Category Archives: Knowledge Base
Introduction to Storage Networking and Design | Daniels networking blog
A nice quick simple introduction to storage and storage networking blog.
Source: Introduction to Storage Networking and Design | Daniels networking blog.
Visio Stencils | Jonathan’s Technology Blog
Visio Stencils | Jonathan’s Technology Blog.
A great blog posting by Jonathan listing all the useful visio stencils that IT professional like to use – save time finding them – there listed here.
“Hard code” your KMS server into the registry | IT by me
A nice guide on how to hard code KMS clients to a KMS Server over on the blog site “IT by me”.
Understanding the EMC VNX/Celerra AntiVirus Agent CAVA: Part 2 – Common Errors – Thulin’ Around
Good, easy to follow error message and fixes for the EMC CAVA (Anti-Virus for the Celerra.
Understanding the EMC VNX/Celerra AntiVirus Agent CAVA: Part 2 – Common Errors – Thulin’ Around.
Setting time on ESXi hosts through PowerCLI | Geaux Virtual
Excellent powershell to set the correct time on a number of hosts…
I expanded the code to:
Get-Cluster -Name “Cluster” | Get-VMHost | Where-Object {
$t = Get-Date
$dst = $_ | %{ Get-View $_.ExtensionData.ConfigManager.DateTimeSystem }
$dst.UpdateDateTime((Get-Date($t.ToUniversalTime()) -format u))
}
via Setting time on ESXi hosts through PowerCLI | Geaux Virtual.
vSphere ESXi Maintenance Mode with PowerCLI | Virtual Drive
Good code snippets for vmware host maintenance mode.
vSphere ESXi Maintenance Mode with PowerCLI | Virtual Drive.
PowerCLI: Remove all vmnics from a vSwitch — DAMIAN KARLSON
Hand tip on how to remove pNics from a vSwitch
$nic = @
via PowerCLI: Remove all vmnics from a vSwitch — DAMIAN KARLSON.
URL: Virtual Consultant for you Datacenter: Unlocking and resetting vCenter SSO admin account
Handy step by step guide – was looking in case I needed it. Luckily account auto unlocks after 15 mins. 🙂
Virtual Consultant for you Datacenter: Unlocking and resetting vCenter SSO admin account.
VMware KB: ESXi/ESX hosts with visibility to RDM LUNs being used by MSCS nodes with RDMs may take a long time to boot or during LUN rescan
This was a great find – fixed the 45 minute boot time due to the large number of RDMs in use:
VMware KB: Network port diagram for vSphere 5.x
For a excellent guide to IP ports used.