I recently acquired a couple of Dell R640 servers for my ESXi home lab and was in need of a rack solution. After spending some time looking for a small 4-post rack that could support the 30″ rails for my servers, I stumbled across the AEONS 18U server rack on Amazon. The price was under
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Lately, I’ve been looking into various home lab options and the idea of using a mini PC seems pretty appealing. I have a relatively small home office and I like the idea of a small and quiet computer that can easily be tucked away out of sight or mounted behind my monitor. I stumbled across
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Recently I saw an issue arise that caused an inability to access to a vSAN SMB share. The error we received when accessing the vSAN SMB share is below: “<Share Path> is not accessible. You might not have permission to this resource. Contact the administrator of this server to find out if you have access
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Lately I’ve been rolling out vSAN File Services (vSAN FS) to my ROBO sites. It’s been a fairly smooth endeavor, but I’ve noticed a few quirks related to patching with Lifecycle Manager. Below are some of the problems patching 2-node vSAN File Services clusters I encountered and the solutions I found. Unable to remediate from
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Microsoft brought back the Ignite Skills challenge for 2021. This is a great program that will allow individuals or teams to pick up free azure training and an exam voucher. You need to act fast though, the deadline to complete the challenge is November 30th. Link is below: Ignite Skills challenge for 2021
Recently I’ve been looking for ways to shrink the footprint of our File Servers and NAS devices at our ROBO sites. So when vSAN 7.0U3 announced access based enumeration for SMB file shares, it sounded like a good time to give it a try. The set up was pretty straight forward… Enable the service, fill
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From time to time I have application owners ask for performance metrics on VM’s. In environments that run vRops or other monitoring tools this is usually and easy task, but every so often these request are for test environments or legacy environments that we don’t have monitoring tools enabled or available. If its one server
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Over the summer I was pulled into a kick off meeting for a small migration project and tasked with finding a solution to migrate around 150 VM’s from another companies datacenter to ours. The conversation went something like this… “Hey Greg we need you to come up with a solution to move these VM’s, by
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VMware announced vSAN 7 Update 1 and this update offers some great features and quality of life improvements. I’m particularly excited about the new shared witness feature for 2-node vSAN clusters since this should not only free up compute and storage for other VM’s but it will also make maintenance easier by having less appliances
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This is it… Hello World! I’ve spent the last 10+ years working with virtual infrastructure and I feel this is a good time to start sharing some of the knowledge and experiences I’ve picked up along the way. Now that this short and sweet intro is in the books it’s time to get to work!