Out of clutter, find simplicity
Last week I upgraded a vCenter 4.0 installation to 4.1u1. The vCenter was installed on a 32-bit VM so I needed to migrate the installation to a new 64-bit host. I tried to do the migration according to the vSphere 4.1 upgrade pre-installation requirements and considerations guide. But sadly I got an error during the [...]
I found a great way to backup the vCenter SQL database running on SQL Express. The downside of running vCenter on SQL Express is the lack of the SQL agent. So running a scheduled backup of the SQL database is a bit tricky. ExpressMaint is a small application set of scripts/stored procedures that enables you [...]
Great post about shrinking SQL server 2005 log files. Shrinking the File Once you have identified your problem and have been able to truncate your log file, you may need to shrink the file back to a manageable size. You should avoid shrinking your files on a consistent basis as it can lead to fragmentation [...]