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Introduction to Storage Networking and Design | Daniels networking blog

5 May, 2015

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

14 April, 2015

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

16 June, 2014

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

9 June, 2014

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

4 November, 2013

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

4 November, 2013

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

4 November, 2013

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

13 August, 2013

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

29 July, 2013

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.

VMware KB: Network port diagram for vSphere 5.x

10 July, 2013

For a excellent guide to IP ports used.

 

VMware KB: Network port diagram for vSphere 5.x.