I am using Veeam Backup & Replication to backup several servers on a small ESX 4.1 cluster. Until recently all has been well and the backups have succeeded every night, but now it fails when trying to backup one of…
For the last hour or so I have been attempting to take a VM snapshot on my ESXi 5 host at home but keep encountering the f0llowing error: A general system error occurred: unable to save the snapshot file I have…
OpManager is a fantastic product by ManageEngine that offers complete, end-to-end monitoring for routers, switches, servers, printers and so much more. Today I am adding some new ESX hosts that require monitoring. Before adding ESX or ESXi hosts I have…
I have 3 ESX servers in a cluster and, for performance reasons, have decided to add a dual port NIC to each server dedicated to Fault Tolerance and vMotion traffic. The steps below outline how I configured the networking. To…
I have purchased new Intel NICs for my ESX servers so that I can separate the networking for vMotion and Fault Tolerance. However, the drivers are not included in ESX so I need to install them. Once I’d located and…