The ramblings of a computer geek
IPv6 is autoconfiguring, that’s great for worksations and mobile devices, but for servers you want some control. Yes you can hard code a static IPv6 address, but it will also show an autoconfiguration address too. You can disable the RA’s from the router, but in some cases you might not want to do this. So … Read more
You get this error when opening a course, in this case we were using course 33. When entering the course, you get this error message: “Cannot find data record in database table course_module” http://moodle.domain/course/view.php?id=33 SOLUTION: Open MySQL Workbench on the server and then run this query: Then you should see the course record in the … Read more
Okay so we’ve had VMware since version 3.5, and have upgraded through 4, 4.1 and then a big leap to 5.5 just recently. We started getting some really big issues with performance on some of the VMs, but it was not what I first expected! PROBLEM We had a web and SQL application server (Virtual … Read more
Upon booting the Dell PowerEdge R720 server with two Dell 6Gbps SAS HBAs that are installed and connected to a two drive Dell PowerVault TL4000 I got this error message Turns out this is a normal error. Page 25 of ftp://ftp.dell.com/Manuals/all-products/esuprt_ser_stor_net/esuprt_dell_adapters/dell-sas-hba-6gbps_User’s%20Guide_en-us.pdf Basically because it is a tape HBA, the error is saying it cant be … Read more
Upon booting the Dell PowerEdge R720 server with two Dell 6Gbps SAS HBAs that are installed and connected to a two drive Dell PowerVault TL4000 I got this error message Turns out this is a normal error. Page 25 of ftp://ftp.dell.com/Manuals/all-products/esuprt_ser_stor_net/esuprt_dell_adapters/dell-sas-hba-6gbps_User’s%20Guide_en-us.pdf Basically because it is a tape HBA, the error is saying it cant be … Read more
You’ve just installed your new Exchange 2013 server but there is a mailbox already there with a default name e.g. “Mailbox Database 0100716264”, if you are like me you’ll want to get rid of that and create a nice new one in a more sensible location but if you try to delete it you’ll get … Read more
This was an issue when trying to setup a scheduled job in DPM, you can run reports but you can’t set an automatic report. Platform: System Center Data Protection Manager 2012 R2 SQL Server installed locally with DPM 2012 R2 Problem: Error ID 3001:- Reporting Services Server cannot connect to the DPM database when configure … Read more
PROBLEM: In VSphere client, click on “Plug-ins” then click on “Download and Install” alongside the “Vmware vCenter Site Recovery Manager Extensions” when prompted run the installer. If you get the prompt saying that: “VMware Vsphere Client Version 5.5 needs to be installed before Vmware VCenter Site Recovery Manager can be installed.” you need to do … Read more
We purchased some new servers for a new cluster and wanted to move from ESX 4.1 to ESX 5.5. This means going from ESX to ESXi which removes the service console and some settings need to be different. This will show you how to configure the first four NICs of the server into a 4 … Read more
You can do this with: Then in the commands.txt file you just put in the commands that you wish to run within the session. This has been tested on Linux.