Entries by Marco Drost

IPAD 2 Keyboard tips

Finally we got the IPAD 2 this week. We made a decision in December 2010 to go for an IPAD  but we decided to wait for the iPad 2. While patiently waiting for the official release date we saw that our IPAD 2 order went form pre order to back order on that day. That was a […]

PubForum Here we come!

In the next few days we (some colleagues and I) will attend PubForum. PubForum is a non-commercial event which main goal is to bring the best virtualization experts together to exchange knowledge and to establish new connections! E2E ( Expert to Expert) it is! Some of us attended Grand PubForum Frankfurt in 2010 and we […]

BIOS setting HP BL 460c g6 for VMware

For the project where i worked on lately i documented the BIOS settings i have made with the reason why. These are the BIOS settings i use for a HP BL 460c G6 blade where vSphere ESXi 4.1 will be installed on. The bold words in the left column are the options to  be adjust. […]

Veeam Monitoring ESXi CPU 102% and 103%

While using the load generator LoadGen, of DeNamiK .We got a 102% load on the physical CPU of the ESXi host according to de VEEAM Monitoring. The LoadGen is used  to simulate users activities on several Citrix virtual machines to see how many users can be active on one Citrix virtual machine and eventually on […]

Veeam search failed to make a test crawl

When you are installing Veeam search server according to Veeam Backup & replication 5.0 page 41 it says use a administrator account. When you are preparing for file browsing and advanced searching (page 165) you will add the search server to the Veeam Back-up Enterprise Manager. You can get this error while going trough the […]

VEEAM installation rights during Veeam Enterprise manager installation

When installing (reinstalling) Veeam Enterprise manager after installing Veeam back-up enterprise on the same system and connected to the same database system i got this error: Veeam Backup datatbase found on <servername> SQL server instance but is not accessible.   Marco DrostWas once an enthusiastic PepperByte employee but is now working elsewhere. His blogs are […]

VMFS permission Access denied and VM’s are running.

In a upgrade process form ESX 4.0 to ESXi 4.1 we reinstalled a Blade servers(BL 460c G6) by script. In our update process steps there is a step Un-present all LUN that are presented to the related host. This is done to be sure that the installation will not install on a LUN that is […]

Scripted install VMware ESXi on HP Blade hardware

Today we got to the second stage of upgrading the customer VMware environment. The first stage was the test and Development cluster. This cluster consists 6 HP DL 380 G5 rack mounted servers and with the install script we have made it was a peace of cake! In stage 2 we upgrade (by reinstallation) a […]

See Twitter conversations as a network

When you go to this link: http://apps.asterisq.com/mentionmap and type a twitter username u can see the network of that twitter account like a mindmap. You’re looking at a map of mentions. Each user is connected to the people and hashtags they mentioned the most in recent tweets. When you click a node you can explore […]

Storage vMotion error Fast Suspend and Resume not initialize

I tried to storage vMotion a VM to another Datastore. But i got a error that the VM was not ready for the migration because the Fast Suspend and Resume (FSR) was not able to be initialize. See error below. This error was not given directly but during the process it was given.   Marco […]