29 novembre 2011

Si vous rencontrez cette erreur ExchangeStoreDB (event 123) avec le détail suivant : At <timestamp> the Microsoft Exchange Information Store Database <identity> copy on this server experienced a corrupted search catalog. Consult the event log on the server for other « ExchangeStoreDb » and « MSExchange Search Indexer » events for more specific information about the failure. Reseeding the catalog is recommended via the ‘Update-MailboxDatabaseCopy’ task. Faite un reseed de l’index via la commande... [Lire la suite]

* Be warned, this is totally unsupported. Only for educational purposes should this be used ** Today I was asked the question on how to create a .vib file. In our documentation it is mentioned that you can create a .vib file to add firewall rules to your ESXi host. As the .vib tool is not available yet to the general public I decided to dig in to it. I want to stress that I tested this in my own lab, it is not supported at all, but might give a nice insight in how these .vibs are constructed. Before you read how I created my own .vib... [Lire la suite]

Voici un premier article d'une série intéressante....  Introduction There are lots of server tasks in Windows Server 2008 that can be done much faster with Windows PowerShell than with a GUI. What you’ll find in this article series are ten common server tasks all done on PowerShell. In this two part mini-series you’ll learn how to: Change the local administrator password with PowerShell Restart or shutdown a server with PowerShell Restart a service with PowerShell Terminate a process with PowerShell Create a disk... [Lire la suite]

If you’re an Exchange admin happy about how Exchange ActiveSync just hums along with mobile devices supporting the EAS protocol, and the multitude of devices that can now access Exchange without any admin intervention (OTA device activation and all that…), but also unhappy about the multitude of devices that can now access Exchange without any admin intervention, there’s news for you. Yes, you can enable or disable EAS per-device. Yes, you also prevent unprovisionable devices (you know the ones… )... [Lire la suite]

Bonsoir, Juste une petite note pour annoncer que j'ai passé cet après midi la certification VCP 5 avec succès! Pas facile encore cette certification, mais à coeur vaillant... J'espère que j'aurai de nouveau droit à une licence VMware Workstation ;)

VMware introduced support for iSCSI back in the ESX 3.x days. However, ESX could only boot from an iSCSI LUN if a hardware iSCSI adapter was used. Hosts could not boot via VMware's iSCSI driver using a NIC with special iSCSI capabilities. It quickly became clear that there was a need for booting via Software iSCSI. VMware's partners are developing blade chassis containing blade servers, storage and network interconnects in a single rack. The blades are typically disk-less, and in many cases have iSCSI storage. The... [Lire la suite]

DELL recently released their new Multipath Extension Module (MEM) for the EqualLogic PS Series of storage array. This updated MEM now supports vSphere 5.0.I guess I should try to explain what a MEM is before going any further. VMware implements a Pluggable Storage Architecture (PSA) model in the VMkernel. This means that storage array vendors can write their own multipathing modules to plugin to the VMkernel I/O path. These plugins can co-exist alongside VMware's own default set of modules. There are different modules for different... [Lire la suite]