I allows find it good to wait at least a few weeks before I do any major upgrades. I’ll let other people shake out the bugs. Its a good thing because we are running our vcenter on SQL 2000. Follow the link for the fix before you try the upgrade or if you already tried and failed. Big note from the KB, if you don’t follow the steps in the KB, it will over write your database, you do backup your database before you do any upgrade, right?

I’ve not yet got my hands really dirty on ESX 3.0.x to ESX 3.5 and VirtualCenter 2.0.x to 2.5 upgrades. Although crudely “play” with the process under the Release Candate. Initially, I had a permissions problem with the VirtualCenter upgrade and my SQL 2000 server. There’s been a length forum thread on this which I have been involved with. It’s become clear that if you have a SQL 2000 server additional permissions are required for an upgrade, which were not previously required in previous upgrades from VC 1>2 or the intra-upgrades from say 2.0.0>2.0.1>2.0.2

A KB article from VMware outlines this issue. As far as I know its not an issue for SQL 2005…

Link: ID: 1003346

VirtualCenter 2.5 upgrade issue with SQL 2000
mikelaverick
Tue, 18 Dec 2007 22:09:15 GMT

Popularity: 5% [?]

Related posts

• Twitter Updates for 2007-07-15
• Twitter Updates for 2007-09-16
• Busy week, not many posts
• VMware: Running VirtualCenter in a VM
• VMware ESX 3.5 upgrade path: Where to start

• its server patch and upgrade weekend. #
• Upgrading our anti-spam software,vmware, and ssl/vpn. Monday should be fun #
• Not liking the new installer for windows live writer!!!! #
• BenwayNet: VMworld 2007 Top Support Issues Session: Some great information from vmware, I&#82.. http://tinyurl.com/2ssgpr #
• BenwayNet: Hacking SAM database on offline Windows: I found too much good information on my 6.. http://tinyurl.com/3xopvb #
• BenwayNet: Links for 2007-09-15 [del.icio.us]:
  Terraminds micro search Search Twitter http://tinyurl.com/28yb7y #
• The colts win a close one, now the Lions Vs the Vikings #

Powered by Twitter Tools.

Popularity: 2% [?]

Related posts

• Twitter Updates for 2008-01-19
• Twitter Updates for 2007-12-16
• Twitter Updates for 2007-11-18
• Twitter Updates for 2007-10-20
• Twitter Updates for 2007-12-05

• another long night on our mantanance weekend #
• Trying to move SQL from Vmware 2 to VI3, can’t use vcenter because its database is on that sql server. #
• sitting on a boat in spring lake #

Powered by Twitter Tools.

Popularity: 3% [?]

Related posts

• Twitter Updates for 2007-09-16
• Twitter Updates for 2008-01-19
• Twitter Updates for 2007-12-05
• Twitter Updates for 2007-11-18
• Twitter Updates for 2007-09-28

I’m finally leaving work today. I got called at 7:30 because users couldn’t connect to our ERP system. I remoted in and the server looked fine. So I called the database guy. He made a change and the users could connect.
At about 1PM I get a call from the database guy that he was in looking at the server and saw I bunch of “failure to write” errors. (I didn’t see anyting when I looked in the morning) At this time I’m shopping about 30 minutes away. I ask if production is still running. Not sure, I get called back at 2:30 (still shopping) production is running and database is down.

So at 3 I come in and take a look, amber lights on the mirrored set that is the c: drive….not good. I reboot the server and the lights turn green, hooray. I still call dell and ask them to ship the parts.

Well the parts finally arived and where installed. All the hardware seems to be up, I emailed the dba and I’m going home.

later,jb

Popularity: 1% [?]

Related posts

• Lost the backplane
• Recipient Policies and pure Exchange 2000/2003 sites
• Email Downtime More Stressful Than Divorce
• Busy week, not many posts
• Windows Admin Script: Defrag Drives Based on Threshold

Overview

The Standard User Analyzer
helps developers and IT professionals diagnose issues that would prevent a
program from running properly without administrator privileges. On Windows
Vista, even administrators run most programs with standard user privileges by
default, so it is important to ensure that your application does not have
administrator access as a dependency.

Using the Standard User Analyzer to
test your application can identify the following administrator dependencies and
return the results in a graphical interface:

* File access
* Registry
access
* INI files
* Token issues
* Security privileges
* Name
space issues
* Other issues

This tool also complements the
Application Compatibility Toolkit (ACT) 5.0. ACT 5.0 will include a User Account
Control agent that you can deploy to user desktops to identify applications that
require administer privileges. The Standard User Analyzer is designed to be run
on the developer or tester’s workstation to test and troubleshoot a specific
application. Issues identified with the Standard User Analyzer can also be
entered into you ACT 5.0 database so you can track the application compatibility
across your environment.

Continue to this article at Bink.nu

[Via Bink.nu]

Popularity: 2% [?]

Related posts

• Windows Admin Script: Defrag Drives Based on Threshold
• Movable Type 3.16 released
• Four quick links
• What a week
• Top 10 Security Settings to make directly after Installing Active Directory

Let’s see Monday started by having the drive our exchange logs on fill up. Yeah….who would have thought we could have 3GB of changes to the database over a weekend…..exeutil is your friend…
The rest of the week, we’ve had an onsite vmware workshop. We installed 3 Dell blades with ESX onto our SAN and we now have VCenter and Vmotion. This stuff ROCKS!!! VCenter is SO MUCH better than the MUI you get when you only have ESX. The workshop runs one more day. Only a few more things to clear up and then it’s time to move about 15 machines to the new virtual server farm.
This Saturday we have family coming for a Christmas party and if the weather is good enough we are heading to Detroit Sunday for the Lions game. You can’t beat free tickets!!!!

later,jb

Popularity: 2% [?]

Related posts

• Potential Problem with ESX 3.0.x and VirtualCenter 2.5
• MS PowerToys Blog
• 16,000 Exchange Mailboxes, 1 Server - VMware VROOM!
• VMTSPatchManager: Free "Windows Update" For ESX Servers
• SBS Stuff

Another Exchange posting. Here only because postnuke doesn’t like all the html in the post.
later,jb

I’m playing around, trying to tweak Exchange 2003 to get the best possible performance in my Virtual machine demo environment so that my demos look good, and I’ve been reading the Optimising Storage document on TechNet.   There’s a table in this document which talks about the stored and their impact on disk I/O which I thought was worth reproducing here.  I tend to get asked for this quite a lot so here it is…

[Read more →]

Popularity: 1% [?]

Tags: AD, blog, database, exchange, guides, IE, IM, IT, mac, microsoft, storage, updates

Related posts

• SBS Stuff
• Recipient Policies and pure Exchange 2000/2003 sites
• MS PowerToys Blog
• MS Performance Monitor Wizard
• More Exchange 2003 Tools

Sauce Reader v1.3 (BETA) released

Version 1.3 of Sauce Reader is a huge leap from 1.2.1. We’ve fixed more than 100 bugs and added the following major features:

• Sauce Reader is now an integrated weblogging environment with posting support.


• User interface further cleaned, streamlined and improved.
  
• Auto archiving.
  
• Search folders.
  
• Flagging of items.
  
• Limited keyboard shortcut improvements.

Upgrade notes:

• Users of v1.2.1 will be automatically updated to the new version. Note that this process will clean up your data and may repair your search database.


• Unfortunately, users of versions 1.2 or earlier will need to download and install v1.3 manually. This is due to problems with the auto-updater code in those older versions.

At Synop we thrive on user feedback. Please send us your feedback on Sauce Reader. We love to hear your stories, comments, gripes and praise. Your suggestions have a direct impact on future versions of the product so please help us build the best product possible!

PS: This was posted using the new integrated weblogging environment in Sauce Reader v1.3!

Popularity: 1% [?]

Related posts

• REVIEW: Google Talk
• Movable Type 3.16 released
• We caught him!
• Skype v1.3.0.65
• School Bus Driver Shot - RandyRants

The first session was a hands-on of the web interface V 5.2 for the NAS. It looks quite different an the version we are running on our NS600, but it doesn’t add much functionality. Just moved around the commands and added some wizards.

The second session was for document mangement. Something I think we can use at work. Between our office documents and CAD files, I know we are looking at differnet solutions. Documentum gave a good presentation, but they don’t work with progress databases.

After lunch I set though a legato prestation about disk 2 disk 2 tape backups. We use Veritas right now for our backups. I don’t see us moving to legato, but it gave me lots of good information. We can get a tray of ATA drives for the NS600 and backup all the servers to them and then we can backup from the ATA drives to tape. We are already going over our backup window some days. Plus I want to look at something like Double-take from NSI. It will be byte level replication. So we can replicate our remote locations back to GH to the ATA drives and them backup from the ATA drives. Then I can pull all the remote tape devices out of the remote locations.

The last session of the day was about ISCI. Very interesting. I don’t think we’d use it right off the bat, but I want to make sure any fiber switch we put in can be used as a gateway between a fiber and ISCI network.

more to come……

jb

Popularity: 1% [?]

Related posts

• Night of upgrades
• New SBS documents from MS
• Microsoft gets the groove and lotus notes inventor
• Words that a network admin would like to see banned
• What a week.