Is Exchange 2010 Supported on VMware?
KB ID 0000333 Problem At time of writing (30/09/10) it seems I cant get a definitive answer! My colleague tried to log a third line support call with Microsoft this week, as soon as they found out that Exchange 2010 was running in a VMware environment, they (literally) hung up on him. Solution Well Microsoft’s own documentation says it IS Reference: Fair enough Exchange 2010 is supported on a “Third party Hypervisor ONLY...
Exchange 2007 CCR to Exchange 2010 HA Migration with (HA Proxy)
KB ID 0000525 Problem Today, I am pleased to say we have the work of guest poster Hesan Javed, who runs through an Exchange 2007 CCR to Exchange 2010 HA Migration. Solution Steps Required. Exchange 2007 HUBCAS Upgrade to SP3 Exchange 2007 Mailbox Upgrade to SP3 Installing Exchange 2010 SP1 HUBCAS after Upgrading Exchange 2007 to SP3 Uninstalling Exchange 2007 from the Passive node in the Cluster Installing Exchange 2010 SP1 Mailbox...
GNS3 Cannot Connect Network Interfaces when running on VMware vSphere
KB ID 0000671 Problem I have plenty of real ASA firewalls to play with, but it’s getting round to re-certification time, so for ease I thought I’d run up a Virtual ASA on my vSphere 5 box just for testing and breaking. However no matter what type of Virtual Network adaptor I used (vmxnet3, e1000, etc) I could not connect to the virtual firewall. Solution 1. Firstly make sure you actually have an IP address in the correct...
Cisco Catalyst – Configure Ports for VMware ESXi NICs using VLANS
KB ID 0001065 Problem If you don’t need different virtual machines to be in different VLANS on your vSphere/ESXi servers then you probably just connect everything together and it all works fine. I was trying to carve off some hosts into their own VLAN today, and setup a new vSwitch. or if you prefer to work in the fat client. Now you can see (above), I’ve presented one physical NIC to this vSwitch (vmnic1). This is...
Securing Network Device Access With Cisco ACS (and Active Directory)
KB ID 0000942 Problem For network identification I have tended to use RADIUS (in a Windows NPS or IAS flavour), in the past. I turned my back on Cisco TACACS+ back in my ‘Studying for CCNA’ days, because back then it was clunky and awful. I have a client that will be installing ACS in the near future, so I thought I would take a look at it again, and was surprised at how much more polished it is. As Cisco plans to roll ACS...