Monthly Archives: August 2013

Recover your virtual domain controller inside a CSV if Hyper-V failover cluster fails

Workaround to take back DC VM from CSV.

1. At this moment, your cluster is offline and failed due to its inability to connect to a Domain Controller.

2. Go to Cluster Shared Volume, select the Cluster volume which contained the VHD.

3.Offline the resources, right click and select Remove from Cluster Shared Volumes.

4. Once remove, go to Storage and you will see the disk located in Available Storage. Assign a Drive Letter and copy the VHD out.

This is the simple trick to recover the DC VM which is inside the CSV. Hopefully, you can now create the a new VM and point towards the copied VHD then start the Domain Controller. Once the DC is up, then you will be able to start the Hyper-V Failover Cluster.

Just to remind again, you should have at least 1 DC not in CSV or run in the physical server.

Source: http://www.ms4u.info/2011/08/recover-domain-controller-virtual.html

VMware Answers the Smartphone

While the concept of desktop virtualization may not be all that new, applying virtualization to smartphones is still a twinkling in the eye for most enterprise IT organizations.

Looking to speed that process along, VMware recently released version 1.5 of VMware Horizon Workspace, which adds support for a range of VMware-ready smartphones based on the Google Android operating system.

The goal is to give IT organizations a single platform through which they can manage virtualization on everything from desktop PCs to smartphones.

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As an extension of the VMware Horizon Suite, the latest mobile computing platform from VMware is designed to allow IT organizations to cleanly delineate between corporate applications running on a smartphone and the personal applications deployed by the end user. Rather than allowing those lines to blur, Krishnamurti says applying virtualization on the smartphone solves a range of security and compliance issues that continue to bedevil IT organization struggling with the whole Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) phenomenon as end users demand more access to corporate applications.

The Golden Rules to Home Backup

Follow these three golden rules for the simplest way any home user to ensure their data is backed up and safe.

3 copies of anything you care about – Two isn’t enough if it’s important.
2 different formats – Example: Hard Drive+DVDs or Hard Drive+Memory Stick or CD+Cloud, or more
1 off-site backup – If the house burns down, how will you get your memories back?

Remember that using just one kind of backup (eg, an external hard drive or SD card backup) is really not a backup. You need both off-site backup storage (eg, cloud backup), plus backups to different media types and multiple copies of everything you want to protect.