Category Archives: Virtualisation

Home Lab Superguide (TinkerTry IT @ home)

15 May, 2014

I brilliant guide created with links to all the VMware Home Lab guides done by others.

TinkerTry IT @ home | Superguide: Home virtualization server enthusiasts’ colorful variety of ESXi whiteboxes.

Free Infrastructure Resources – Host, Network, Storage and more

10 April, 2014

A great blog listing all free resources for those interesting in creating a Home Lab.

Head over to Jonathan Frappier’s Blog for the details:

Free Infrastructure Resources – Host, Network, Storage and more.

Auto-Harden ESXi 5.x Hosts – softwareab

20 March, 2014

A good guide to hardening the security on ESXi 5.x hosts – although the standards defined are from the USA – there are a good best practices that anyone can use.

Auto-Harden ESXi 5.x Hosts – softwareab.

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.