Aug 27, 2015 Posted by newlife007

How To Move Windows 2008 R2 or 2012 R2 MSDTC Witness Disk to new SAN drive

This post explains how to move the MSDTC SAN drive to another drive on a Windows 2008 / 2012 cluster. For the most part you are deleting the existing cluster defined service and recreating pointing to the new drive. Before moving to the new storage drive assigned to MSDTC you will need to gather the following information. MSDTC ip address New and old SAN drive’s Current cluster service definition You also... read more

Aug 25, 2015 Posted by newlife007

How To Perform Windows P2V using Disk2Vhd for VirtualBox

As with a previous article on creating a P2v for use by VirtualBox using VMware’s vCenter Converter for Windows, we will continue and describe how to complete the task using  Microsoft’s Disk2Vhd (SysInternal Suite). What is Disk2Vhd? Disk2vhd is a utility that creates VHD (Virtual Hard Disk – Microsoft’s Virtual Machine disk format) versions of physical disks for use in Microsoft... read more

Aug 24, 2015 Posted by newlife007

How to fix Windows 7 Interactive logon process initialization has failed error

Recently ran into an issue where a Windows 7 system for no reason gave a “Interactive logon process initialization has failed” error for no reason. No updates had been applied and nothing out of the ordinary.This is a quick post on how I was able to resolve the issue. Tried several of the usual steps. Reboot the system Tried to select Safe Mode, does not work same error Last Known Good... read more

Aug 23, 2015 Posted by newlife007

How To Create a Bootable Disk to Update BIOS and Firmware Using Dell Repository Manager

Recently came upon an issue during upgrading ESXi that required updated firmware and bios on Dell hardware. This posed a problem as ESXi was set to boot fron USB and there was no operating system installed locally. This only left a few options to how to update the systems. Use Dell Systems Management Tools and Documentation disk and SUU (Systems Update Utility) and select the update firmware option. Use... read more

Aug 21, 2015 Posted by newlife007

How To Use Device-Alias on a Cisco MDS

As I continue on my journey of learning how to manage storage I have learned about using device aliases instead of pwwn’s directly. The benefit to using device-alias in this manner makes it easy when a device has new pwwn’s assigned to it (due to hardware replacement or in the case of a blade a move to a new chassis) that you can update the device-alias and not have to make any other storage... read more