F5: Setup Basic Web Load Balancing
Aug27

F5: Setup Basic Web Load Balancing

KB ID 0001698 Problem In past articles I’ve got my F5 BIG IP appliance up and running, and I’ve built some web servers to test load balancing. Now to actually connect things together and start testing things. Below is my lab setup, I will be deploying simple web load balancing (Static: Round Robin) between three web servers, each serving a simple HTTP web site. Test F5 to Web Server Connectivity For obvious reasons the F5...

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VMware – Datastore Browser shows “Searching Datastore….”
Nov17

VMware – Datastore Browser shows “Searching Datastore….”

KB ID 0000401  Problem I did a VMware VI3 to vSphere (4.1 U1) upgrade today. While bringing all the guest machines across, suddenly I could no longer browse the datastore, I only had one more guest to “Add to the inventory”, and all the mission critical machines were already migrated. I tried rebooting the virtual center, I tried restarting the ESXi host machines, still it sat saying “Searching...

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vSphere – Guest VM is shown as (Orphaned)
Nov17

vSphere – Guest VM is shown as (Orphaned)

KB ID 0000414  Problem I’ve seen this happen a few times now, while looking at your Virtual infrastructure, one or more client machines is greyed out and shown as (Orphaned). Solution If you have many guests VM’s on one host with this problem, you can cure this by removing the parent host and re-adding it to the cluster, then right clicking it and select “Reconfigure for HA”. Or you can do the following, on a...

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Backup Exec – Error “0xe0009585 – Unable to open a disk of the virtual machine”
Nov17

Backup Exec – Error “0xe0009585 – Unable to open a disk of the virtual machine”

KB ID 0000349  Problem Seen while using Backup Exec 2010 R2, while attempting to backup an Exchange 2010 server (on Windows server 2008 R2) in a VMware virtualised environment (using the VMware Backup Exec Agent). Click for Larger Image Errors Read Job Completion Status Completed status: Failed Final error: 0xe0009585 – Unable to open a disk of the virtual machine. Final error category: Resource Errors Errors Backup-...

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