With my background in Networking and Virtualisation, VMware’s NSX is something which interests me deeply, as such I’ve attended a handful of sessions online, and also at the UK VMUG where Chris Whal presented on the subject.
Here’s my own interpretation of this new technology.
Its software-defined networking, you don’t need to buy any hardware to implement it, although you do need a running VMware environment.
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 am actually using a restore point created in Version 7!!!!
Continue reading Veeam v8 – Active Directory Restore Wizard in action
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.
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 to the help from my good friend over at www.vmtechy.com for refreshing me on the ESX 4.0 command line to fix this).
Within the vCenter Client, on the host summary tabs.
When looking at the Virtual Machine settings.
Continue reading vCenter lost DVS configuration – Fixing the hosts
So today I was installing VMware Horizon View Composer on my Server 2012 R2 vCenter machine, where the SQL database is also local to this machine.
And I came across the below error,
"Error 1920, Service VMware Horizon View Composer (svid) failed to start. Verify that you have sufficient privileges to start the system service"
Which I something I’ve dealt with before, but I must admit I forgot the fix, and was looking into the following area’s;
Continue reading Installing VMware Horizon View Composer fails with Error 1920