This is a bit off the normal topic, but I found a post over at XDA that finally resolved my GPS issues on my phone. Original post here Copied the directions below. If it works for you go register an account and thank the guy...
We’re getting ready to migrate to 2 new vCenter 5 servers from vCenter 4. I’ve been looking for a way to easily export information from vCenter so I can distribute the detail to the members of the ops team. Today I found a site that...
Today our storage admin was adding some disks to our backup media server and he accidentally initialized a VMFS datastore from the windows box. Needless to say, this made us lose a bunch of VM’s. In my case, the data was unrecoverable. We are restoring...
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” |...