Recent content by jenuster

Is anyone here attending? if so, I would love to connect.

Yeah, the migrate feature using local storage works great. Just turn off the VM and click on the migrate button. Over a 1 gbps link, it should take about 2.5-3 hrs to move a 400 GB VM to another host. I tried using the Veeam quick migration feature but that actually takes a lot longer.

In the end, I left domain services running (VSS does not work if this service is turned off) and converted the box. I made sure there were no incoming connections and 500 GB server took about 2 hours and 45 minutes to convert. After I got it to a VM, i booted in DSRM mode and took care of the...

So when I tried the P2V, converter tells me vss snapshot failed. Apparently you can't do VSS snapshot in DSRM mode. Any ideas? This is SBS 2011 box.

Thanks. So after the conversion is complete, do I edit the VM add a NIC, and then boot into AD Restore mode, and finally delete the converted NICS and setup the new NIC?

VMWare. Did you do a hot or cold migration? I will be using VMware Converter.

Has anyone had experience P2V'ing SBS 2008/2011 servers? If so, I would love to hear any gotchas/overall experience. I'm a little worried in P2V'ing the box as its a DC as well.

We were seeing latency on most of our hosts that went beyond 100 ms and peaked at almost a second. Called up VMWare and they stated that local disk controller was showing high latency (although there's no VM's on there). We are using a VNX 5300 via ISCSI for storage connectivity. Now my...

Thanks, how sure are you that when I clone the VM to the new ESXi host, that it will be formatted with the 1MB block allowing my virtual hard disk to reach up to 2 GB?

Sorry I wasn't clear enough. The reason why I'm moving the Exchange server is that the disk on the VM is almost full. Unfortunately I can't expand it anymore (it's at 250 GB now) or start moving mailboxes because there is barely any storage left on the server. The goal is to get the...

I have a Exchange VM in particualr that lives on a local datastore and by default was formatted so that the most space I can allocate to each hard disk is 256 GB (it's running ESXi 4) I'm planning to deploy a new host and install ESXi 5 which has lots of storage and use Veeam to replicate the...

I'm looking to replace my stock hard drive on my Macbook Pro (Spring 2011) with an SSD. Does anyone have recommendations or can tell me which SSD they use for their macbook pro?

Two host cluster running ESXi 5 using Synology for storage. Exchange 2007 & 2010 running in coexistence mode. View 5 Xen App 6.5 Two DC's SQL Server (2012) Web Server (IIS) SRM

Good point, let me put that in context. We deal mostly with SMB's in the NYC area and when the SAN is needed for a small business in, we used to recommend the Dell Equallogics which are pretty expensive. In the last few month's we've been recommending the VNXe which compared to the Equallogics...

Depends on the business but I would go with an enterprise solution as opposed to any Synology/QNAP devices (Don't get me wrong they work great). Check out the VNXe, it's easy to setup & affordable.