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Showing posts with label administration. Show all posts
Showing posts with label administration. Show all posts
Sunday, October 02, 2016

Leveraging VMware LogInsight for VM hardware inventory

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There is no doubt that VMware LogInsight is a must for any properly managed vSphere environment. I'm explaining LogInsight benefits to ...
Tuesday, April 08, 2014

PRTG alerts phone call notifications

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I have been asked by someone how to do phone call notification of critical alerts in PRTG monitoring system. Advantage of phone call notifi...
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Friday, January 31, 2014

Working with VCSA embedded database

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It's not often but sometimes you have to work with vCenter database. Usually it should be done only if you are instructed by VMware Sup...
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Monday, December 23, 2013

FreeBSD running from read-only compact flash disk and accessible over serial console (COM1)

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I very often use FreeBSD for some automation tasks or as a network appliance. I like hardware like SOEKRIS, ALIX and other similar rotate-l...
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Sunday, December 15, 2013

Redirect DELL PowerEdge server serial port to iDRAC

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Let's assume you use COM2 serial port for console access into your operating system. This is usually used on linux, freebsd or other *...
Tuesday, June 18, 2013

How to – use vmkping to verify Jumbo Frames

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Here is nice blog post about Jumbo Frame configuration on vSphere and how to test it works as expected. This is BTW excellent test for Ope...
Monday, June 17, 2013

PowerCLI One-Liners to make your VMware environment rock out!

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Christopher Kusek wrote excellent blog post about PowerCLI useful scripts fit single line. He call it one-liners. These one-liners can sign...
Thursday, May 16, 2013

Reduced vCenter DB by deleting old events and tasks from vCenter database

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In vCenter MS-SQL Database is storage procedure called cleanup_events_tasks_proc which deletes old data based on event and task retentio...
Monday, April 29, 2013

DELL PowerConnect Time Configuration

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Here is procedure how to setup it: enable configure sntp unicast client enable sntp server ntp.cesnet.cz end Here is how to verify...
Friday, June 01, 2012

DELL OMSA LiveCD / LiveDVD

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http://linux.dell.com/files/openmanage-contributions/om65-firmware-live/
Monday, March 21, 2011

Orion solarwinds

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Orion Network Performance Monitor (NPM) makes it easy to quickly detect, diagnose, and resolve performance issues within your ever-changin...
Wednesday, February 16, 2011

PowerGUI

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PowerGUI is an extensible graphical administrative console for managing systems based on Windows PowerShell. These include Windows OS (XP, ...
Monday, January 24, 2011

32 bit DSN on 64 bit Windows Server

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c:\windows\SysWOW64\odbcad32.exe

Synchronize the Time Server for the Domain Controller with an External Source

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Original article: Synchronize the Time Server for the Domain Controller with an External Source Updated: March 28, 2003 Applies To: Win...
Sunday, January 16, 2011

VMware: Timekeeping best practices for Windows

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http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1318
Monday, November 22, 2010

Getting the network adapters’ order in Windows

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http://saltwetbytes.wordpress.com/2009/10/17/getting-network-adapter-order-in-windows/
Friday, September 17, 2010

VMDK Handbook - Basics

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http://sanbarrow.com/vmdk-basics.html
Tuesday, June 29, 2010

NIMSOFT - flexible monitoring solution

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http://www.nimsoft.com/solutions/index.php
Monday, March 08, 2010

Nice syslog explenation

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http://content.hccfl.edu/pollock/AUnix2/Logging.htm
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Thursday, January 14, 2010

Mepis Linux

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LiveCD, System Recovery CD, Linux USB Boot Key https://www.mepis.org/