Tag: VMWare
VMUG 2014 – UK User Conference #VendorSwag
My #VendorSwag from the VMUG 2014 event held on the 18h November 2014 at the Birmingham Motorcycle Museum.
Event details: http://www.vmug.com/p/cm/ld/fid=5161
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.
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.
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Don’t forget folks to grab the excellent and free ebooks on VMware. See:
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