ESXi upgrade operation failed – Error: permission denied on Dell server
Not long ago I came across this problem in groped to update a esxi update1 5.5 from version to version update3 on a Dell R630 server arrived with esxi preinstalled on a raid1 two SD cards. The attempt to update is made by inserting the CD at the server boot time (in reality […]
Equallogic warning: Free space is below threshold of 15 percent for pool PoolName. Default Snapshot Schedule will run with max-keep set to 1
Hello everyone, this warning has already appeared to me in a couple of customers after I upgraded the Dell Equallogic firmware to version 8 or later. It occurs in cases in which you don't use the snapshots function and decide to not allocate usefull space for the snapshots. If you are in this case study the equallogic […]
Massively configure Dell iDrac snmp and smtp parameters
In this post we will create a small powershell script to change on a broad scale the snmp configuration of Idrac present on Dell servers, returns very convenient if you have a battery of tens / hundreds of Idrac to set up as it avoids you to enter every single web interface and losing five minutes for each of Idrac […]
How to reset Dell iDRAC
Sometimes it happens that the servers iDRACs have some problems, they do not respond or respond “in a bad way”, perhaps they are pingable but the web interface is not responding correctly or perhaps entirely inaccessible. The first thing to do in cases like this is to reset the iDRAC, We can distinguish two cases: I can turn off the server because […]
Configure Dell servers with vsphere 5.5/6.0 for Compellent SC2020 SAS connectivity
Last week I managed a new vmware infrastructure composed by 2 Dell FC630 servers, inside a FX2 chassis , and a Compellenet SC2020 with 12 GB SAS connectivity as storage . While verifing the status of the just set up infrastructure, and still not fully configured, I noticed right away that something was not working properly […]
Exchange mail enabled public folders don’t receive emails after 2003 to 2010 migration
It happened to me a couple of times, after the migration of public folders from an Exchange 2003 server to an Exchange Server 2010 mail enabled public folders would stop receiving emails following the complete disposal of the 2003 server (soon after its uninstallation). All email destined for public folder remained […]
SBS 2003 to exchange 2010 mailbox move – MapiExceptionNetworkError: Unable to make connection to the server
Last week I followed a migration from an old SBS 2003 to a more recent exchange 2010. After having configured some’ stuff on the new mail server I wanted to do some tests to see if the mail routing was working correctly (sometimes it happens that the routing group between 2003 and 2010 […]
Exchange 2010 EMC keeps connecting to a no more existing domain controller
If you happen not to be able to manage your exchange infrastructure and receive this error in the Exchange Management Console: “An Active Directory error 0x51 occured when trying to check the suitability of server ‘OLD_DC_NAME’. Error: ‘Active Directory response: The LDAP server is unavailable.’” every time you try to read information regarding […]