Jaison Bailley's Posts
Virtual Machine Disks consolidation is needed
I arrived at work today and noticed 2 VM’s had a warning indicating “Virtual Machine Disk Consolidation is needed”. If you following the usual steps and right click the VM in the vSphere Client and click “Snapshot” and then “Consolidate”, the VM will try to consolidate and the I received an error “Unable to access file since it is locked”. I ... »
vBrisket Sponsors for VMworld Party
DataGravity pioneered the concept of data-aware storage, revolutionizing how modern enterprises simply extract value and insights from their growing data stores to enhance data security, optimize storage and data management, and increase end user productivity. DataGravity is proud to have been involved with vBrisket since its inception, and is looking forward to taking vBrisket on the road ... »
vBrisket Certification Discussion with Tim Antonowicz (VCDX) and BBQ Event
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VMware View Composer Provisioning timeout error
In the process of installing VMware Horizon View 5.3 in my home lab environment, I ran into an error when creating a Linked Clone Pool using VMware Composer. One of my reasons for installing Horizon View was to test the performance of using PernixData FVP in a VDI scenario (boot storms initially) and the other was to gain access into my home lab using a Security Server. The desktops would be creat... »
PernixData FVP Management Server Service not running
I had successfully installed and tested PernixData’s FVP 2.5 in my home lab on a 3 host VMware vSphere 5.5 cluster. With my initial configuration I connected the PernixData Management Server to an external SQL server running on my VMware View Composer VM. I decided that I wanted to start over and install the Management Server and SQL Server Express 2012 on the same Windows 2008 R2 Server (r... »
vBrisket Career Development and BBQ Recap
I would like to thank our career development panelist for making the time to come out and spend the time educating the community. Thank you to Rick Vanover, Mike Colson, Matt Brender, Justin Lauer, Tom Breakiron and Toby Meyer for participating. I would also like to thank our awesome sponsors: Arista paid for the event location and all of the food and drinks, Tintri and Pure Storage each purchase... »
vBrisket Career Development Panel on May 1
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vBrisket Disaster Recovery Presentation/Discussion
We had a nice turn out last night for the vBrisket Disaster Recovery Presentation/Discussion. The interaction of everyone in attendance was like nothing I have ever been a part of, it was awesome. Here is the link to the vBrisket DR Discussion and keep an eye out for the invitation to the May 1st vBrisket, it’s a a special one. »
Veeam “It Just Works!”, but let’s make it work better
I know everyone out there has heard Veeam’s tag line “It Just Works!” (they even patented the phrase), how can anyone disagree with that statement. Install Veeam Backup and Replication using all of the defaults, including Microsoft SQL Server Express and you can backup your virtual environment pretty easily. But that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t look at the overall des... »