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vKernel stepping up its game: 2 more free tools added to vOPS Server Explorer

Aleks — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 06:45:00 +0000

vKernel has not been sitting still during the holiday season! Instead they’ve been busy making the free version of vOPS Server Explorer even better. The struggle for absolute dominance in the ever growing market of Virtual Environment Management continues.. What’s the buzz? vOPS Server Explorer 6.3 freeware suite adds two new utilities, Storage Explorer and [...]

Error:The Citrix servers reported that they are too busy to provide access to the selected resource

Aleks — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 14:35:35 +0000

I came across this error in a Mixed 4.0 / 4.5 MPS Farm. The users would try to access the 4.5 server (which was the only 4.5 server in the farm) and they would receive this error message. The complete error was: The Citrix servers reported that they are too busy to provide access to [...]

How to work around ESXi not autostarting VM’s from a NAS or NFS share

Aleks — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 12:28:24 +0000

I’ve been busy rebuilding my home environment. (articles will follow as soon as life permits it). During my initial testing of starting my all-in-one VMWare ESXi environment (which contains a Virtual SAN and VM’s on 1 host), I noticed that the autostarting of VM’s was not working properly. (This is with ESXi v5.0 so I [...]

Tool to encrypt password when mapping network drive

Aleks — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 09:37:35 +0000

When you use scripts to automate installs you might in one point in time need to enter a net use command in order to connect to a network share. If you don’t want to have passwords lingering in text files then come take a look what I found..! I stumbled upon Mapper24 after searching all [...]

xs4all glasvezel:meerdere tv decoders aansluiten op 1 switch

Aleks — Sun, 17 Jun 2012 13:44:33 +0000

Ik heb inmiddels een aantal maanden glasvezel via XS4All en heb daarbij ook maar gelijk gebruik gemaakt van het aanbod om digitale tv via glasvezel te bewonderen. Met de standaard apparatuur kun je slechts 1 decoder aansluiten op de Fritzbox. Ik had weinig trek om 2 switches te gaan gebruiken om 1 extra decoder te [...]

How to flash A IBM ServeRaid BR10i RAID Controller to LSI SAS 1068E firmware (IT)

Aleks — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 12:37:39 +0000

Just a small how to on I how I flashed my IBM BR10i to a LSI SAS 1068E(B3) making it a simple HBA card running in IT mode. IT Firmware = Straight pass through with no RAID options IR Firmware= Pass through as in IT mode, but you also have RAID options. I’m using IT [...]

Test-driving Login VSI Express Part 3

Aleks — Tue, 01 May 2012 10:59:41 +0000

In this last part, we take a look at configuring VSI, running the loadtester and using the analyzer to show the results. First up is placing the license file where it needs to be. Copy the license file in the _VSI_Configuration folder of the VSI Share we created in Part 1. Starting the Management Console [...]

Test-driving Login VSI Express Part 2

Aleks — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 08:38:01 +0000

In Part 2 of Test-driving Login VSI Express we are going to focus on the installation of the VTARGET Machine Preparing the VTARGET Machine Fist step for the VTARGET machine is to add it to the newly created domain of the VLAUNCHER machine We then need to add the RDS (Terminal Server) feature: Ok, [...]

Test-driving Login VSI Express Part 1

Aleks — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 10:49:58 +0000

If you’ve been keeping up with the latest whitepapers in the virtualization world then you must have read about "Login VSI" more than once. So what does this Login VSI program do exactly? In short, Login VSI is a benchmarking tool to measure the performance and scalability in SBC and VDI environments. Best of all, [...]

Virtualistic posts now also available via twitter

Aleks — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 06:30:06 +0000

Not all people use RSS readers so I’m also going to use twitter to push out notifications. If you want to stay up to date just follow me on twitter @virtualistic or use the button on the sidebar.