by jamesitpro | Jan 21, 2019 | Uncategorized
Extend the disk in your cloud or virtualization platform first. Run a fdisk -l to check the extended disk is available to the OS As you can see from the below output the size of the physical disk is set to 171.78 GB while the Disk /dev/mapper/vg_root-lv_root is still...
by jamesitpro | Nov 13, 2015 | Azure, Cloud, Uncategorized
There are various methods for creating a certificate for use on Azure. I have found that using IIS manager is the easiest. You can install IIS Express on your workstation or access on a server. Open IIS and go to “Server Certificates” 2. Click Create...
by jamesitpro | Sep 29, 2015 | Uncategorized, Veeam
In a DR situation you may need to restore a virtual server using Veeam. 1. Open Veeam Backup & Replication 2. Click restore 3. Select Entire VM including registration then next 4. Click add VM then From Backup 5. Expand the backup job and select the VM you want to...
by jamesitpro | Aug 30, 2015 | Uncategorized, Virtualization, VMware
With an External Platform Services Controller you have the ability to manage multiple vCenter servers from one pane. It sounded like quite a cool option so I thought I would get it installed in the lab! vCenter Architecture Options: Hardware Requirements: Build a...
by jamesitpro | Aug 25, 2015 | Uncategorized, Windows Server
We recently started using IPAM in Windows 2012 to manage our IP address estate. The tool is great, but I do find it is sometimes hard to find what I am looking for. For this reason I’ve done a little post to share how to assign an IP address. To access IPAM from...
