to upgrade from a vdr 1.x appliance: unmount any CIFS shares while the vdr appliance is idle shutdown and delete or rename vdr 1.x appliance deploy vdr 2.0 appliance configure vdr 2.0 appliance and re-add CIFS shares manually perform an integrity check there’s no method to directly upgrade a vdr 1.x appliance to a vdr […]

from within the vsphere client while looking at charts on the performance tab, you might receive “performance data is currently not available for this entity” when trying to chart weekly/monthly/etc stats. if you also happen to be using mssql on the vcenter server then there’s a good chance the sql agent isn’t running. without the […]

well, you’d think that upgrading windows server to the next release wouldn’t be too much trouble. the windows 2008 upgrade install just happens to have a problem with powershell being installed though. and most likely everyone has applied service packs or windows updates to 2003 so that powershell has snuck onto the system some way […]

1. on the drive or folder–>properties->security->advanced->auditing then add an auditing entry for the local system’s Everyone group. then choose specifically which auditing events you want to log. both “deletes” would be a good one to start out with. 2. then on the local machine–>local security policy->advanced audit policy configuration->system audit policies->object access. here you can […]

previously i believe i’d had to mess around with co-existing net-snmp (snmpd) along with the newer ESX snmp agent to get dell openmanage to work. specifically for vsphere 4.0…but i don’t think that is necessary anymore. correction: it is still necessary to get openmanage working properly, but the ESX snmp agent is fine for monitoring […]

confirmed working. whether genuine or not it has the correct layout and looked brand new. sold thru gadget-mart. http://www.amazon.com/Genuine-new-Dell-Inspiron-notebook/dp/B0043CG3QG/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1328194690&sr=8-1