Troubleshooting on A.J. Elsinga

How to solve your problem in 9 steps

Wed, 16 Aug 2017 00:00:00 +0000

This is an archived article. It was originally published on VMGuru . This article may contain outdated information.

One of the most important things in troubleshooting in general is that you follow a system or workflow. You have to attack the problem methodically and analytical. There’s nothing worse than trying all kinds of things and realize suddenly that it works and not knowing what you did to get it working. It is great that it starts to work again, but you don’t know what it caused it.

Login PI 1.0 now available

Mon, 13 Apr 2015 00:00:00 +0000

This is an archived article. It was originally published on VMGuru . This article may contain outdated information.

I’ts finally here: Login PI 1.0. If you haven’t read our article in December, here’s a short recap on what Login PI is.

Scaling up/out? Or genuine performance troubleshooting?

Thu, 13 Jan 2011 00:00:00 +0000

This is an archived article. It was originally published on VMGuru . This article may contain outdated information.

I was reading another article about cloud computing today. Almost all articles and posts seem to focus on how easy it is to add resources to your environment when you need more power.

Spaces in LDAP

Mon, 18 May 2009 00:00:00 +0000

This is an archived article. It was originally published on VMGuru . This article may contain outdated information.

With one of our deployments of VMware View we had problems with the linked clones. Adding the computer accounts to Active Directory failed everytime. Even after recreating the pool it failed. Computer accounts weren’t created in Active Directory.

VMware View log viewing

Fri, 01 May 2009 00:00:00 +0000

This is an archived article. It was originally published on VMGuru . This article may contain outdated information.

With the addition of VMware View your environment gains complexity. Before adding components like VMware View or Lab Manager you only have one point of logging in your virtual enviroment, vCenter Server. Now you have to look into the textfiles itself if you want to do some real troubleshooting.

VC Upgrade went haywire

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0000

This is an archived article. It was originally published on VMGuru . This article may contain outdated information.

Yesterday was a fun day. What looked like a simple, clean upgrade became something more interesting. After making a before snapshot I started the VirtualCenter installation wizard. Then the fun started. Nothing happened.