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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
We’ve got a Samba server running on a CentOS 6.7 server. As part of the CentOS 6.7 upgrade a new Samba package was also installed. The packages were specifically: samba-common-3.6.23-20.el6.x86_64 samba-winbind-clients-3.6.23-20.el6.x86_64 samba-client-3.6.23-20.el6.x86_64 samba4-libs-4.0.0-66.el6_6.rc4.x86_64 samba-winbind-3.6.23-20.el6.x86_64 samba-3.6.23-20.el6.x86_64 Our Samba server is tied into a Windows 2003 Domain and we use groups to provide access to the shares … Read more
Recently started replacing my microSD’s I use for some Raspberry Pi’s with the new Samsung EVO line of microSD card and figured I’d do some benchmarks. I’m sure you can find much better write-ups online but here are my results from some quick benches using CrystalDiskMark 5.0.2 64-bit on Windows 10 64- bit using a … Read more