Archive
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2022
2021
- May 5How to setup DNS forwarding for specific domains (i.e. home.lab)
- Apr 29Team Rules
- Mar 24SRE BUZZWORD BINGO
- Mar 24What does SRE commonly do, the five principals of SRE
2020
- Sep 30What is SRE
- Apr 10WD Red Price Per GB April 2020
2019
- May 3Blogs on VMware site
2018
- Aug 23Troubleshooting 101
2016
2013
- Dec 9VMware vSAN IOPS testing
- Dec 8VMware vSphere 5.5 vSAN beta ineligable disks
- Nov 25VMworld 2013 Hands On Labs Dashboards
- Aug 28VMworld HOL using VCVA (vCenter Virtual Appliance)
- Aug 28ESXi 5.1vHost vDS ports on an stateless reverts to 512 after reboot
- Jul 3vSphere 5.1 Update1 PSOD Fix Build
- Jul 2Storage IOPS Planning
- May 9New performance and optimizations guides for Cloud and vSphere
- May 9Getting your memory savings back on with ESXi and small memory pages
- Apr 26vDS port limits
- Mar 11Datastore connectivity issues
2012
- Sep 20Can’t create a VMware Standard Switch vSS with vSphere web (next gen) client
- Sep 19Deploying a VMware vCloud Director (vCD) 5.1 virtual appliance with MS SQL backend
- Sep 18Deploy a VMware vCloud Director (vCD) 5.1 using RHEL 6.2
- Sep 11Disable Fibre Channel HBA so I can connect to another Fabric
- Sep 7What’s new Guides for new products launched at VMworld 2012
- Aug 6Lab Manager 4 runs out of ports on your vDS
- Jul 31VCDX Spotlight #91
- Jul 30User’s AD account being locked out by vCenter 5.0 server, how I found our culprit
- Jul 27Can’t take ownership of a file on Windows 2008 Server
- Jul 20My Troubleshooting a HP Flex 10 FCoE connection to a Cisco Fiber Channel MDS Switch
- Jul 19Cisco MDS Zoning
- Jul 19EMC VNX Storage Pool Design & Configuration
- Jun 25Changing passwords on a TFS (Microsoft Team foundation server 2008) Service Account
- May 24VCDX #91
- May 22VCDX thoughts
- May 22EMC world 2012 day 1 thoughts
- May 4Lab Manager ESX 4.1 Host can’t join back into Lab Manager, reporting error “Host is entering maintenance mode”
- Apr 20Removing an ESX(i) host from a DvS (distributed virtual Switch)
- Apr 18VCDX Application
- Mar 19Windows DNS Zone transfer's not working (non-AD)
- Mar 19How to make vCloud keytool Self Signed Certificates that last more than the default of 120 days
- Mar 16Setting up MRTG for bits instead of bytes
- Mar 8Quick and Dirty Junos for dummies I learned today while configuring my SRX240
- Feb 27I think my cloud might be slightly over provisioned
- Feb 22VMware HA policy restricting VM deployment well before ESXi Hosts have reached capacity.
- Feb 10Isilon NFS load balancing & vCD 1.5 (cloud director)
- Feb 10Import ISO to vCD 1.5
- Jan 26Where to find the SQL 64 bit Native Client for vCenter Installs
- Jan 26VMware Host Profiles giving errors about Path Selection Policy for naa and mpx devices
- Jan 23Setup VLAN tagging for ESXi on a Dell Blade Server using Dell PowerConnect M8024-k chassis switches
- Jan 18Divide single Dell NIC into multiple NICs, going from 2 to 8 nics per blade Dell Blade Server
- Jan 18Missing LUNS from openfiler iscsi device on ESXi 5.0
- Jan 17See old entries in vSphere “Tasks & Events”
- Jan 10How to reboot a dell Server’s iDRAC
- Jan 5I love the smell of a new EMC rack in the morning
2011
- Dec 15PowerCLI command to enumerate VM’s mac address inside of vCenter
- Dec 15Trying to find a machine on a HP VirtConnect blade by Mac address
- Nov 29Something I learned today about vMotion & Cisco switches
- Nov 20Web browser’s default auto detect proxy server feature chooses proxy server I don’t want to use.
- Nov 17HP blade chassis I/O Configuration – I/O Communication - I/O Mismatch Error
- Nov 3VLANs on HP BL490G7 blades using Flex-10 not working with vSphere 5 / ESXi 5
- Oct 31Determine which ESXi Host has a .vmdk file locked
- Oct 31Migrate VM from VMware Server 2 to vSphere ESXi 5
- Oct 3Storage Path Selection Policy Choices
- Aug 4Setting up Sysprep for vCloud
- Aug 4Installing Windows XP in the cloud (VMware vCloud Director)
- Aug 2Lab Manager API deployment issue
- Jul 25vCloud User and Resource Organization
- Jul 19vCD (vCloud Director) Provider vDC Setup problem
- Jul 11R.I.P. my first iPad2 4/4/11 to 7/8/11
- Jul 8Minimum vCM (VMware vCenter Configuration Manager) 5.4 install
- Jul 1Can’t modify-edit-save hosts file under 2008 R2
- Jun 19Setting google as the default search engine for IE (internet explorer)
- Jun 17NetApp can’t see our HP Blades and vice-versa
- Jun 17Moving a vCenter server into a EVC cluster.
- Jun 13The problem is that I can’t find the ‘any’ key
- Jun 10If your running HP Virtual Connect, you better upgrade to 3.17
- Jun 8Today is IPv6 day, what a joke.
- Jun 6So that’s what 2.7TB of ram looks like.
- May 28Copy File problem in windows 7 x64
- May 25My First NetApp
- May 23Lab Manger Login Error: The username -whatever- already exists in vCenter Lab Manager. Please ask your Administrator to delete the previous user account.
- May 14Lab Manager HA Settings
- May 13vCD vCloud Director not allowing Media CD ISO uploads from IE
- Apr 30Best iPad Apps
- Mar 30Can’t sudo on a CentOS box
- Mar 18vSphere iPad app is pretty cool
- Mar 18(untitled)
- Mar 14NS-120 Celerra Excitement
- Mar 14VM problems after a power outage
- Mar 8Deploy from Template, can't modify unattend.xml
- Feb 8The VMware VirtualCenter Server service hung on starting
- Jan 27delpart (now diskpart) in windows 7 rocks
2010
- Dec 17Installing VMware vCM 5.4 and trying to collect vCenter data, what version of PowerShell do I have installed?
- Dec 8VDR backups failing due to error -390 ( cannot quiesce virtual machine)
- Dec 6Consolidate VMDK disks
- Nov 12ESXi NTP not syncing
- Nov 11How to build a Lab Manager Server using ESX or ESXi
- Nov 10The disadvantages to using ESXi instead of ESX for Lab Manager
- Oct 18Where does vCenter 4 hide the sysprep location
- Oct 5CentOS 5.5 iSCSI target setup with TGT
- Oct 4Removing or changing hosts that a Clariion sees that are Manually registered
- Sep 27Celerra Setup problems
- Sep 22Change Celerra IP address
- Sep 17I love when a question becomes a standard
- Aug 31When VMW says that vCenter needs a static IP
- Aug 27vSphere 4.1 upgrade gotchas
- Aug 23Remove Non-Present Devices from Device Manager
- Aug 20Upgrade iLo on a whole HP chassis
- Aug 19How to upgrade Cisco 9124 NX-OS
- Jul 14Lab Manager 4 datastore thresholds
- Jun 29Need to get a list of DC’s, but i’m not a domain admin
- Jun 18Install ESX 4 host certificate from windows CA
- Jun 4How to add Media Store to Lab Manager Organization
- Jun 4Rename a Lab Manager 4 server
- Jun 1Difficulty putting Lab Manager ESX host into maintenance mode.
- Apr 21After the McAfee fix, your svchost.exe may be in Quarantene
- Apr 21Continued DAT fun with McAfee 5958
- Apr 21Thank you McAfee for releasing Dat 5958 and destroying my windows network
- Apr 12windows username limit
- Apr 780003ES2LAN and Jumbo Frames
- Mar 26Lab Manager Enable Local Admin Account Vista
- Mar 26sysprep unattend.xml and Lab Manager
- Mar 25XP 64 sysprep issues in Lab Manager 4
- Mar 23Problems with P2V of a physical server
- Mar 20XP mode for Windows 7 no longer requires processor VT
- Mar 15Remote Desktop Error
- Feb 17Lab Manager 4.0 Best Practices & Design Considerations
- Feb 11Update to HP Firmware issue
- Feb 9Setting up Virtual Center 4 ( vCenter )
- Feb 3Update to HP BL490c Firmware Issue
- Jan 28Error about “Bus 0 Enclosure 0” when creating LUN on EMC Clariion array, but your not creating a LUN on “Bus 0 Enclosure 0”
- Jan 26Just in case you lose your password, or the Fiber Channel Cisco MDS 9124e for your c7000 blade enclosure ships with a password you don’t know like mine was
- Jan 26Helped HP trace down a firmware issue today
- Jan 18HP Virtual Connect Manager
- Jan 13Ready to build a new VMWare Lab Manager 4.0 instance
2009
- Dec 29Diskpart in windows 7 is awesome
- Dec 15MetaLUN Research
- Dec 11Does this seem bad to anyone else?
- Nov 24Copy a license to a cisco device via tftp
- Nov 6red X when replying to email or sending new email via OWA on Exchange 2003
- Oct 20Weird problem where a shared calendar mailbox keeps sending emails to group
- Sep 30Gmail's Evil account lockout tool Captcha
- Sep 22So you've decided to add another nic to openfiler 2.3
- Sep 19Openfiler 2.3 intel nics disappear after applying updates
- Sep 18Passed the VCP4 (vcp410) exam today
- Sep 15HP ESX Management Agent Cheat Sheet
- Sep 14Tips for VCP 410 Exam
- Sep 11Build a ESX 4 Host
- Sep 11Hey look Email's aren't being delivered
- Sep 10Vizioncore's best practices for ESX host setup
- Aug 31ESX4 Web Admin
- Aug 24EMC Clariion unmanageable
- Aug 12I want to know what users to harass because their mailbox is too large
- Aug 12Exchange Send-As problem
- Aug 4DC's out of Time Sync
- Jul 30Exchange Not delivering emails(SCR Replication), Active Mailbox Delivery Queue Length growing, Information store wont start Exchange 2007
- Jul 28I couldn't seem to find replmon on 2008 server
- Jul 20When you install ESX
- Jun 19UPS-Tastic
- Jun 8Scanning with nmap
- Jun 8Services that may be disabled in a VM
- May 30ESX 4 HA Errors
- May 30ISA 2006 Firewall Service won't start
- May 21Things I needed to Deploy SSTP (windows 2008 HTTPS/SSL VPN)
- May 20How to find and kill a hung VM on ESX 3.5
- May 19Issues using ISA 2006 for a back firewall
- May 12Really awesome new stuff in Windows 7
- Apr 27Ok, I think I finally have a work around to the BL460C ASR reboots and ILO error 57's
- Apr 27and the fun keeps going
- Apr 24HP Blade Server rebooting for no apparent reason
- Apr 16MAC ARP Poisoning, The case of the missing response packets ISA
- Apr 7How to Query Machine owner (registered windows) from a command prompt
- Feb 24User Can't open another users mailbox, "The name cannot be resolved."
- Feb 12Removing Legacy Permissions from Pure Exchange 2007 Environment
- Feb 6Exchange 2007 scripted removal of Sendas AD rights
- Feb 5Adding NT AUTHORITY\SELF back for permissions to your mailboxes
- Feb 5Now that you've found out someone needs to have their permissions cleaned out from other mailboxes
- Feb 5Find out what permissions a user has to Exchange 2007 Mailboxes
- Jan 30ESX sees Raid Adapater, but it isn't available for a VMFS volume
- Jan 30Asus DSBV-DX mobo, Raid & ESX
- Jan 158 minimum Windows Security Best Practices
- Jan 8Windows 7 Beta1
2008
- Dec 19IT Security Top 10 Tips for 2009
- Dec 9How to change ESX SSL so its actually trusted.
- Dec 9ESX 3.5 Default & Suggested Partition Sizes
- Nov 25Symantec changes mind about VMotion Support
- Nov 25Can't Log into 2008 Server with network account
- Nov 19Symantec doesn't support SAV OR SEP on VM's..awesome
- Nov 18Some Good Alternative Apps
- Nov 14Exchange 2007 Can't Receive Large(er) Attachments = 20mb
- Nov 5Another Acrobat 8 Vulnerability
- Nov 3Good Blog Post for Combining ESX VI3 Licenses
- Nov 3(untitled)
- Oct 28Sweet Tool to email text files to yourself
- Oct 28Enable Virtual Center Single Sign on SSO
- Oct 24Exchange 2007 Public Folders Rights
- Oct 24Vmware Server Won't Install on 2003 R2 x64
- Oct 24(untitled)
- Sep 24ESX HA Errors
- Sep 24Tips for Common ESX HA Errors
- Sep 22Notes to make the openfiler 2.2 instructions below work (the "simple stuff" he left out)
- Sep 22Openfiler/software linux raid misc commands and pieces of info
- Sep 19Setting up Jumbo Packets with ESX 3.5
- Sep 16Free ESX / Compliance Checker Tool
- Sep 142008 boot.ini or lack thereof
- Aug 31Build a cheap NFS or iSCSI you can cluster for testing ESX HA or whatever
- Aug 30Domain Controller Problems & AD DNS not syncing.
- Jul 30After Migrating an ESX VM (local storage to local storage) I get an error "The parent virtual disk has been modified since the child was created"
- Jul 28ISA 2006 Reverse Proxy dies with 23006 error
- Jul 15GPO VPN connections
- Jul 10Weird DHCP issue ..resolved
- Jul 1More IIS FTP7
- Jul 1132GB of ram in a workstation
- Jul 1Word 2007 Prints garbage on envelopes
- Jul 1asp (not dot net) troubleshooting is awful in 2008/IIS7
- Jul 1Installing IIS FTP7 in a shared config