Those Annoying thing in Powershell
Powershell v2.0 has a cmdlet that allows you to send an email Send-MailMessage NAME Send-MailMessage SYNOPSIS Sends an e-mail message. SYNTAX Send-MailMessage [-To] <string[]> [-Subject] …
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Subscribe via RSS →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 …
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 …
Customize a Template During Deployment
When deploying a Virtual Machine from a template you have the option of Using the Customization Specifications for Automating Deployment. I am sure this has been mentioned more than once but I could …
ESX 4.0 Active Directory Authentication
There are numerous posts about how to use Active Directory to authenticate your ssh logins to your ESX servers. Jason Boche,Travis Laird, Geert Baeke The idea is pretty simple Configure the ESX server …
Is 100mb Enough for the Service Console?
It is accepted practice amongst most of the virtualization world that you can use a 100mb/s link for your Service Console port, because there is not much traffic that is flowing over that link. Well …
Disabling Web Services in ESXi
Duncan posted this one this evening. So to add to his post there is a way to “hide” the web service at least front page in ESXi the configuration file that is responsible for all this is …
Bug in SNMP traps sent from vCenter
I encountered this today. I was trying to configure the alarm for datastore usage. Relatively simple operation - there is even a built in alarm for this in vCenter So I configured the alarm to fire to …