VSAN and the LSI SAS 9300-4i Host Bus Adapter

As part of my VSAN Cluster that I’m building, I wanted to dig deeper and test hte LSI Host Bus Adapters. These cards have been used extensively in past few years with storage appliances that migrate the mangement, compute and error handling to the operating...

Changing Windows uppercase hostnames to lowercase

Working with Windows is not always easy. Windows has it’s quirks. One of them is that sometimes some server will show up in management consoles in Uppercase, and others in lowercase. Microsoft keeps saying that Windows will recognize both Uppercase only hostname...

HA Configuration error following VIB install.

I ran into a strange problem with my InfiniBand infrastructure. For some reason, one of my ESXi host would not enter a configured HA mode. I kept getting the “Cannot upgrade vCenter agent on host. Unknow installer error”. In my post on how to installing...