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Thursday, October 7, 2010
SCOM 2007 R2 Demo
Whipped a demo lab together of SCOM 2007 R2 with Veeam Management Pack for VMware. Check out the pic below. If I get some time I will post more about the install process.
All told it took about 3 hours start to finish to get this running. I still have a bunch more to do to make it production ready, but for demo purposes this will do.
Here is a quick run down of the procedure:
1. Install SCOM 2007 R2 (for the demo i put everything on the same machine. Vmware VM, 1 vCPU, 4GB mem)
2. Install Veeam Enterprise Management Server (used the same VM as SCOM). Run the executable as Administrator on 2008 R2 or it will yell at you.
3. Install Veeam Enterprise UI (a web GUI for their EMS. should be the same install if you ask me, but...)
4. Run some SCOM agent commands to get all of the Veeam stuff registered. The MP uses the agent to make some registry changes to the server.
5. After all that I threw in an old fashioned reboot just for good measure. Non of this asked for a reboot, but I threw one in here because the agent takes a while to catch up with the registry changes it makes and I am impatient.
6. After the reboot all of the components showed up without issue. Several hours later I checked back in and took the picture above.
All told it took about 3 hours start to finish to get this running. I still have a bunch more to do to make it production ready, but for demo purposes this will do.
Here is a quick run down of the procedure:
1. Install SCOM 2007 R2 (for the demo i put everything on the same machine. Vmware VM, 1 vCPU, 4GB mem)
2. Install Veeam Enterprise Management Server (used the same VM as SCOM). Run the executable as Administrator on 2008 R2 or it will yell at you.
3. Install Veeam Enterprise UI (a web GUI for their EMS. should be the same install if you ask me, but...)
4. Run some SCOM agent commands to get all of the Veeam stuff registered. The MP uses the agent to make some registry changes to the server.
5. After all that I threw in an old fashioned reboot just for good measure. Non of this asked for a reboot, but I threw one in here because the agent takes a while to catch up with the registry changes it makes and I am impatient.
6. After the reboot all of the components showed up without issue. Several hours later I checked back in and took the picture above.
Thursday, April 29, 2010
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Tuesday, April 20, 2010
weekly flow
there was a day called monday
it came and then it went
i know that i participated
although i must lament
i can remember little of it
and this i most resent
tuesday come and gone
and not much more to show
with plenty more tomorrow
amidst the weekly flow
what is the point of this short poem
another i don't know
it came and then it went
i know that i participated
although i must lament
i can remember little of it
and this i most resent
tuesday come and gone
and not much more to show
with plenty more tomorrow
amidst the weekly flow
what is the point of this short poem
another i don't know
Saturday, April 17, 2010
Do Christians Have Feelings?
Think back my Christian friend to the last time you felt close to God. What did it feel like, can you even remember? No doubt there was joy, peace, clarity of mind, commitment to service. Where are those feelings now? Was it just youthful Christian zeal that has now given way to learned stoic faith? How do you feel about God? He has feelings about you.
These brief thoughts flow from the book I am going through with the high school class. The book is titled, Feelings and Faith, and it was written by Brian S. Borgman. I recommend it. http://feelingsandfaith.com/
These brief thoughts flow from the book I am going through with the high school class. The book is titled, Feelings and Faith, and it was written by Brian S. Borgman. I recommend it. http://feelingsandfaith.com/
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Exchange 2010 and VMware HA
Ok, so I have seen multiple different places confirming that Microsoft is not supporting VMware High Availability for Exchange 2010 DAG clusters. What I want to know is why? I don't see how HA is going to affect the cluster or servers functionality.
HA doesn't do anything to the running VM or change it in any way. It simply reboots the machine if the hosting server sustains a hardware failure (Or, if VM monitoring is turned on and the heartbeat fails). So, question is how is this any different than rebooting a physical server that is part of a DAG after it sustains a blue screen or hardware issue? Granted the VM will boot faster than a physical server, but what will go wrong if anything?
DAC will keep the server from mounting its databases if the owning server cannot be contacted. PAM and SAM should also keep the server from trying to become the active owner of the database after it reboots.
Anyone have insight on this? Also, I have seen others stating that VMotion/DRS will also not be supported. Same question there, this does not change the server, however there is the possiblity of a slight network blip during the move. Thoughts or knowledge of why this is their stance?
It is easy enough to turn these features off, but why lose these awesome features if you don't have to. I will most likely leave them on, and use them, unless I see them really break something.
HA doesn't do anything to the running VM or change it in any way. It simply reboots the machine if the hosting server sustains a hardware failure (Or, if VM monitoring is turned on and the heartbeat fails). So, question is how is this any different than rebooting a physical server that is part of a DAG after it sustains a blue screen or hardware issue? Granted the VM will boot faster than a physical server, but what will go wrong if anything?
DAC will keep the server from mounting its databases if the owning server cannot be contacted. PAM and SAM should also keep the server from trying to become the active owner of the database after it reboots.
Anyone have insight on this? Also, I have seen others stating that VMotion/DRS will also not be supported. Same question there, this does not change the server, however there is the possiblity of a slight network blip during the move. Thoughts or knowledge of why this is their stance?
It is easy enough to turn these features off, but why lose these awesome features if you don't have to. I will most likely leave them on, and use them, unless I see them really break something.
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