Monthly Archives: December 2011
vSphere 5 : System logging is not configured on host
After upgrading the company vSphere environment to ESX5 hosts with only relatively small USB SSD drives for internal storage I was greeted with the message System logging is not configured on host… when I first logged into the hosts using the … Continue reading
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Adding Single DNS hosts for external zones to a Windows DNS Server
Thanks to netlife for the following lifesaver when I was asked by a client to enable viewing of their own extranet sites via it’s external DNS address while the site was hosted in the same environment their own client PCs were. … Continue reading
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Running an OEM operating system as a virtual machine – “This system is not supported platform”
I recently had to install Windows Small Business Server 2011 for a small client of ours. As with almost every install at the moment, the decision was made to do the install as a VM on ESX 5 as although … Continue reading
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