Another cool tool from Chris Wright called NTFS Permissions Reporter which allows you to create reports on directory permissions on file servers. The reporting is very fast, and allows you to see which users and groups have access to which directories. Chris also programmed another tool which I’ve reported on called AD Tidy and which allows […]
VCDX Boot Camp – New book by VMware Press
The holy grail of VMware certifications – VCDX. Who would not want to became VCDX? But not everyone can, because the knowledge and experience you need before trying to pass this ultimate VMware certification exam is just too demanding and only few hundreds people worldwide are actually VCDX certified. Before pretending for a VCDX, the […]
ESXi Maintenance Mode Via CLI How-to And Some More Commands
A short post to bookmark some CLI commands for putting a VMware ESXi host into a maintenance mode. In my lab, I’m running vCenter in a VM, and this VM runs out of a small local datastore. So I can’t simply vMotion this VM elsewhere to do a maintenance and patch using VMware Update Manager (VUM). When […]
WordPress Performance Test – Track your plugins first!
There is a very useful plugin when it comes to track WordPress plugins performance and resource consumption. A P3 Performance Profiler plugin allows you to automatically test the WordPress site and show you the plugin that uses the most of the resources. Usually after installing WordPress, the clean installation needs to be enhanced to fit your needs. The plugins […]
VMware View Pool Manager – Free Tool
In case you missed this one, there is new free tool for administrators doing a lot of work with VMware View. The tool is called VMware View Pool manager and it is a free tool (Fling) which is available at the VMware Labs website. The tool was created by Andre Leibovici, and can be used for […]
VMware SSO Install – Single Sign On Server Installation Options
VMware SSO install, when done wrong or when architected the wrong way, can put your infrastructure into a fragile state where SSO can became the single point of failure (SPOF). Before introduction of SSO in vSphere 5.1, there was a vCenter considerations when it comes to resiliency and protection. With the introduction SSO it’s like an additional […]
Veeam Backup and Replication v7 – Virtual Labs for Replicas
Virtual Labs for replicas is another new feature that has been announced by Veeam. Virtual labs which brought the revolutionary feature that has been around since version 5 of Veeam Backup and replication, has brought this possibility to mount and run VM directly from backup location. Veeam Backup and Replication v7 enhances this function for […]
Install vCenter on Windows Server 2012 – ODBC and vCenter components install (Part 2)
In the first part we successfully installed SQL Server, and created vCenter, VMware update manager and SSO databases. In this part we will create the DSNs and Install vCenter on Windows Server 2012, together with all the different components. This post is a part of multipost, where we do an Install vCenter Server on Windows Server 2012, with […]
Install vCenter Server on Windows Server 2012 – SQL Setup (Part 1)
Since vSphere 5.1 U1 it’s possible to install vCenter Server on Windows Server 2012. Also a Microsoft SQL 2012 is supported as an external database. The software requirements of the latest vSphere has been outlined in my post which discuss the new features of VMware vSphere 5.1 Update 1. Since the vSphere 5.1, the architecture of […]
Mobile version of vSphere 5.1 Hardening Guide Available
There is an update on the vSphere 5.1 Hardening guide. As you know, this guide is very good tool to start to harden your infrastructure running vSphere 5.1. There is a newly available Mobile version of vSphere 5.1 Hardening Guide. It’s been published through the VMware Mobile Knowledge Portal (VMKP). The VMKP app provides access to […]
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