VMware vCloud Director Cannot Import VM to vApp
I ran into an issue recently with vCloud Director 8.20.0.5070630 while trying to import a virtual…
VMware vCloud Director Cannot Delete Additional Network Specifications
Within VMware vCloud Director you have the option of creating additional secondary subnets within an External…
Backup VMware VCSA vPostgress Database to cifs share
One of the components that the VMware vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) is missing, is the ability…
This version of vCenter Server does not support Deploy OVF Template
If you are running VMware vCenter 6.5 Build Number 4944578 or below and you try to…
VMware vCloud Director NSX Tenant Portal Firewall Logs
VMware has released vCloud Director 8.2 for Service Providers which now includes a new HTML5 interface…
Cisco Nexus 5500 Input Packet Discard Troubleshooting
We upgraded a pair of Cisco Nexus 5K switches early last week which had been running…
Netapp C-Mode Certificate Renewal
In this tutorial I will show you how to renewal a Netapp vserver certificate via the…
Veeam the given key was not present in the dictionary
I came across this error message the other day when configuring a Veeam Replication job with…
VMware vRealize Log Insight Installation and Configuration
VMware vRealize Log Insight is an easy to use virtual appliance that collaborates and manages real-time…
The vSphere server with UUID was not found on this cloud instance
I was creating some powercli scripts to help import virtual machines from vcenter into vcloud director the other…
Netapp Altavault Data Throughput Reduces Randomly
We have come across a very bizarre issue whereby front-end data throughput to a Netapp Altavault…
How to migrate an SQL Cluster from Netapp 7-mode to c-mode
In this video tutorial, I dive into my lab and guide you through the steps involved…
Netapp csm.sessionFailed:warning
I was looking through a bunch of syslog messages for our c-mode systems the other day…
FileManager.makeDirectory VMware vCenter Error
The other day I was working on a customer VMware vCenter server along with some Netapp…
Netapp Ontap 9 Data Compaction
One of the buzz words around Netapp Ontap 9 is the new feature of data compaction….
Netapp Ontap 9 Performance Comparison
Ontap 9 is still relatively new, only being released a few weeks ago and with all…
Netapp Ontap 9 Volume Rehost
If you have been working with Netapp Clustered Data Ontap for a while now you would…
Cisco Nexus 9K are not FCoE NPIV core switches
The Cisco Nexus 9K’s have been out for a little while now, however it has only…
Netapp Disk Bad Label Version
If you are taking non-zeroed disks from a later version of Netapp Data Ontap and placing…
Netapp Tech Ontap Podcast
If you haven’t listened or subscribed to the Netapp Tech Ontap Podcast, I highly recommend it….
Netapp Performance Manager 2.1RC1 and vSphere 5.5 install error
There is an issue installing Netapp Performance Manager 2.1RC1 on VMware vSphere 5.5 where by the…