These days I got a call from Barracuda. They have their annual customer conference in Munich, called “Where Technology Matters”. I got asked if I would like to take over the speech about the Barracuda Message Archiver, as the origin speaker is on sick leave. Shure I would!
It was very pleasant to see my name on the Agenda. Check it out: http://where-technology-matters.com/agenda.aspx
Today I had to move my SCCM SQL-Database to another host due to performance issues. Also, I wanted to achieve some kind of High(er) Availability through this. At the beginning I tought it will be a daunting task, but in the end everything was quick and painless. Here are the steps I´ve done.
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Once read in a newspaper, recently found again on Facebook: Nicht lesen, wenn du nach 84 geboren bist! Kinder von heute werden in Watte gepackt. Wenn du als Kind in oder vor den 90ern lebtest, ist es zurückblickend kaum zu glauben, dass du so lange überleben konntest! Als Kinder saßen wir in Autos ohne Sicherheitsgurte [...]
I´m just one step ahead to finish this. I got all missing parts, they´re assembled, and everything is working fine. Even Software Update. Now, all I have to to is to finish the enclosure. Maybe I will post some pictures these days… Time seems to be a rare thing nowadays.
Today I decided to move my board into a M350 enclosure. It just looks better, and makes me feel, this project will be finished somewhen. I played around with FreeNAS 0.7.1 (499x), but after a short while I decided to tick it off my list. When I rescan my Disks, it always fails with a [...]
Recently I tried to restore a virtual machine to another host. The origin machine should remain on the source host. It seems, this is not possible with vRanger PRO, as it quit´s the operation with the following error: “Cannot continue restore as a virtual machine ‘VM-NAME’ not on host ‘DESTINATION-HOST’ already exists in the root folder for the datacenter”…
This weekend I had to schedule a maintenance window. Our Exchange database needed an offline defrag. MY approach went fine, it shrinked from 63GB to 41GB, which…
After playing around with a fisheye and finding out, it´s not usefull for me, I decided to buy a wide angle lens. I searched amazon, and found the…
Recently I received this error, when I connected to my Virtual Center Server. At first on one ESX-Host, later on on all. I was shure I wouldn´t fix this until I need it. Now I need it urgently andasked troubleshooter #1 – Google. After eliminating any thoughts on serverside issues, I found an entry on Scott Lowe´s Blog. He had exactly the same problem,…