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• What are the best practices for a new employee to learn inside the instance of their business of Eloqua as efficiently as possible?

  We have companies everything changed at some point in our lives. And we all go through the process in the first weeks, where you feel new and are just trying to figure out how not to get lost on your way in the mornings.

  On top of that, trying to familiarize yourself with your new company Eloqua instance can be a daunting task, especially if it's a large organization.

  What are the best practices for new employees to learn as efficiently and effectively as possible?

  I am in this situation right now. Moved to a much larger organization. It is a huge task trying to understand all the ins and outs not only society, but also of the eloqua instance, especially when she is complex with many points of integration. I find that most of the learning happens when I really go do the work. I spent a ton of time going through the programs, documentation, integrations, etc., but after awhile, it's all just words on a page and not absorbed.

  The biggest thing that I recommend is to learn how and why things are made the way they are currently, ask lots of questions, don't assume not that things work the same as they did with your previous employer.

  Download some base in place level benchmarks to demonstrate additional improvement.

  Make a list of tasks in the long term. As a new pair of eyes, make a list of things you'd like to improve.

• Best practices for backup of a VM Web server?

  This question comes from another thread, that I created, but I figure I might as well start a thread fresh since it is his own question.

  Basically, I have an environment that I inherited when I started my new job within this environment, there is a lonely VM that runs from our Web server and was created using VMware player (will go to the workstation for the snapshot feature).

  I am extremely concerned by the fact that there is no backup strategy for it, so I'm interested in finding the best way to save this virtual machine.

  Being that it's a machine virtual I instantly thought, but of course I'm open to dictate what best practices.

  A lot of what I've read so far indicates to stop or suspend the virtual machine, then copy files, however is there a way to do that without temporarily take down my Web server?  It's just that we have customers in the world that has access to the server to different time zones and I want her to be in place 24/7.

  You'll have to stop the Virtual Machine and close VMware Player and uninstall VMware Player to install VMware Workstation and it is the time where you should make a backup copy of the master of the Virtual Machine.  Once installed VMware Workstation and the Virtual Machine is back and then runs to reduce the minimum time for subsequent backups you necessarily do not do such proposed by Richardson Porto although I don't disagree with what he says.

  In theory anyway, and in practice, when you want to backup you would take a cliché Hot and then copy the Parent disk such that it is now read-only and the Virtual Machine is still running while you make a copy of the Parent disk.  Once you have copied the Parent disk, you can then remove the snapshot thus merging Delta and drive Parent and now ready for the next time you want to back up the drive.  The duration of that Virtual Machine is interrupted during the snapshot warm and hot snapshot delete should be considerably less and then stop and restart the virtual machine.  The reason why I said "in theory" because while it is supposed to work in practice, nevertheless if you correctly shutdown the guest operating system before capture instant, so you do not rely on VMware Workstation to make sure that everything works all in being hot.  Not that you should have problems, it's hot, however you remove a layer of the process that has the potential of being wrong compared to when is cold, even if it is cold takes a little longer.

  In both cases, I would avoid cloning because it changes the UUID and MAC address of the clone of the parent company and by creating a second occurrence technically need a second license for the Windows operating system that is installed on the cloned virtual machine.  In other words an archived copy complete or exact unedited from the original is a legitimate backup a clone of IMO is a second occurrence but it has a different UUID and MAC address.  It would be like taking a copy of the operating system with a single license and install on two different physical computers.  Also by doing as I have suggested and make a backup copy of Master of the Virtual Machine and then just save the Parent read-only disks disk hard virtual are themselves not a computer virtual and just that copy a backup, however can be used to restore the same Virtual Machine driven and not having not any changes in the UUID MAC addresses etc.

  Finally, you should look into what you are running in the guest operating system and how to properly save Web Site and database, or user data etc in the guest operating system.  In other words, you should always have a copy backup of the virtual machine and everything that is necessary in the guest operating system to be able to restore it without necessarily restore all of the Virtual Machine.  IMO it's better to have several and backup types to have more options in a recovery scenario!

• Best practices for backup of vCenter device and ESXi hosts?

  Hello

  I have a new VMware environment based on 5.5 ESXi and vCenter Server Appliance. A few questions:

  • What is the best practice to perform the backup of the vCenter Server Appliance? I set up the camera with the embedded SQL Express database.
  • It's recommended to backup the ESXi host or is it easier to any re - install failure?

  Best regards
  ,

  Thor-Egil

  Hello

  You can use VMware VDP to backup your device of vCenter. It is included in essentials, standard, enterprise, and enterprise as well as licenses.

  I won't have backups of ESXi servers. Restore the backup would take more time that the deployment of a new ESXi.Only thing, you may want to consider is to enable logging remotely, so you can see why the hosts failed.

  Concerning

  Tim

• Best practices for backup service console configuration

  Hello

  When you install our ESX servers, I did what I thought was best practices and created a "backup" vswitch with a second service console. Two service consoles have IP addresses on the same subnet.

  They work very well for several weeks. But today, I had a problem connecting to the consoles of the virtual machines on one of our ESX host. After much troubleshooting, I found doc below...

  http://KB.VMware.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?language=en_US & externalId = 749640

  In point 8, it is said to make sure that you do not have 2 consoles of service on the same network. (Either by the way once I removed the backup vswitch I could access the consoles.)

  I so wanted to check this - should I not create these backup service consoles?

  TIA,

  H

  You don't have to second service console, just a second link to SC.

  Add a NIC to portgroup SC (it can be standby NIC), which would be enough.

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  VMware vExpert 2009

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• best practices for backup of bi

  Hello
  
  Who can suggest me best practices for backup and restore of dashboard reports integer bi, permissions and etc.?
  
  Ed,

  Hello

  If you want to move entire dashboards, reports, permissions
  Zip the *Web / catalog folder and move new environment. In new relax unwind this catalogue and Instanceconfig.xml mention the path for this new catalogue.

  If you want to move a few reports or dashboads, do so by Catalog Manager.

  Thank you.

• ORACLE_HOME on best practice database backup issue

  Hello
  The next question is about best practices.
  I would like to know if the ORACLE_HOME on the physical database should have the same name
  as the basis of primary data.
  For example, if the primary database name is: / u01/app/oracle/prodcut/1120/PROD
  According to best practices should also be: / u01/app/oracle/product/1120/PROD or it should be:
  / u01/app/oracle/product/1120/STDY?
  Thank you

  Yes.

  Given what you just said I agree that is the way to do it. So when patch arrives, you should be less likely to make a mistake.

  I probably create a 'home' of the decoder sheet and hung it near my desk.

  Best regards

  mseberg

• Issue of best practice

  Hello

  I mounted the UN lab pour assess vSphere 5.

  I have a switch and 2 servers.

  Problem:

  vCenter is currently on a VM Server n ° 2. Resources are not sufficient and it is possible that I will reinstall.

  Question:

  More than the way of the East which simple / Secure / quick pour transfer this VM on the server # 1.

  Good evening

  Without the use of special features, you can also:

  -clone the virtual machine

  -migrate from the

  fishing - your vcenter server.

  -start the clone vcenter server.

  and:

  -Since the clone migrate the original stop the clone / delete it and restart the original.

  UO:

  -check that the ok to EST vcenter.

  -delete the original and keep the clone.

  After I know best practices, but in any case by causing, you Microsoft have almost no interruption of service and you have a backup available in 2 clicks.

  He must just ensure that the 2 vm (original and clone is not started at the same time, otherwise you will create a conflict of @ ip).

  Good luck.

• Best practices for the restart of the nodes of the ISE?

  Hello community,

  I administer an ISE installation with two nodes (I'm not a specialist of the ISE, my job is simply to manage the user/mac-addresses... but now I have to move my ISE a VMWare Cluster nodes to another VMWare Cluster.

  (Both VMWare environments are connected to our network of the company, but are different environments. vMotion is not possible)

  I want to stop ISE02, move it to our new VMWare environment and start it again.

  That I could do this with our ISE01 node...

  Are there best practices to achieve this? (Stop request first, stopl replikation etc.) ?

  Can I really just reboot a node ISE - or I have consider something before I do this? After I did this?

  All tasks after reboot?

  Thanks for any answer!

  ISE01
  Administration, monitoring, Service policy
  PRI (A), DRY (M)

  ISE02
  Administration, monitoring, Service policy
  SEC (A), PRI (M)

  There is a lot to consider here.  If changing environments involves a change of IP address and IP extended, then your policies, profiles and DACL would also change among other things.  If this is the case, create a new VM ISE in the new environment in evaluation license using the and recreate the old environment deployment by using the address of the new environment scheme.  Then a new secondary node set rotation and enter it on the primary.  Once this is done, you can re - host license from your old environment on your new environment.  You can use this tool to re - host:

  https://Tools.Cisco.com/swift/LicensingUI/loadDemoLicensee?formid=3999

  If IP addressing is to stay the same, it becomes simpler.

  First and always, perform an operational backup and configuration.

  If the downtime is not a problem, or if you have a window of maintenance of an hour or so: just to close the two nodes.  Transfer to the new environment and light them, head node first, of course.

  If the downtime is a problem, stop the secondary node and transfer it to the new environment.  Start the secondary node and when he comes back, stop the main node.  Once that stopped services on the head node, promote the secondary node to the primary node.

  Transfer of the FORMER primary node to the new environment and turn it on.  She should play the role of secondary node.  If it is not the case, assign this role through the GUI.

  Remember, the proper way to shut down a node of ISE is:

  request stop ise

  Halt

  By using these commands, the risk of database corruption decreases by 90% (remember to always backup).

  Please rate useful messages and mark this question as answered if, in fact, does that answer your question.  Otherwise, feel free to post additional questions.

  Charles Moreton

• Looking for a best practices guide: complete replacement cluster

  Hello

  I was in charge as the complete replacement of our current environment hardware ESXi 5.0 U2 with a new cluster of servers running 5.1.

  Here are the basics:

  Currently, HP Blade Server chassis with 6 hypervisors running ESXi 5.0 U2, the company license, about 100 or so virtual running different operating systems - mainly MS 2003 R2 to 2008 R2, stores the data on without connected through ethernet connections 1 GB.

  Intended to run 7 independent servers as a cluster with ESXi 5.1, license of the company, connections to SAN be improved to 10 GB ethernet or fiber.  The range of virtual machines in the importance of 'can be restarted after hours' to ' should not be restarted or that will cost us money service interruptions.  (Looking for the options live - migrate if possible although I have my doubts, it will be an option given the cluster plans)

  I'm looking for a Guide to best practices (or a combination of the guides) which will help me to determine how best to plan the migration of VM - especially in light of the fact that the new cluster will be not part of the existing.  Given also the fact we upgrade is unable (due to problems on the chassis firmware) 5.1 before this work...

  Any pointers in the right direction would be great - look no no not a handout, just people signs

  See you soon.

  Welcome to the community - from vCenter 5.1 can manage an ESXi 5.0 host just one at a time do guests 5.0 5.1 and vmotion the VMs to new hosts - environment as the two environment will see the same SAN it will be necessary for storage vmotion.

• Best practices for automation of ghettoVCBg2 starting from cron

  Hello world!

  I set up an instance of vma for scheduling backups with ghettoVCBg2 in a SIN store. Everything works like a charm from the command line, I use vi fastpass for authentication, backups complete very well.

  However, I would like to invade the cron script and got stuck. Since vifp is designed to run only command line and as I read not supposed to work from a script, it seems that the only possibility would be to create a backup user dedicated with administrator privileges and store the user and pass in the shell script. I'm not happy to do so. I searched through the forums but couldn't ' find any simple solution.

  any IDE for best practices?

  Thank you

  eliott100

  In fact, incorrect. The script relies on the fact that the host ESX or ESXi are led by vi-fastpass... but when you run the script, it does not use vifpinit command to connect. It access credentials via the modules of vi-fastpass which don't vifpinit library but as you have noticed, you cannot run this utility in off-line mode. Therefore, it can be scheduled via cron, basically, but you must run the script interactively, just set up in your crontab. Please take a look at the documentation for more information

  =========================================================================

  William Lam

  VMware vExpert 2009

  Scripts for VMware ESX/ESXi and resources at: http://engineering.ucsb.edu/~duonglt/vmware/

  Twitter: @lamw

  repository scripts vGhetto

  Introduction to the vMA (tips/tricks)

  Getting started with vSphere SDK for Perl

  VMware Code Central - Scripts/code samples for developers and administrators

  VMware developer community

  If you find this information useful, please give points to "correct" or "useful".

• 1 hr, 2 users - best practices project

  Hello

  I was the only writer to our company for 6 years and more. I finally have someone to help me; However, this introduces a new challenge. We're going to * two * work on the same project HR, and we will use VSS to source code control. I don't know how we "share" this single HR project.

  Someone at - it of the best practices for when you work in this kind of situation?

  I have questions such as:

  • When the other person creates the Index keywords, what happens if I removed files - how will this affect the addition of keywords?
  • When the other person creates excerpts from news or new variables defined by the user, should immediately check them and let me know so that I can do a get latest and have new clips/variables in my project?
    
  • How do we manage the two of us working on the same project and saw that he had to extract / archive files, create new topics, etc - what should be our "workflow"?

  Thanks in advance for ANY help/advice anyone of you can provide!

  I like rule of Care author: keep things simple and robust. This topic covers the three basic methods of sharing help authoring tasks. In order of complexity:

  1. creation series. If you do not need to have the two authors of the project at the same time, you can just take turns working on the project. Just move the files back if necessary. It is the simpler and more robust approach.

  2. merger proposals. If you need simultaneous creation, then, Yes, it's an approach simpler and more robust than the source control. However, this works only if you can partition your hardware and your clearly demarcated into two or more parts work assignments. Mergers can be a great solution, but it does fit all cases.

  3. source control. If several authors need simultaneous access to the same material, then source control is the simplest answer.

  Here are a few tips and observations, based on my experience with RoboSource Control, in no particular order:

  1. source code control works best on small projects of medium size. Largest may be unstable.

  2. set up to restrict an author file extractions only. Allowing the two authors to work simultaneously on a single topic is bad.

  3. If possible, try to work in different areas of the project that are not. Remember that a single change in a subject can ripple on many related topics. (For example, if you change the name of file to a topic, all the links in this topic must be changed.) If someone else takes care of one of these topics, you will not be able to complete your initial change.

  4. backup of your projects regularly, even if they are in the source code control.

  5. create an administrator account to use just for that purpose. Do not use this account for the creation of the ordinary. All do not give administrator privileges.

  6 appoint a person as administrator. Have at least one backup administrator. It will be the people who put up user accounts, to substitute the extractions ("I need this file, and Joe's on vacation!"), resurrect the old files, adjust source control conflicts, etc..

  7 archive files as soon as you are finished with them. Don't let them verified any longer than necessary.

  8. If you have large scale projects, your virus scan utility can really degrade performance during certain operations, such as the initials "get" of the project files. If this is the case, you may be able to configure your antivirus program to be more respectful of these activities of source control.

  9. the authors of aid must remain in close communication. The other did know what you are doing, especially if you do something drastic like move folders. Be prepared to check something in the case of someone else in need.

  10 give a lot of thought to the structure of your project. Examine the structure of files, naming conventions, etc.

  11. some actions are more intensive than others source code control. (Move, delete or rename folders are biggies.) Your project is vulnerable, even if these changes are underway. If something is wrong until the process is completed, you can end up with a mess on your hands. For example, let's say there is a network problem while you move a folder, interruption of your connection with source code control. You may find yourself with HR thinking that the folder is in one place, while control of source code it is in another. The result is broken links and missing files. Time for the administrator to intervene and fix things. It is almost never a problem for small projects. It becomes a real problem for large projects.

  12. If you get near a date limit, DO NOT choose this time to reorganize and rename files and folders.

  13 follow the appropriate procedure for adding a project to source code control. Bad really do spoil you. It is easy to add a project to RoboSource Control. I can't speak for other solutions to source control.

  14. it may be necessary to rebuild your cpd file more often than with uncontrolled sources projects.

  15. I just lately that you must back up your source files?

  HTH,

  G

• Best practices Upgrade Path - Server 3 to 5?

  Hello

  I am trying a migration and upgrade of a server in the Profile Manager. I currently run an older mac mini Server 10.9.5 and Server 3 with a vast installation of Profile Manager. I recently successfully migrated the server itself out of the old mac mini on a Xserve end 2009 of cloning the drive. Still of double controls everything, but it seems that the transition between the mini and the Xserve was successful and everything works as it should (just with improved performance).

  My main question is now that I want to get this software-wise at day and pass to the Server 5 and 10.11. I see a lot of documentation (still officially Apple) best practices for the upgrade of the Server 3 to 4 and Yosemite, but can't find much on the Server 5 and El captain, a fortiori from 3 to 5. I understand that I'll probably have to buy.app even once and that's fine... but should I be this staging with 10.9 to 10.10 and Server 4... Make sure that all is well... and the jump off 10.11 and Server 5... Or is it 'safe' (or ok) to jump 3 to 5 Server (and 10.9.5 to 10.11.x)? Obviously, the AppStore is pleased to make the jump from 10.9 to 10.11, but once again, looking for best practices here.

  I will of course ensure that all backups are up-to-date and make another clone just before any which way that take... but I was wondering if someone has made the leap from 3-5... and had things (like the Profile Manager) still work correctly on the other side?

  Thanks for any info and/or management.

  In your post I keep the Mini running Server 3, El Capitan and Server 5 install the Xserve and walk through setting up Server 5 by hand. Things that need to be 'migrated' as Open directory must be handled by exporting the mini and reimport on Xserve.

  According to my experience, OS X Server facilities that were "migrated" always seem to end up with esoteric problems that are difficult to correct, and it's easier to adopt the procedure above that to lose one day try.

  YMMV

  C.

• Best practices for the .ini file, reading

  Hello LabViewers

  I have a pretty big application that uses a lot of communication material of various devices. I created an executable file, because the software runs on multiple sites. Some settings are currently hardcoded, others I put in a file .ini, such as the focus of the camera. The thought process was that this kind of parameters may vary from one place to another and can be defined by a user in the .ini file.

  I would now like to extend the application of the possibility of using two different versions of the device hardware key (an atomic Force Microscope). I think it makes sense to do so using two versions of the .ini file. I intend to create two different .ini files and a trained user there could still adjust settings, such as the focus of the camera, if necessary. The other settings, it can not touch. I also EMI to force the user to select an .ini to start the executable file using a dialog box file, unlike now where the ini (only) file is automatically read in. If no .ini file is specified, then the application would stop. This use of the .ini file has a meaning?

  My real question now solves on how to manage playback in the sector of .ini file. My estimate is that between 20-30 settings will be stored in the .ini file, I see two possibilities, but I don't know what the best choice or if im missing a third

  (1) (current solution) I created a vi in reading where I write all the .ini values to the global variables of the project. All other read only VI the value of global variables (no other writing) ommit competitive situations

  (2) I have pass the path to the .ini file in the subVIs and read the values in the .ini file if necessary. I can open them read-only.

  What is the best practice? What is more scalable? Advantages/disadvantages?

  Thank you very much

  1. I recommend just using a configuration file.  You have just a key to say what type of device is actually used.  This will make things easier on the user, because they will not have to keep selecting the right file.

  2. I use the globals.  There is no need to constantly open, get values and close a file when it is the same everywhere.  And since it's just a moment read at first, globals are perfect for this.

• Material LV real-time Ethernet com best practices

  Hello

  I just started to learn the LV in real-time, and until I get a new cRIO I just played with a former PSC-2220.

  Everything works, I am reading the tutorals nice about RT and deployment/running example to this target applications.

  However, I don't know what is the best practice, the IP address of this device handling. For easy installation, after a device reset (and install the new RT runtimes, etc) I put just the HW to obtain the dynamic IP address of my router (DHCP). My laptop connects to the same router via wifi.

  However, since after a few resets the target Gets a new IP (192.168.0.102, previous IP was... (104), I have to manually change the IP address in my project. Is it possible that the LV auto detects the target in my project? In addition, it seems that MAX retains the old information and creates a new line for the same target... so I guess that if the problem persists, MAX is going to fill? See screenshots below.

  As a solution, I'll try to use static IP for the target, so it must always use the same IP address.

  What is the common procedure to avoid this kind of problems? Just using static IP? Or miss me him too something else here?

  Thank you!

  

  I just always use static IP addresses.  It avoids just all kinds of questions, especially if you have several systems on the same network.