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vSphere Upgrade Saga: Fixing VMware VDR

January 25, 2012
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I have been running VMware Data Recovery (VDR) through its paces for quite a while now and while it works, I am not sold on it yet. I have had way too many problems related to the target datastore. Specifically, a continual failed integrity check. Everything ran fine for a while and then...

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vSphere Upgrade Saga: Setting up a RHEL iSCSI Server

January 16, 2012
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When using the RHEL scsi-target-utils, there is some special mojo needed when connecting to vSphere 5 (perhaps any version of vSphere). Unlike the iSCSI Enterprise Target (IET), the new service makes use of modern iSCSI targeting techniques, and these did not work as expected...

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vSphere Upgrade Saga: Migrating Existing Hosts to vSphere 5, Host Profiles not Enough!

January 11, 2012
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This is the week end I move all my existing hosts to vSphere 5, to make way for some other work. Actually, I will migrate 2 of 3 hosts, while leaving one host at vSphere 4, more later on why. While Host Profiles has...

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vSphere Upgrade Saga: Adding New Host Crashes vCenter

January 9, 2012
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As you know from my previous post, I just added a new blade to my environment. But everything was not as clean as I desired. For some reason when...

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vSphere Upgrade Saga: New Blade, More Memory, More Problems

January 7, 2012
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I recently purchased my 4th blade and enough memory to bring 3 of my nodes to 3x what they had before. However, this upgrade was not without its issues....

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vSphere Upgrade Saga: It is All About EVC

January 3, 2012
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I was a little confused about EVC recently, and hopefully this will clear it up for many others. My vSphere 5 Upgrade has been halted due to work, family,...

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