Posts Tagged ‘Problems’

Non-standard MSSQL port causes vCenter WebServices problems

16, Jun 2011

After almost a year, I have had problems with the VMware WebServices (the Tomcat web apps packaged into vCenter server) not working properly.  At every upgrade, I have had issues where the apps that were “fixed” by support break again.  I knew I had to be doing something wrong.  I thought that vCenter was just [...]

Carefully planning ESX4 and HP Storageworks EVA

6, Jan 2010

As in my post about Lessons Learned on ESX4 rollout, we had a pretty serious hiccup with our storage and the ESX systems in December while trying to bring up our ESX4 environment.  The primary trouble uncovered was what I’ll call “controller ping-pong”. An EVA normally has two (maybe more, I’m not primarily a storage [...]

Month of silence, because of a blade enclosure

5, Mar 2009

The past month of my life has been spent dealing with the fall-out over a massive failure of our local blade enclosure.

Twas the Night Before New Years, sysadmin style

3, Jan 2009

Twas the night of new years, and all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.  The little one had passed out, and we’d put her to bed.  We had all celebrated with Carson, Dick Clark and the rest. Mom in her kerchief and I in my cap, had just settled [...]


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