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Home Lab Superguide (TinkerTry IT @ home)

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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.

Auto-Harden ESXi 5.x Hosts – softwareab

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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

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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.

VMware KB: Correlating vCenter Server and ESXi/ESX host build numbers to update levels

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A great knowledge base article outlining vmware products and there build number to version numbers. VMware KB: Correlating vCenter Server and ESXi/ESX host build numbers to update levels.