Things I Want to Remember
There are many things I wished I could remember, and so I saved a link, or two, or three, along with some docs or pdf’s. Now, I wish I could remember where I had saved them, or what I had called them....
View Articleputtycm making life easier for the admin
For those who haven’t seen it in action. I would strongly recommend checking it out. By “it”, I mean putty connection manager or puttycm for short. Undoubtedly, every single person managing ESX or...
View ArticleWhen a Reconnect is Not Enough
I’ve found myself having to follow these steps to repair a “disconnected” host several times and following several different operations. Instead of re-writing the steps multiple times in several...
View ArticleDPM thoughts
After a couple of weeks of running DPM to cut down on our power consumption, I’ve come out with a few thoughts. Naturally, I’m sharing. First, it is very cool to see this in action. Took a bit of...
View ArticleDPM and VUM
Another little tidbit of DPM goodness. In case you were not aware, as I was not, with DPM enabled, scanning host through VUM (VMware Update Manager) brings the entire cluster out of standby mode. I...
View ArticleHP C7000 iLO FW Update
Here’s another script to update iLO firmware. Thanks to Zach for this one also. This script will update iLO firmware on blades 2 – 7, pulling the firmware image from a ftp server. HPONCFG 2 , 3 , 4 , 5...
View ArticleEmulex Bios Boot Target / Device Limit
Just ran into an interesting, read annoying, limitation with using Emulex HBA’s in my environment. I haven’t been able to find official confirmation of this in a whitepaper or document out there, so...
View ArticleVCP5 thoughts
After having gone through a few different trainings (Cisco/RHEV/Hyper-V/Oracle OVM), I finally got back to some good ‘ole VMware learning. Went through some docs, and decided to go after VCP5. Glad...
View ArticlevCenter Custom Event Trigger Alarm for Permission Change
After our last audit, there were a couple of areas that were found to be lacking, in terms of proper identification and monitoring. One such deficit, was the lack of a way to properly monitor when...
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