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Your box is still initialising Sky+ HD

By David Hill on June 9, 2015 in Randomness

So my Sky+ HD Box has stopped working. It was working fine, recording a program, then it just simply turned off and the TV receives no signal anymore. I tried all the obvious techniques. Unplugged the box, disconnected all the cables, reconnected all the cables, plugged the box back in, nothing. Same thing. The power light and WIFI light come on as expected, but nothing appears on the TV. After googling the issue for a while, I discovered that it was the fact that my planner was full. It was in the middle of a recording, and couldn’t delete anything, so simply hit 100% disk space and crashed. Ok, so how do I get the box on to delete a program? First thing I tried is to do a software update. This normally fixes 90% of the problems on a sky box and is really easy to do. The steps […]

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Advanced Architecture Design for Cloud-Based Disaster Recovery

By David Hill on June 9, 2015 in Cloud Computing

Working over in vCloud Air Tech Marketing, I have been focusing a lot on Cloud-Based Disaster Recovery. Recently I wrote a solution brief (Colotti started it, however I finished it) covering the advanced architecture required to implement a full Cloud-Based Disaster Recovery solution. This solution brief walks people through considerations around Authentication and DNS, leveraging data seeding for replication, and how to failback to your on-premises environment. Here is a sneak preview of some of the content from the Advanced Architecture Design for Cloud-Based Disaster Recovery Solution Brief: Conclusions Assuring continuity of applications and data through enterprise-grade Disaster Recovery practices is a prerequisite for any full-scale enterprise hybrid architecture using VMware vCloud Air or any cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service solution. The examples reviewed here extend the vCloud Air use cases to include Disaster Recovery in the cloud, with Clear, simplified setup and migration processes Multiple options to support the DR environment with […]

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Error #1009 vSphere Web Client

By David Hill on June 5, 2015 in ESXi, General

Recently I have been having some issues with plugins while working in my lab. I recently wrote this article “Error 1063 vSphere Web Client” which documents how to disable selected plugins. This fixed worked for a little while, but recently I have started receving a similar error but with the Error #1009 vSphere Web Client. I tried the fix in my previous article again, however when I tried to go into the Client Plug-Ins area of the vSphere Web Client, I received the #1009 error everytime. The first thing I tried was to (obviously) Google the error, but I couldn’t find any resolution. A few people have experienced this error on the communities forum but no one had a fix for it. I phoned a friend in GSS, and they told me about an issue with cached objects that are stored in a SerenityDB folder. They aparantly have bad references […]

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Nested ESXi on vCloud Air – Links

By David Hill on May 28, 2015 in Cloud Computing, ESXi, vCloud Air

So for quite some time now, lots of people keep asking me about running Nested ESXi on vCloud Air and is it possible. The answer to that question is YES, you can run Nested ESXi on vCloud Air today. George Kobar, who is a colleague of mine in Technical Marketing wrote a great blog article on how to run Nested ESXi on vCloud Air. This got me thinking about how many other people have been doing this? Is it as popular as I thought? Are people just asking the question, or are they actually doing it? I started doing some searches on the internet for blog articles from the community, and I found quite a few on this topic, which is why I am writing this article. I thought it would be good to list all the articles in one place to make it easy for people to find. I […]

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VMware vCloud Director 8.0 Beta

By David Hill on May 21, 2015 in Cloud Computing, vCloud Air

VMware has just opened up an open beta for VMware vCloud Director 8.0 version. This is a major new release of vCloud Director and has lots of integration with new and important products to enable cloud providers deliver a true seamless cloud experience. I am now hearing people say, why would I want to test vCloud Director? Well, firstly if you are a service provider and are part of the vCloud Air Network, this will eventually become the latest version that you will be deploying. Secondly, it comes packed with cool features and integration with other VMware products. Just look at the list: vSphere 6.0 and NSX 6.1 compatibility Virtual Data Center (VDC) templates for self service enablement of OnDemand infrastructure vApp enhancements for better usability VM limits and throttling to drive better operation efficiency and minimize noisy neighbor issues in multi-tenant environments OAuth suport in authentication providers Better provisioning […]

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