Here's a light one to end the week in a good mood! Expect no complex engineering though, PowerCLI scripts to manage snapshots must be very common around! I manage a small environment where uber-scripting skills are not required. But for the sake of efficiency, laziness and "intellectual effort", here's what
Server Virtualization Workshop
Right after passing my VCP5 last week I was contacted by a colleague from Slovakia who asked if I could provide an presentation to VMware vSphere. I liked the idea and asked in our team if someone would like to attend as well. Another colleague who's currently in a desktop
VMware Site Recovery Manager 5 installation fails with the error: Failed to update Perl installation directories.
Hello, A little article to start the week with. Mondays can't be boring! While installing VMware Site Recovery Manager 5 installation on Windows 2008 R2 I was stuck with the following error at the very end of the install procedure : Failed to update Perl installation directories. After two more
Fix for sluggish iPhone 3G on iOS 4.2.1
EDIT 28-Sep-2011 : Do not take this as a definitive fix. I need to hard reset my phone every day with 4.2.1 – The reasons why I wanted 4.2.1 were very questionable (tilt-shift filter capacity in instagram!), therefore a revert to 3.1.3 is planned, and so is the purchase of
DoubleTake (HP Storage Mirroring Recover) x64 – Memory leak issue in version 5.2.2.1741 (fixed)
Dears, more than 10 months and I haven't posted anything! I've been extremely busy, to say the least. Family life and ramping up work projects take their toll on free time, hobbies and blogging. My family sees me rarely enough so I don't want to deprive them of these rare
A quick spring update + ask your questions by twitter
Dear visitors, I hope you have been well. Time flies at the speed of light, and I realize that my last blog post was written two months ago, with the latest significant IT-related post being at least 4 months old. Saying that I've been pretty busy is the very least
The 33 keywords of death on Twitter
Hey all! Just for fun, I will divert from technical blogging to celebrate the end of 2010 with a bit of humor. I've done some cleanup today on my main twitter account because of huge amounts of spam on my timeline. While removing accounts I came accross a very interesting pattern
Automated Tape Withdrawal with EMC Networker
NOTE: As of today, I am still solving several issues related to this that are peculiar to the way EMC Networker is implemented. Expect more updates on this issue. Recently I've been designing a Backup GFS Rotation with EMC Networker (GFS Stands for Grandfather-Father-Son, google will be your friend).
Sony XPeria X10 – A tale of (android) love and (sony) hate
For a change, a blog post about the hype geek world of smartphones. Pardon the disgression! I've been swapping phones with a friend in early august. He got my iPhone 3G (of which I was getting sick tired of) and I got his brand new Sony-Ericsson XPeria X10. Android, I
Website Refresh / Consulting Services
Dear visitors, I've just proceeded to a slight website refresh, you'll notice that I've removed the annoying ads from the website and that I've made the site (hopefully) easier to read and clearer. In addition to this, I've decided to share my knowledge with businesses by offering consulting services. Please
vSphere 4.0 on-the-fly netmask / gateway change
Today we had planned to merge two VLANs and to reassign the netmask and gateway settings to one of our ESX servers and to all the virtuals in it. Due to a misunderstanding our network engineer (located in UK) performed the changes ahead of us modifying the settings on the
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
Aka VMware Consolidated Backup (The Good), EMC Networker (The Bad) and HP SMVI Recover (The Ugly). Put these three guys together and you're done with long, boring evenings! For those who don't know SMVI Recover, it's Storage Mirroring Recover for Virtual Infrastructure, the heir of Storage Mirroring for Virtual Infrastructure
Compare and reconciliate data from two Excel lists
Addendum : I've been asked what is the point of this script when excel offers the VLOOKUP function. The aim of this script is to scan lists that cannot be sorted for several reasons (e.g. chronological data). Besides my activities as system administrator, I am also known (most probably
Unable to connect when starting HP Insight Diagnostics on HP SmartStart 8.40
If you encouter this issue with the HP SmartStart 8.40 CD (unable to connect, http://127.0.0.1:2381), this means that you have plugged in NICs. For some obscure reason HP Insight Diagnostics won’t run if you have active NICs on your system, therefore unplug all network cables from your server and restart
Where all the good things are…
Dear friends, it’s been a while since my last post. I have been busy both in my personal life and at work. On the personal front, I have been dealing with : – getting my driver license (finally!) – moving to a larger, better flat (in prevision for baby arrival