Tag: Troubleshooting

Azure Troubleshooting with Mike Nelson (@nelmedia)

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Mike Nelson joins the Azure Foundation series to walk through troubleshooting an Azure environment. You can find Mike on Twitter at https://www.twitter.com/nelmedia http://cloudharmony.com/speedtest-for-aws https://azurespeedtest.azurewebsites.net/ https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/resources/templates/azure-resource-optimization-toolkit/ *About vBrownBag* SUBSCRIBE! http://bit.ly/vBBYoutube Socials: Twitter: https://twitter.com/vBrownBag Facebook: https://facebook.com/vBrownBag iTunes: http://bit.ly/vbrownbagitunes Google+: google.com/+vBrownBag https://vBrownBag.com is a community of people who believe in helping other people. Specifically we work in IT
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VMware vRealize Operations Manager: From Zero to Useful by Thom Greene (@tbgree00)

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Thom Greene continues the “From Zero to Useful” series as he walks through configuration, design, and deployment of vRealize Operations Manager. Once configured, we dive into performing a health check of a virtual machine. Links from the show can be found at www.thomgreene.com/vrops Thom’s blog: www.thomgreene.com Github.com/tbgree00 twitter: @tbgree00

#vBrownBag Follow-Up VCP6 Foundation Exam Section 6 with Mike Wilson (@IT_Muscle)

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Mike Wilson is back to discuss troubleshooting in vSphere 6. VCP6 Troubleshooting Video Objective 6.1 – General troubleshooting steps, log locations – Demo includes ESXi health monitor, export information Objective 6.2 – Review common storage, network, VM issues including resource contention, identifying when virtual machines do not have access to enough resources – Demo includes
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#vBrownBag VCP-NV Follow-Up Objective 8 with Lawrence Kohan (@lawrencekohan)

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Lawrence Kohan covers objective 8 of the VMware VCP-NV exam. Objectives include 8.1 – Configure Roles, Permissions, and Scopes 8.2 – Describe NSX Automation 8.3 – Monitor a VMware NSX Implementation 8.4 – Perform Auditing and Compliance 8.5 – Administer Logging 8.6 – Backup and Recover Configurations VCP-NV Objective 8 Video You can follow Lawrence
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#vBrownBag Follow-Up IPv6 with Wireshark with Jeff Carrell (@JeffCarrell_v6)

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Jeff Carrell returns to show you IPv6 through a Wireshark lens. Video You can follow Jeffrey on Twitter @JeffCarrell_v6 as well as his website http://www.teachmeipv6.com/ Originally published at https://vbrownbag.comm – Sign up for the live #vBrownBag broadcast at https://vbrownbag.comm/brownbags/ where you can also get updates and view all of our episodes including the Automate All The Things series (https://vbrownbag.comm/vbrownbag-automate-all-the-things-training-schedule/),
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Upcoming VMware Log Insight Manager with Steve Flanders (@smflanders) #vBrownBag

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Every application and device, whether compute, network, or storage; physical or virtual; Windows or Linux, generates log messages. Messages from any single application or device contain useful information including auditing, statistics, and errors. When messages from multiple applications and/or devices are aggregated, a large amount of knowledge can be obtained if the information can be
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2013-06-20 ProfessionalVMware #vBrownBag LATAM #VCAP DCA guía de estudio y otros recursos

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The following content is in Spanish, the language in which the webinar is presented. El 20 de junio 2013 en ProfessionalVMware #vBrownBag LATAM se presentó el tema VCAP DCA guía de estudio y otros recursos VMware VCAP Certification Exam Prep by Andy Cary details how to prepare including exam format & resources http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4RIJf-stO0 RECURSOS MENCIONADOS:
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2013-06-13 ProfessionalVMware #vBrownBag LATAM #VCAP DCA 6.2 – Troubleshoot Memory Performance @elnemesisdivina

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The following content is in Spanish, the language in which the webinar is presented. El pasado 13 de junio 2013 en ProfessionalVMware #vBrownBag LATAM @elnemesisdivina presentó el tema #VCAP DCA 6.2 – Troubleshoot Memory Performance Recursos y respuestas a algunas preguntas del público durante la sesión: A: Understanding Memory Resource Management in vSphere 5 http://blogs.vmware.com/performance/2011/09/understanding-memory-resource-management-in-vsphere-5.html
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2013-06-06 ProfessionalVMware #vBrownBag LATAM #VCAP DCA 6.2 – Troubleshoot CPU Performance @elnemesisdivina

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The following content is in Spanish, the language in which the webinar is presented. El pasado 6 de junio 2013 en ProfessionalVMware #vBrownBag LATAM @elnemesisdivina presentó el tema #VCAP DCA6.2 Troubleshoot CPU & Memory Performance

Resource Pool Pie – The Warning

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Was segregating out some of my home lab stuff from some of the nested things in the lab and came across this when dropping a VM into the vApp: Basically telling me that this single VM will eat all of the Resource Pool Pie. Not familiar with the resource pool pie? Check out this post
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Did My Virtual Machines Dance? – DRS History

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Once you turn DRS on and set it to fully automatic, unless you have some affinity / anti-affinity rules in place, your VMs will get up and dance around your cluster. In most cases this is fine and dandy. However, occasionally there are times where you will want to know where the VM was, where
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After vCenter 5.0 U1 Upgrade, vCO Client Issues

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For better or worse, I run my vCO Client from the vCenter Server in my lab, up till today, that wasn’t an issue either. That is, after upgrading to vCenter 5.0 U1 I was presented with: “You may not have the appropriate permissions.” – What? Ok… let’s browse to the directory: Even after clicking “Continue”
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[VUM] Configure Update Manager to use a Service Account

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There are a few situations you might want to do this, security and least privileged accounts comes to mind, as does auditability. However, you will also need to do this when your SQL server is using Windows Authentication. Otherwise you’ll run into: “There was an error connecting to VMware Update Manager… Database temporarily unavailable or
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vSphere Management Assistant (vMA) 5.0 – Active Directory Integration

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I’ve talked about vMA and Active Directory (AD) integration before, also upgrading and troubleshooting it. This time out, we’re going to talk about doing this on vMA 5.0. I’ll start with the assumption that you’ve deployed vMA already. Attaching vMA 5.0 to Active Directory (AD) Make sure vMA is in DNS Make sure vMA is
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Orchestrator – vCO Interdependencies Map

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Going over some of the vCO book material I found this diagram I made for the troubleshooting system of the vCO book Basically, it lists out most of the various systems that the vCO engine talks to or depends on out of the box. Useful when you have something that died and you’re not sure
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BrownBag Follow-Up: VCAP-DCA Objective 6.2

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On 8/3 we talked vSphere performance as it relates to the VCAP-DCA exam. Specifically objective 6.2 on the exam blueprint. We also had special guest Hersey Cartwright along for the ride. First the Video, then some of the links: The Video ProfessionalVMware BrownBag – VCAP-DCA Objective 6.2 from ProfessionalVMware on Vimeo. The Links Generating Load
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BrownBag – VCAP-DCA Objective 6 Performance

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For this week’s BrownBag we’ve scored Hersey Cartwright to come talk to us about vSphere performance as it relates to the VCAP-DCA. Hersey has a little over 20 years experience in system and network administration. Currently he is the Network Operations Manager for a community Credit Union located in Southeastern, VA. he is responsible for
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Installing the SQL Native Client for vCenter ODBC

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Oh my… when it comes to tasks that are set and forget, this one was mostly forget. Not so much setting up the ODBC Connection, rather installing the SQL Native Client ODBC Driver for SQL 2008 when SQL is running on a host other than vCenter. Finding the installation The link in the sources below
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Windows Live Writer 500 Error & WordPress (Fixed)

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I can’t say this will fix it for everyone, or will even be the cause of your 500 error. Earlier today an epic battle played out between Windows Live Writer and the WordPress install this site sits on. More specifically, I was greeted with a “500 Server Error”. In my server logs I found the
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