This is probably one of the last blog articles this year as I’ve got two weeks of holiday! I wish you all a merry Christmas and a happy New Year! Let’s cut the crap, and start with why you are reading this… ESXi Lessons Learned: I’ve been looking into creating an unattended install for ESXi. As mentioned in Lessons Learned [...]

New week, new lessons learned… You can find part 1 here. When Jumbo Frames were introduced in ESX 3.5 a lot of people were interested but it wasn’t supported for the VMkernel which is were most people want to use it as it reduces CPU cycles used due to iSCSI/NFS traffic. When vSphere was released it was one of the [...]

I am working on a large ESXi deployment and thought I would start writing down some of the lessons learned. I will try to create a single post every week, if I can find the time that is. Scratch! There are two things that stood out the couple of days, on a technical level, when I was reading the ESXi [...]

I was delivering a Site Recovery Manager Jumpstart today. During the configuration of the Storage Replication Adapter(SRA) the task got stuck at 23%. I’ve seen the configuration of the SRA get stuck once before at 23% so I knew it was the “DiscoverLuns” command that failed for one reason or the other. We ran the configuration of the SRA again [...]

I was just reading an excellent weekly technical digest by VMware’s Michael White and noticed the mention of a KB article on SRM. This KB article has the following describtion: With VMware Site Recovery Manager 1.0 Update 1, recovery of a VM might take a long time.  The recovery time during a test or real recovery will be longer when [...]

Today I was implementing Site Recovery Manager with a colleague(Thanks Andy!!). During the configuration of the HP EVA SRA(Storage Replication Adapter) we received the following error: discoverLuns script failed to execute properly The error indicates that that the first part of the SRA configuration “discoverArrays” worked but when discovering the LUN’s and it’s replica’s it bailed out(23%). So after checking [...]

I’ve been playing around with Site Recovery Manager these last couple of days. Installing it was really easy and same goes for the basic configuration. I already wrote a blog about this topic a month ago or so but now I’ve experienced it myself. Most of the time during a Site Recover Manager project will be spent during the Plan [...]