Recently, I was setting up a Veeam SureBackup job for a client and received an error when running the application group for the domain controllers, which will be the cornerstone of all the other SureBackup jobs. The job would run…
Now that a Platform Services Controller installed, and vCenter Server installed; it's time to configure single sign-on sources for our SSO domain. SSO, or Single Sign On, was introduced in vSphere 5.1 and provides a more secure way of authenticating…
Yesterday Eric Seibert, Eric Wright, and John Troyer announced live the top 25 vBlog results for 2016. If you missed it, you can watch the recording here and see the post here. Obviously, I am not in the top 25…
Now that the Platform Services Controller (PSC) is installed, it's time to install the vCenter server. For the lab, we will be installing vCenter 6 onto Windows 2012 R2. After mounting the ISO image, autorun will give us the option…
Objective 1.2 deals with the managing infrastructure. In this blog, I will cover the installation of a Platform Services Controller on a dedicated server, instead of the simple install option, where the PSC is deployed with vCenter on the same…
Today I logged into my lab after a power outage and noticed that vCenter was not up. I accessed to host directly, and opened to console to the VCSA server. The VCSA server was not able to mount the filesystem,…
. Disaster Recovery. It's a phrase that's tossed around IT circles like candy at a parade. Everyone wants it, and lots of vendors offer it. What exactly is it? Seems simple enough to answer - Disaster Recovery is the ability…