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Introduction to Storage Networking and Design | Daniels networking blog

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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

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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

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A nice guide on how to hard code KMS clients to a KMS Server over on the blog site “IT by me”.   “Hard code” your KMS server into the registry | IT by me.

Understanding the EMC VNX/Celerra AntiVirus Agent CAVA: Part 2 – Common Errors – Thulin’ Around

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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This was a great find – fixed the 45 minute boot time due to the large number of RDMs in use: 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.