Auto-Harden ESXi 5.x Hosts – softwareab
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.
Setting time on ESXi hosts through PowerCLI | Geaux Virtual
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
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
Hand tip on how to remove pNics from a vSwitch
$nic = @
via PowerCLI: Remove all vmnics from a vSwitch — DAMIAN KARLSON.
EMC forum 2013 – London
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 some interesting keynotes.
Any twitter followers attended and like to meet up. Let us know via twitter.
Useful Celerra / VNX File Commands | The SAN Guy
Useful command line reference for the EMC File part of the VNX and NS arrays.
URL: Virtual Consultant for you Datacenter: Unlocking and resetting vCenter SSO admin account
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
This was a great find – fixed the 45 minute boot time due to the large number of RDMs in use:
VMware KB: Network port diagram for vSphere 5.x
For a excellent guide to IP ports used.
VMware KB: Correlating vCenter Server and ESXi/ESX host build numbers to update levels
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.