fredag 24 oktober 2014

I've moved!

I've moved from blogger to Azure and you will find my blog over at www.fjml.se

Over and out!
Joseph

tisdag 21 oktober 2014

Problems with system state backup - DPM

I ran into a common issue regarding DPM and System State backup today at the office.

When running a system state backup the following event is recorded.

DPM cannot create a backup because Windows Server Backup (WSB) on the protected computer encountered an error (WSB Event ID: 517, WSB Error Code: 0x8078001D). (ID 30229 Details: Internal error code: 0x809909FB)
And it's a common error and the reason this occurs is because there is a illegal character, or a reference to a local disk that no longer is present, for a service in the registry.

There are multiple ways to check the imagepath. One is to use the msinfo32 tool, do a regquery or  use powershell.

Since I'm starting to learn powershell I opted for it. Powershell has the nifty feature of having drives and besides regular drives there are a few other. To see the available drives just issue the command Get-PSDrive. 

So I ended up with a command that looked like this.
get-childitem -Recurse -path HKLM:\system\CurrentControlSet\Services | Get-ItemProperty | Where-Object {$_.imagepath} |Select-Object -ExpandProperty imagepath | out-file C:\temp\registry.txt

That made it easy to check if it was a service with a faulty image path that caused this problem.

And in my case it was a HP SUM Service that was the cause of the problem.

/Joseph


 

Dell VRTX

We are opening a new branch office in Poland soon and we were looking for some hardware that would be fitting for a branch office. We are going to support somewhere around 200-250 users. And the servers that we are going to have in this office includes SCCM, AD and a general fileserver to start with. I hope I don't have to mention a backup solution? I hope it goes without saying?

I found a really cool looking solution in Dell VRTX.  It is a chassie with storage, networking and room for four blades.


Here you see what we got, it consists of three Dell M520 blades and 16 600Gb SAS disks.

So far it looks really good. It has a Chassis Management Controller for the blades, network and for the storage. Aswell individual management for the storage, network and the iDrac.

The soundlevel is on a OK level during idle load, I have not tested it during full load yet.

Over and out!
/Joseph

Long time, no see

I haven't written a blog post in ages! And it's due to the fact to me beeing too focused on one thing at a time. A bit like not beeing able to walk and chew bubblegum at the same time.

But the hurdles have been overcomed and beeing a stand-in dad for a 7 year old girl is going really good. I've settled in to my new work and the new home.

With that I will pick up the blogging again and also, with the support of my girlfriend, focus more on my biggest hobby, IT!