Manually changing VMware registered NIC (using vCentre)
To configure a VMware guest to use the VMXNET driver follow these steps: Power off and ‘remove from inventory’ the virtual machine prior to making continuing. Browse the datastore and locate the...
View ArticleWindows 2008 R2 – Breaking the 2TB Limit with Nimble Storage
I have recently needed to look at one of my Nimble volumes which was growing quite quickly. We have a Windows 2008R2 server which is used as a target/Proxy for our Veeam v7 Backups, it already has 2...
View ArticleUpgrading Nimble CS Array – DON’T PANIC
Over the last weekend I have performed a Live non-disruptive upgrade of my Nimble CS220 array, this was primarily a recommended Firmware update BUT I also needed some of the functionality in order to...
View ArticleWindows 2008 R2 – Enhancing the Nimble iSCSI Connection with MPIO
This article follows on from my experience with using Windows 2008R2, iSCSI connections and a Nimble CS220 array. Click here for that article. Out of the box this set up gave me a single iSCSI...
View ArticleVeeam Backup ‘missing Network Card’
I have recently been experimenting with some of the features of Veeam Sure Backup, my aim was to create a Test/Dev environment for our CRM developers so that patches could be applied on real data, but...
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