Benchmarking your Disk I/O
How fast is your storage? How do you even check what kind of throughput you are getting? That is a question that comes up often enough, when performing benchmarks. I actually dealt with such a case …
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Subscribe via RSS →Virtualization Domain Controllers - #2
I received a number of comments on my previous post and offline as well I want to clear up some things regarding the previous post. I am not against virtualizing domain controllers - not at all. I am …
Updating Pictures for Users in AD
I came across a nice article last week regarding pictures for User accounts in an Active Directory environment First let describe the issue at hand. Every now and again, my manager gets an email …
Virtualizing Domain Controllers
One of the frequent questions that come up on the forums is, “How do I convert (P2V) my Windows Domain Controller (or SBS Server)?” Let me first start with the following statement. …
ESXi Deployment Solution - Part 4
So today we will deal with how to get the scripts into the an ESXi installation. On Part 3 we dealt with what the scripts were and how to to use them So how do we get the script to run on startup? The …
vCenter Essentials - 3 Host Limit (not 6 CPU)
vSphere Essentials is a package that is for the SMB. At present there is a promotional offer (Until June 15, 2010) reducing the price from $995 to $495. In this package you receive vCenter and 3 ESX …
Set a Time Limit on Group Membership
One of the most surprising things that Microsoft have not yet provided in Active Directory management - is allowing you to set a time limit on assigning membership of a user to a group. Let me explain …
Monitor AD Replication Status with Powershell
Do you know the feeling? You have 40 domain controllers located in 20 different locations - with a multitude of child domains and children of those child domains, on all sides of the globe (yeah I …
ESXi Deployment Solution - Part 3
Today we will deal with the client and server scripts, and before we start I would like to get the definitions straight. Client Script: The script that is executed on the ESXi machine (Python) Server …
ESXi Deployment Solution - Part 2
Today we will be dealing with some details of the parts involved. In my previous post - I explained the rationale behind the whole process. So let us get into the schematics. An ESX server can be …