Nexenta stats running sample VMware Data Recovery backup

Following my Nexenta storage for the vLab article. I was asked how my ARC and L2ARC where doing. Here are two more screenshots that I just took on my infrastructure, while doing the initial backup of a 40GB virtual machine with VMware Data Recovery. I had the Nexenta...

vCenter VM Hardware Upgrade results in Hung vCenter services

Yesterday, while upgrading a new vCenter virtual machine that was created on an ESX 3.5 host, to a new ESXi 5.0 host, we found ourself with a VM that was refusing to start any services. The virtual machine is running Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 vCenter 5.0 Update 1 SQL...

Upgrading vCloud Director Cell from RHEL 5.6 to RHEL 5.7

With the release of vCloud Director 1.5.1 last night, the operating system for the vCloud Director Cell now supports Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.7 (x86_64). If you are running your current cell with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.6, and you want to upgrade to the most...

vCenter Operations Manager 5 vApp Start Order settings

When you deploy the vCenter Operations Manager 5.0 vApp in a vSphere 5 Cluster, the vApp import creates a few settings. Here is the screenshot of the default start order. I’m adding this post, because in the past few days I have had to do a Storage vMotion of...