Advanced Tutorials Blog Debian Linux
18. October 2022

How to Install and Configure Zabbix Agents on Remote Linux

Continuing the Zabbix series, this tutorial will guide you on how you can install and configure Zabbix agents on Linux (Debian-based systems and RHEL-based distros) in order to actively monitor local resources on remote systems. The main job of Zabbix agents consists in gathering local information from the targets where they run and sending the data to a central Zabbix server to be further processed and analyzed. If you do […]

Advanced Tutorials Blog Debian Linux
14. October 2022

How to Install Zabbix Monitoring Tool on Debian 11/10

Zabbix is a free, open-source, popular, and feature-rich IT infrastructure monitoring software developed using PHP language. It is used to monitor networks, servers, applications, services as well as cloud resources. It also supports the monitoring of storage devices, databases, virtual machines, telephony, IT security resources, and much more. This tutorial shows how to install and configure the latest release of Zabbix open-source monitoring tool on Debian 11 and Debian 10 with MySQL database to […]

Blog Veeam
7. October 2022

Veeam Backup failure – SOAP issue with vSphere

When you get the error message “SOAP connection is not available” pointing out to the vCenter. You will start to look at the Veeam logs located in C:\ProgramData\Veeam and you will find quickly, that the logs are pointing to nowhere. The jobs shows this message: The log shows the same: [29.09.2022 03:46:03] <29> Error Soap fault. Temporary failure in name resolutionDetail: ‘getaddrinfo failed in tcp_connect()’, […]

Home Lab Stage VI
1. October 2022

irgNET – LAB 6.0 U2

Welcome to Update 2 of Stage 6 of my HomeLab. Since we have completely physically converted my environment to 10GbE in the last update, the ports became scarce at some point. So a second 10GbE switch was needed, especially since I also include future expansions in Datacenter01. Everything is getting more expensive, so it’s better to purchase as a precaution. 🙂 You can see here, […]

News VMware
23. September 2022

EINLADUNG ZUM 34. VMWARE TECHUPDATE

UNSERE EXPERTEN KOMMEN WIEDER ZU IHNEN wir freuen uns, Sie zu unserem 34. VMware TechUpdate einladen zu dürfen. Endlich können wir wieder Präsenz Termine anbieten. 6 Termine vor Ort, sowie 2 Online-Termine stehen zur Auswahl, an denen unsere Experten Ihnen die aktuellsten Neuerungen im Bereich der VMware Produktpalette präsentieren möchten: TERMINE – JEWEILS VON 09:30 BIS 16:30 UHR Mittwoch, 19. Oktober 2022 – Frankfurt The […]

Blog VMware vSphere
12. September 2022

Unable to delete an “inaccessible” datastore (Zombie datastore)

I built a new storage array and migrated the VMs accordingly. But the server gave the following error message: I noticed that the old datastore is still shown as “inaccessible” in vCenter: And even via esxcli I don’t see the datastore anymore: So I first choose the classic way, putting the Server in Maintenance Mode and “Reboot does Good”. But the inaccessible Datastore is still […]

Blog VMware vSAN
5. September 2022

Insufficient configured resources to satisfy the desired vSphere HA failover level on Cluster X in Datacenter X

When configuring my vSAN cluster, I forgot to set “in case of maintenance mode, all VMs should be migrated to the other host automatically” under the HA settings. So I made the following settings under Admission Control: Host failures cluster tolerates is at 1, because I have a VMware vSAN ROBO Cluster. So everything was fine and I found out that the Override calculated failover […]

Blog Stage VI
24. August 2022

irgNET – LAB 6.0 U1

Welcome to Update 1 of the 6th Stage of my HomeLab. Back from my vacation and in full swing. It is official guys – Datacenter 1 and Datacenter 2 are finally connected via 2x 10GbE fibre optic cables through the two Ubiquiti UniFi 8-Port 10 Gigabit SFP+ Aggregation Switches . As you can see in the picture below, there was quite a bit of work to […]