Proxmox Windows Drive Missing
Proxmox Windows Drive Missing KB ID 0001871 Problem When attempting to deploy a Windows VM, in this case Server 2022, you do not see the local storage. Solution I’ve been in this situation a hundred times in the past, (usually on physical servers). The problem is simply Windows does not have the driver for the storage controller. There two ways you can approach the problem, Option 1: Proxmox Windows Drive Missing The...
Proxmox You Do Not Have a Valid Subscription
You Do Not Have a Valid Subscription KB ID 0001870 Problem I’m only just getting comfortable with Proxmox, whilst building a three node cluster recently I was pestered with this ‘nag’ dialog. You do not have a valid subscription for this server. Please visit www.proxmox.com to get a list of available options. Solution : You Do Not Have a Valid Subscription I’m using this because it’s free, Even the...
Windows Create NFS Share
Windows Create NFS Share KB ID 0001869 Problem It has been a while since I mentioned this, but if you have a Windows server, and you would like to present an NFS Share, the process is pretty straight forward. The following procedure was carried out on Windows Server 2022, but the process is pretty much the same going all the way back to Server 2012. Solution : Windows Create NFS Share Install Server for NFS (GUI) You need to add the...
Proxmox on VMware
Proxmox on VMware KB ID 0001867 Problem In the wake of Broadcom doing its best to strangle VMware and its discontinuation of free ESX. I thought I’d look at the free alternatives. Previously I looked at Nutanix (and was not over enamoured.) So the next option is Proxmox. Proxmox Virtual Environment (Proxmox VE) is a robust open-source server virtualisation platform that merges two cutting-edge virtualisation technologies Linux...
Nutanix on VMware vSphere ESX 8
Nutanix on VMware KB ID 0001866 Problem In the wake of Broadcom doing its best to strangle VMware and its discontinuation of free ESX. I thought I’d look at the free alternatives. The most obvious is Nutanix CE (Community Edition) which is both free, and lets you have up to 4 nodes – which is impressive, as Free ESX does not have clustering or access to vCenter. Honest Opinion: It’s very flaky, if you want a solution...
Nutanix: Could Not Reach Next Server
Could Not Reach Next Server KB ID 0001865 Problem Nutanix is very flaky! On a new (single host cluster,) post setup whilst attempting to login to Prism for the first time, it wanted to link to my Nutanix account. Unknown host, could not reach NEXT server. Please configure name server Solution : Could Not Reach Next Server Why do I say it’s flaky, well I defined a DNS server when I created the cluster. However, If I fired up SSH...
Camtasia Recording Quit Unexpectedly
Recording Quit Unexpectedly KB ID 0001864 Problem I use Camtasia every so often, both for sending screencasts to colleagues, and for making videos for my YouTube channel. Camtasia and Snagit are one of the few pieces of software I gladly pay for. After a recent update though every time I wanted to capture a recording, this happened. Recording Quit Unexpectedly Camtasia is unable to recover the recording. Solution: Recording Quit...
Cannot Remove vCLS Virtual Machine
Cannot Remove vCLS KB ID 0001863 Problem I had a NAS box fail on me and the NFS share it was presenting to my vSphere environment was no longer available. Which was fine, but there was a vCLS (vSphere Cluster Services) virtual machine in that datastore, that I could not get rid of, as the datastore was no longer available, and I could not remove the datastore because, (as far as VMware was concerned it had a VM in it). Solution:...
HPE MSA Cannot See LUN?
Cannot See LUN KB ID 0001862 Problem I finally got round to replacing the SAN on my test network, I setup the new one via direct cable connection (10Gbps iSCSI DAC). I created vDisks and volumes, presented those volumes. Setup iSCSI bindings in vSphere, all vanilla stuff. ESX hosts could not see the storage LUNS, they could see the SAN, but ‘add datastore’ showed me no available storage. Solution: Cannot See LUN Two...
Exchange Size Limits
Exchange Size Limits KB ID 0001368 Problem When attempting to send an email from Outlook via Exchange, you see a message like the one below. The following files weren’t attached because adding them would cause the message to exceed the maximum size limit of {Size} MB: {File-Name} Or, when someone attempts to send a message to one of your mailbox users they get an NDR that looks like this. Remote Server returned ‘550 5.2.3...