Sneak Preview of ESXi Deployment Solution
Well after cursing more than once at Python on Twitter over the past week or so - I finally got managed to overcome This is a sneak preview of my ESXi Deployment Solution How exactly it works - will …
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Subscribe via RSS →Deploy-ESXi v1.0 - My ESXi Script-0-Mania entry
As I posted a few weeks ago - I entered the ESXi Script-0-Mania Contest. Unfortunately, my entry was not chosen as one of the top entries, but hey - I don’t do this for the money - I enjoy what …
Install EMC PowerPath/VE with Update Manager
I was looking into this a short while ago – after updating the hosts to Update 4.01. This VMware KB – 1018740 will show you the way. Download the the Powerpath/VE 5.4 SP1 package from Powerlink (if …
Inject VMware drivers into Source OS before P2V
P2V a machine - who does not want to get rid of all their physical machines to get the rid of the old hardware? If so raise you hand! So now that we have that out the way - P2V’ing a Windows …
SureBackup by Veeam
I was one of a few blogger that were invited to participate yesterday in a Bloggers briefing - given by Doug Hazelman - presenting Veeam’s new product Surebackup. Well this is not actually a new …
Distribution and Security Groups
I was asked to day at work, “What would be the quickest way to add all of the members of a Distribution Group to a Security Group?”, the reason of course being because you cannot assign …
CD Connected to Another Client
While trying to VMotion a VM I hit an error because of a Mounted CD. Well you might say – that is simple. Just go into the GUI and then disconnect it. But this time it was connected and open in …
A running VM that did not exist
This was a weird one that hit me today. I had a performance issue on a server. esxtop is the first I thing I looked at and got this: ID GID NAME NWLD %USED %RUN %SYS %WAIT %RDY 69 69 VSE 5 83.98 85.74 …
Network Ports needed for VMware Products
As usual looking for this list of which ports need to be punched through the firewall in order allow all kinds of services to work correctly. Well today – I tried to scan a host for (that is behind a …
Generate a Random Password - Powershell
A task that I do quite often when building a new System is to create random password a local user on the machine – Don’t ask – it is a an OPSEC requirement from way before my time. So instead of …