Enabling Tape Drives on vSphere Hosts
KB ID 0000417 Problem Over the next few weeks I’ve got a couple of Hewlett Packard LTO Ultrium 5 Tape drives to deploy with ESXi 4.1 U1. These will work just fine, there is however a problem presenting SCSI U320 drives now, so thanks to my colleague (Andrew Dorrian) for giving me the heads up on the problems I would face with older drives. Make sure you have enabled SSH access on your ESX Host. Note: With the release of vSphere...
VMware error on HP Proliant “Host Baseboard Management Controller status”
KB ID 0000418 Problem Saw this today on a HP Proliant DL380 G7 Server. Solution 1. It’s a simple one to solve, the server was built with the HP ESXi build, and the management agents are complaining because the iLO is not connected to the network. 2. When you connect the iLO socket to the network the alarm should change as shown below. 3. Once you have connected or disabled it you can reset the alarm. 4. Take the opportunity to...
Backup Exec Error – ” The backup-to-disk folder that was specified for this job must be on a local NTFS volume”
KB ID 0000574 Problem I got this when backing up to an HP RDX removable disk backup system. The drive WAS formatted as NTFS, but the job failed with the following error; Error: V-79-57344-4608 – 0xe0001200 – This operation requires a backup-to-disk folder on a local NTFS volume on the media server. Check the job log for details V-79-57344-4608 – The backup-to-disk folder that was specified for this job must be on a...
Backup Exec – Using RDX Drives
KB ID 0000578 Problem While I like RDX drives, (they have advantages over magnetic tape), but they do have a drawback, throughput. As you can see the removable drive/cartridges are just 1TB SATA Drives in a protective jacket, with a “write protection switch” on them. So they should be perfect as a backup medium, the problem is, the drive carrier itself runs off the USB bus, so they can’t run faster than 48MB a second...
HP E Series Wireless – Cannot Access Local LAN
KB ID 0000486 Problem You have an HP HP E-Series Mobility E-MSM460, 466 & 430 Access Point, and you cannot access resources on your local LAN (though internet access works fine). This is default “Out of the box” behavior, a lot of consumers want to provide wireless access but DONT want the wireless clients having access to their local servers. That’s fine but what if you do? Solution 1. Log into the web...