Author: Jackie Chen

ESXi datastore with corrupted partition table


My colleague told me that he always failed to vmotion virtual machines to a particular datastore. The error message does not have much information, it just says the virtual machine files on the destination datastore is not accessible even the vmotion has not started yet.I found some relevant information in the vmkernel log: 2014-03-26T04:36:20.189Z cpu28:6188)NMP: nmp_ThrottleLogForDevice:2318: … Continue reading ESXi datastore with corrupted partition table →

PowerShell: XenApp Server Performance


I wrote a simple PowerShell script to monitor the real time performance (CPU usage, Memory usage and Disk queue length) of the XenApp farm servers. To make it work, you need to: 1) Download and install the XenApp Powershell SDK. 2) Ensure the 'Citrix XenApp Commands Remoting' service is running on the data collector server. … Continue reading PowerShell: XenApp Server Performance →

WinSCP or Putty authenticates against Microsoft ISA/ TMG


Many companies use Microsoft ISA/ TMG as their enterprise proxy solution. This may work for most cases. But in some scenarios, it does not work well. For example, use WinSCP or Putty behind the proxy AND the proxy requires authentication. ISA/ TMG is mircrosoft technology, it uses NTLM based authentication which is not supported by … Continue reading WinSCP or Putty authenticates against Microsoft ISA/ TMG →

Troubleshoot ‘Windows Process Activation Service’ failed to start


I was setting up a IIS test environment for testing the mobile redirection this afternoon. That's a test box which may serve for other purpose as well. For some reason, the WAS service (Windows Process Activation Service) just refused to start with the message 'Error 3: The system cannot find the path specified'. I am … Continue reading Troubleshoot ‘Windows Process Activation Service’ failed to start →