Recent content by cabraun

Save yourself a lot of pain and frustration and just create a new 2008R2 VM and DCPromo it. Transfer any FSMO roles that the old DC has to one of the 2008R2 DCs and demote the old one when done. Make sure both your VM DCs are pointing to a reliable external time source (not getting time from...

Please disregard this question. I have got it all sorts of figured out.

So, I am not a group policy maven at all but I need to set a system environment variable and the value will be based on the username. For example: Username / System Variable / Value MJones / workstation / 1 BSmith / workstation / 2 CEdwards / workstation / 3 etc... None of the users are, nor...

Have you checked any of the suggested problems/fixes here > http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=Unable+to+connect+to+MKS+-+internal+error

I seem to average between 3.75-4TB / hr writing to my 6 X LTO6 drive library. Much faster than what most people would get with a backup to disk target which is typically not an SSD array but more often some array of NL-SAS drives. Granted reading and restoring from disk is considerably faster...

As long as tape remains the least expensive and fastest backup target, it will never die and I am just fine with that.

Well good luck getting anyone to reply to your query now. I know I certainly wont.

Seems like your boot partition got jacked up as part of your process. Did you change the controller perhaps to/from paravirtual/lsi logic or something when you changed the drive size? Regardless, your best hope is to try to rebuild your boot record: 1.Boot Windows 2008 R2 CD 2.Select repair...

*-flat.vmdk is the actual virtual disk file itself. It is not visible from the datastore browser of the vSphere Client. The file that you see when you browse a datastore and see your servername.vmdk is just metadata about the virtual disk such as sector information, size, alignment etc. It...

If you have 1 VM at version 10 and all the others are 4, 7, 8, vmx9 and you really want the 1 other to match one of those other versions, you can try to V2V the troublesome using the VMware Standalone Converter and during the process you will be asked what hardware version you want. If 5.5...

You converted your host. You upgraded your VM and you updated your vCenter and now you want to downgrade one or all? Not exactly clear. Bottom line though is that 5.5 is the last vSphere version that will have any form of the old C# vSphere Client and it is all web going forward, so you might...

Here is the description of RVTools from the website. Even if it doesn't suite your particular need, I am certain that every VMware Admin can make great use of it. RVTools is a windows .NET 2.0 application which uses the VI SDK to display information about your virtual machines and ESX hosts...

Check out RVTools from http://www.robware.net/ You can run it against your stand alone boxes as well as your vCenter to capture all the info for those hosts and VMs managed by vCenter. It is an awesome tool and yes it is FREE!!! It will capture information about your hosts and VMs right down...

VMware HA does great with your typical application / web / file / print etc servers. You lose a host, within 60-90 seconds the VMs that were on the lost host are running again on a different host, provided you are N+1 or better. Database servers like Exchange, SQL, Oracle etc will not be as...

If you are snapshoting your DC you are just asking for trouble. I set all my virtualized DCs vmdk's to be independant persistent and therefore un-snapshotable. I don't even want anyone to possibly even consider the idea of snapping a DC and then reverting back at some point later. Talk about...