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Upgrading vCenter recently from vCenter 5.5 to 60.u1 and the upgrade would consistently fail displaying two error messages. First it would display “An error occurred while invoking external command: ‘Database instance not defined for mssql provider’” Then the installation would appear to proceed until it got to installing the VCSServiceManager. Then I would get Error … Read more
We use SnapManager for Exchange and NetApp Single Mailbox Recovery to backup our Exchange 2010 environment. We’ve noticed that randomly our backups will fail with a verification error. The backups are still good and the failure usually happens 2-3 times in a row and then doesn’t happen again for a month. NetApp has a KB … Read more
I was building out our vSphere 5.5u2 Cluster today by repurposing one of our hold Hyper-V Nodes. The system in question is a Dell R820 with the latest BIOS (2.3.2) with quad Xeon E5-4607’s. After building up the node, joining it to the cluster and doing some sanity checks I was ready to re-distribute our … Read more