Server Appliance 6.0 Reference Poster

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Automate PowerCLI Install using Powershell

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I had a requirement to automate PowerCLI installation with minimal manual involvement possible I found the syntax mentioned below from Here Prerequisites Download and Copy the executable to shared location Ensure the access is configured Install PowerCLI Syntax Set-executionPolicy RemoteSigned -Confirm:$false -force Write-Host \”Installing PowerCLI\” $myargs = $myargs = \’/q…Continue readingAutomate PowerCLI Install using Powershell

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Microsoft Convenience Update and VMware VMXNet3 Incompatibilities KB Article Updated

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Earlier I shared the incompatibilities with VMXNet3 – bit.ly/1sQhHVi Looks like Microsoft KB was updated yesterday with a work around for the same Known issue 1 Symptoms A new Ethernet vNIC may be created with default settings in place of the previously existing vNIC, causing network issues. Any custom settings…Continue readingMicrosoft Convenience Update and VMware VMXNet3 Incompatibilities KB Article Updated

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Operations Differences for various vSphere & SRM versions

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I wrote an article back in 2013 for vSphere & SRM 5.5  – http://bit.ly/29uhLSh so I thought of updating it with version 6.0 Component 6 5.5 5.1 5 Virtual CPUs per virtual machine (Virtual SMP) 128 64 64 32 RAM per virtual machine 4 TB 1TB 1TB 1TB Virtual disk…Continue readingOperations Differences for various vSphere & SRM versions

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Configuration Maximums for various vSphere & SRM versions

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I wrote an article back in 2013 for vSphere & SRM 5.5  http://bit.ly/297GXQ3 so I thought of updating it with version 6.0 Component 6 5.5 5.1 5 4.1 4 Virtual CPUs per virtual machine (Virtual SMP) 128 64 64 32 8 8 RAM per virtual machine 4 TB 1TB 1TB…Continue readingConfiguration Maximums for various vSphere & SRM versions

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Unable to Detect NFS Datastores in VMware SRM

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Setup VMware vCenter 5.1 Update 3a SRM 5.1.3 ESXi 5.1 Update3 Issue When trying to configure SRM we were unable to detect NFS datastores Analysis Upon analysis we figured out that there was mismatch between NetApp SRA configuration and ESXi. NetApp  SRA had IP Address of NFS Server and Datastores…Continue readingUnable to Detect NFS Datastores in VMware SRM

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Unable to Protect VM with Snapshots in VMware SRM

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Setup VMware vCenter 5.5 Update 3a SRM 5.5.1 ESXi 5.1 Update3 Issue When trying to Configure Protection for the VM it goes till 99% after getting an error. The error details Internal error: Received unexpected exception from multi-site operation. Analysis We tried usual steps such as Restarting SRM Service/Server Ensure…Continue readingUnable to Protect VM with Snapshots in VMware SRM