Category Archives: Windows

Evaluating VMware Alternatives: Why We Chose Hyper-V for GPU Workloads – Part1.

Posted on September 20, 2026 by Ganadmin

As part of our virtualization strategy, we evaluated alternatives to VMware with the goal of selecting platforms based on workload requirements rather than finding a single replacement for every use case. For the majority of our workloads, we selected Oracle … Continue reading →

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Analyzing a Perf-Counter-Log

Posted on February 28, 2026 by Ganadmin

Steps to collect PERFMON: run the following command:Logman.exe create counter Perf-Counter-Log3 -o “C:\perflogs\Perftest3.blg” -f bincirc -v mmddhhmm -max 250 -c “\LogicalDisk()*” “\Memory*” “\Network Interface()*” “\Paging File()*” “\PhysicalDisk()*” “\Processor()*” “\Process()*” “\Redirector*” “\Server*” “\System*” “\Thread*” -si 00:00:03Then go to Performance MonitorData Collector … Continue reading →

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Adding an RDM LUN to the second node in the MSCS cluster fails with the error: Incompatible device backing specified for the device

Posted on April 30, 2023 by Ganadmin

Followed the document https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/6.5/vsphere-esxi-vcenter-server-651-setup-mscs.pdf to configure the windows cluster but it is getting failed with the error Tried a few VMware KB articles to fix the issue https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2054897 but all the options got failed and finally the issue got fixed … Continue reading →

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Amazon FSx for Windows File Server

Posted on March 6, 2020 by srinathvg

  Amazon FSx for Windows File Server provides a fully managed native Microsoft Windows file system. Amazon FSx provides NTFS file systems that can be accessed from up to thousands of compute instances using the SMB protocol (SMB 2.0 to 3.1.1).  … Continue reading →

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Bug in network introspection driver (vnetflt.sys) VMtools 11265 (11.0.1)

Posted on February 13, 2020 by Ganadmin

Recently we have upgraded the VMtools version from 10.305\10.346 to 11265 – 11.0.1 and we noticed few VMs went to hung status and noticed the below alert in windows VMs. vmware.log: 2020-02-07T12:50:58.182Z| vcpu-0| I125: Guest: vsep: AUDIT: VFileSocketMgrCloseSocket : Mux … Continue reading →

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Error while migrating vSphere VMs to Amazon with AWS Server Migration Service

Posted on September 30, 2019 by Ganadmin

By the help of the link , configured the AWS Server Migration Service and at final stage of the sync it got failed with the error ” Instance failed to boot and establish network connectivity” So we stopped all the … Continue reading →

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July MS patch issue and fix

Posted on July 30, 2018 by Ganadmin

We were encountered  few issue after the July month Microsoft patch KB4338814\KB4338815. After applying the patch users have reported about the DHCP issue and SQL fail-over cluster issue.On few servers we were not able to open the DHCP \ MS … Continue reading →

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Trend Deep Security agentless windows 2016 protection

Posted on February 28, 2018 by Ganadmin

Even-though the 9.6 Service pack 1 was supporting the agentless protection which was tested in our lab, it was not officially supported by Trend and from the latest version Deep Security 9.1 Update Release (9.6 ServicePack 1 Patch1 Update 15) … Continue reading →

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Useful links about Meltdown and Spectre

Posted on January 9, 2018 by Ganadmin

Everyone is  working on to fix the Meltdown and Spectre so just thought of sharing few links which will help to handle the issue efficiently . HP Today HP has released update for System ROM and we can find below link to … Continue reading →

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