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.
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.
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.
Good code snippets for vmware host maintenance mode. vSphere ESXi Maintenance Mode with PowerCLI | Virtual Drive.
Hand tip on how to remove pNics from a vSwitch $nic = @ via PowerCLI: Remove all vmnics from a vSwitch — DAMIAN KARLSON.
All set to attend the EMC forum in London on Monday 21st October 2013. Will be as usual seeing how much freebies, or as I call it, Vendor Swag that I can collect. 🙂 I will try to live tweet and blog as I find cool swag. As well as rhe the swag, there are … Read more
Useful command line reference for the EMC File part of the VNX and NS arrays. Useful Celerra / VNX File Commands | The SAN Guy.
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.
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.
For a excellent guide to IP ports used. VMware KB: Network port diagram for vSphere 5.x.