Archive for February, 2009
NT Backup on is not longer there. It has a new name called "Windows Server Backup". To install Windows Server Backup. Start>>Admintools>>server manager.From here click on Features. Add Feature "Windows Server Backup Features". To Start Programs > Administrative Tools > Windows server backup. Thats it, mmm yeh only disk imaging.
To view your current multipathing configuration, log on to your ESX Server machine as root and enter: vmkmultipath -qThe output lists all known paths to each SAN LUN., The default policy in ESX Server 2.0.1 is fixed and the default policy in ESX Server 2.1 is MRU.
To configure a proper highly available SAN failover configuration with EMC storage models equipped with two storage processors, each ESX Server must have: Two Fibre Channel host bus adapters (HBAs), such as QLogic or Emulex. Two fibre switches. Two storage processors (SPs): SPA and SPB. Each storage processor must have at least two ports connected [...]
To view storage processors and related ports on the preferred path, log on to your ESX Server machine as root and enter the following command: wwpn.pl -v The output lists the World Wide Port Names (WWPNs) of HBAs on your ESX Server and storage processors. The target numbers and WWPNs must be identical as seen [...]
Recently I did have some problems because a small SharePoint farm lost its moss 2007 server used for indexing and search and central administration. The Web front end and SQL server are still running so the end user was able to get to al the information. Only administration could not be done. How to get [...]
Resize your virtual disk Vmware ESX 2.5.4 : Making it bigger: vmkfstools -X disksizeG /vmfs/lunname(vmhba0\:0\:0\:0)/your.vmdk Making it smaller: vmkfstools -X disksizeG /vmfs/lunname(vmhba0\:0\:0\:0)/your.vmdk –forceVmware Workstation Workstation: Making it smaller: C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware Workstation>vmware-vdiskmanager.exe –k your.vmdk Making it bigger: C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware Workstation>vmware-vdiskmanager.exe –x disksizeG your.vmdk The next step (after disk enlargemend) is to make the space avaleble to the OS. [...]