So lets look at one of the best features brought to us in Veeam 8, Active Directory Restore Wizard. 1. Open up the restore, select application items, and then Microsoft Active Directory 2. Select your VM that you want to pull the data back from, and then your restore point for that VM. Note: I … Continue reading Veeam v8 – Active Directory Restore Wizard in action
The time is here, lets look at starting to document that network of yours. Part 1 – The foundation of any IT infrastructure Part 2 – Rack and Server Diagrams Part 3 – Network IP’s & Interfaces Part 4 – Diagramming a network Part 5 – Diagraming your (Veeam) Backups Now lets look at the other … Continue reading How to produce good documentation – Part 3 – Network IP’s & Interfaces
So my colleague rang me the other week with a bit of weird issue. After installing the VMware Horizon View Connection Server, the services do not start after installing Public SSL, and replacing the self-signed SSL. The environment Server 2012 R2 fully patched Installing Connection Server, services fine Install Public Cert (Following VMware guidelines for … Continue reading VMware Horizon View – Connection Server Services dont load with Public SSL Cert
So I hit an interesting issue whilst performing a VMware upgrade from 4.0 to 5.5. There was a legacy issue left where vCenter had lost its knowledge/configuration of the DVS Setup. Im not entirely sure what happened or when, as it was an existing environment, I only know I had to fix it. (Many thanks … Continue reading vCenter lost DVS configuration – Fixing the hosts
So we all know that we should be migrating away from Server 2003 as its end of life June 2015. But until then we still need to manage it. So lets look at how to extend your hard drives into unpartitioned space using the Dell Extpart tool. Note: This is probably not supported by VMware, … Continue reading Extending your Server 2003 Disk Partitions using Dell Extpart