VMware Octopus wallpaper
Duncan over at Yellow Bricks was nice enough to share this VMware Octopus wallpaper. Of the VMware wallpaper I have this one is my favorite for some reason.
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VMware Certified Professional 6 (VCP6-DCV) now available
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- vSphere HA and DRS Clusters
- Storage virtualization using VMFS
- Storage DRS and Storage I/O Control
- Network virtualization using vSphere standard and distributed switches and Network I/O Control
- vSphere management using vCenter Server and vRealize Operations Manager Standard
- Virtual Machines
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How to fix “SRA command discoverArrays failed” in SRM with RecoverPoint
We’ve ran into an issue trying to get VMware SRM and SRA 2.2.0.3 along with EMC Recoverpoint 4.1.2 to communicate with one another and would receive this error in SRM:
SRA command discoverArrays failed. Failed opening session for user to site mgmt IP.
Please see server logs for further details.
After some digging around a bit and talking with the Storage Team and EMC we found out that this is due to the SRA’s using HTTP by default and Recoverpoint 4.1.2 does not accept HTTP, but instead only accepts HTTPS or port 443. The steps below is how to get everything to default HTTPS and then communication will resume.
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Install ESXi 5.1 from a USB Flash Drive
Many servers already come with a DVD/CD-ROM drive or some kind of ability to virtually mount an ISO image from a network share onto your server to then install ESXi. However, not all do or you just want to have your ESXi image readily available. Here’s a quick step by step instructions on how to use a USB flash drive to install ESXi.
- Download ESXi 5.1 from VMware (if you haven’t already) as well as UNettbootin.
- Plug in your USB Flash Drive.
- Open UNetbootin and select “Diskimage”, set Type to “USB Drive”, select Drive letter of your USB flash drive, and set the path of your ESXi 5.1 ISO image. Then click on “OK”.
How to update VMware Windows VM’s DNS using PowerCLI
This post will show you how to update a VMware Windows virtual machine’s DNS IP addresses using PowerCLI.
You’ll also see how I went from a starting point to a fully working script – all thanks to the awesome #vCommunity!
Here at work we’ve been doing a number of networking, AD, and DNS changes. In doing so, our DNS IP address have changed. Changing the DNS settings for our workstations was easy, simply edit the DHCP scope.
The servers on the other hand all had static IP’s and static DNS IP’s entered, each of which needed to be updated.
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