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OpenManage Enterprise Tech Release is a new hardware management and monitoring console that provides a comprehensive view of the Dell EMC servers, chassis, network switches, and other third-party devices on the enterprise network. It is designed for the next generation of IT Professionals with a focus on simplicity, automation, and unification of data center management. […]
This article provides procedures to import a wildcard certificate to VMware vCloud Director. Each vCloud Director server requires two SSL certificates, one for the HTTP service and one for the console proxy service, in a Java keystore file. You can use certificates signed by a trusted certification authority, or self-signed certificates. Signed certificates provide the […]
Integrating with vCenter Server for backups and restores Following our previous post “Get started with Acronis Cloud” Backup” we are now ready to backup VMs from our source site and restore them on different location running vSphere infrastructure. Privileges for VM Backup and Recovery on vCenter Server These are the privileges a vCenter Server user […]
Recently BakingClouds received an invitation to trial Acronis Cloud Backup so here we go on testing what Acronis Cloud is offering for service providers and customers. Acronis offers backups and restore (BaaS) with a self-service portal where you login, download the agent for your server or application to backup, register the agent with your Acronis […]
This post outlines the process of troubleshooting issues when Update Manager Download Services is unable to download patches. Symptoms VMware Update Manager Download Services is unable to download patches When trying to initiate a download using vmware-umds -d command you see errors similar to: ‘httpDownload’ 4440 ERROR] [httpDownload, 732] Error 12175 from WinHttpSendRequest for url […]
Acronis Backup enables you to back up the Mailbox server role of Microsoft Exchange Server. Mailbox servers host mailboxes and public folders Supported operating systems Agent for Exchange can be installed in the following operating systems: Windows Server 2003/2003 R2 – Standard and Enterprise editions (x86, x64) Windows Small Business Server 2003/2003 R2 Windows Server […]
After multiple changes, upgrades and re-installs of my LAB severs and cloud POC some of my templates hosted externally were gone so decided to invest some time to create a new template using latest Centos 7 minimal version. During the installation phase trying to use security profiles to put in place some useful configurations I […]
After deploying VMware vCloud Usage Meter 3.6.1 “collection return error” events notifications were received every hour for vCenter Appliance 6.0 while vCenter Appliance 6.5 completes successfully. vCenter Appliance 6.0 collection was completing successfully with vCloud Usage Meter 3.5 but upgrade of Usage meter is needed to support latest VMware products version. 2018-05-07 14:05:27,324 ERROR [Collector […]
Lookahead Reader Threads Causing Slow Synthetic Full Backups and Restores Due To Excessive Library Disk Reads Operations Commvault has detected a condition in v11 Service Pack 10 and v11 Service Pack 11 where the lookahead reader threads become out of sync with the main disk reader thread, potentially resulting in slow Synthetic Full backup performance […]
VMware Update Manager provides centralised patch and version management for ESXi hosts, virtual machines, and virtual appliances. Update Manager can be used to upgrade and patch ESXi hosts, install and update third-party software on hosts, upgrade virtual machine hardware, VMware Tools, and virtual appliances. This guide will cover the installation of VMware Update Manager 6.5 […]