Friday, 20 September 2013

PowerCLI script to check VIBs on a host

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I work in an environment where ESXi hosts require a lot of additional software to be installed.  Examples include a specific Cisco VEM modul...

VMware vSphere Storage Appliance (VSA) Installation and Removal Tricks

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I've recently had the pleasure of playing around with VMware's vSphere Storage Appliance.  I would like to quickly point out some o...
Monday, 6 May 2013

PowerCLI to enable LockDown Mode on all hosts

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Here is a quick and easy way to make sure that LockDown Mode is enabled on all your hosts using PowerCLI (if your environment dictates it) ...

vCenter VPXD.exe process using 100% memory

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We recently had an issue in an environment that I am looking after that caused the VPXD.exe (vcenter server service) to use 100% of the memo...
Tuesday, 23 April 2013

VMware VRM Server not able to connect to local vCenter Server

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If you install the VRM Server as part of vSphere Replication (this problem is from version 5.0.2) you may see this error in the hms log file...
Thursday, 4 April 2013

Resetting a Local Administrator Account Password in Windows 2008 R2

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Had trouble using the NT Password utility or any other recover tool to reset a local administrator account for Windows 2008 R2?   Well here...
Tuesday, 19 March 2013

Replacing a failed disk in ZFS

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As you can see below running “zpool status” shows me that disk c6d0 has faulted (before you replace the disk you can run "format...