I work in an AD environment, powered by Windows Server 2003. When I received my new workstation loaded with Vista, I was able to join the domain and all was good. After 2 days of using it, I started receiving the “The security database on...
The biggest concern with home computers is how slow they get over time. You see and hear about this through ads, articles, web sites, your friends, ect. This is also one of the biggest reasons I have a client base for home repairs. I would...
This is a fun one. The server will boot fine into Debug mode or Service Console Only mode, but will not boot normally. Seems this is a common problem with the latest patches. I’ve also seen it happen after a BIOS upgrade. Boot into Debug...
UPDATE UPDATE UPDATE This method is no longer needed. Install SD as normal, and drop the latest service pack jar file into “installation path\Hewlett-Packard\OpenView\service desk 4.5\client\lib” and start the client. The issue with HP Service Desk 4.5 on Windows 7 has been an...
Configuring SNMP for ESXi is completely different from ESX.This will need to be run from a vMA or from the vmware-cli installed on your machine. The command to run is: vicfg-snmp.pl –server ESXiServer -c Community1,Community2 -p 161 -t trap1ipaddress@161/trapcommunityname,trap2ipaddress@161/trapcommunityname,trap3ipaddress@161/trapcommunityname You will then be prompted for...
One issue when taking advantage of ESXi’s small footprint with USB keys or SD cards is the lack of storage area for syslogs. Unless you are running a centralized syslog for your ESXi hosts, you will need to specify local syslogs. This is easily done....
UPDATE The script below will do it by cluster, and is significantly faster. This way it only looks for datastores that are not already set to round robin. The previous script sets everything even if it was already set. Connect-VIServer vCenterServer get-cluster “Cluster Name” |...
Sometimes VMware Tools installations can get into an odd state. The only option in your “Guest” menu for the tools is to end the install. Often, this will return an error stating it cannot complete the command. The commands below are a quick way to...