Today we’ll show a built-in tool which can inform you about any VMs that runs on snapshots within your VMware vSphere environment. The built-in tool is simply vCenter Alarms. I know that there are many third-party tools that can inform you about snapshots. One of them is for example Snapwatcher which I reviewed a way […]
How to configure RDP for your VM in Ravello Cloud
If you haven’t read my series about Ravello, you should start here – How to create a simple VM in Ravello? Ravello allows not only build an environment from scratch, but you can also upload your own VMs to Ravello so you don’t have to create everything (by using a VM Import Tool). Today we’ll show […]
VMware ESXi Command List – Maintenance
Today another post of the series ESXi Command List. The title says it all. We’ll have a look at different options to reboot ESXi from a command line and we’ll talk a bit about maintenance mode. You should always put hosts into maintenance mode when you do reboots, firmware updates, apply ESXi updates (most patches require the […]
Top 10 Shortcuts for Windows Server 2016
Some of the shortcuts works for Windows Server 2012 and probably 2008 as well (*.msc was around since 2003?), but as we’re heading towards the release of Windows Server 2016 I’m trying to kind of be ahead of time. The post is based on a latest TP5 release of Windows Server 2016. The shortcuts listed below […]
How-to Import Windows 10 ADMX into Windows Server 2012 R2 Domain
Windows 10 brought new options for managing endpoints. As the latest version of Windows Server is version 2012 R2 for now, we need a workaround the time new Windows Server 2016 will come up. The pack containing Windows 10 ADMX templates allows to control which features and functions are activated on Windows 10 computers. For […]
How to Disable Windows 10 Upgrade For All Versions of Windows
How to disable Windows 10 upgrade for all versions (including Windows Home)? As you know, Microsoft is pushing for Windows 10 upgrades with notification windows, pop-ups or other messages announcing the deadline (29th of July) after which it will no longer be possible. (Only via paid option). This is however quite annoying for users willing […]
How-To Install and Configure CoreOS OVA Image on ESXi
CoreOS is a lightweight Linux distro destined for running Containers. Docker is installed on each CoreOS machine. You should construct a container for each of your services (web server, caching, database) start them with a fleet and connect them together by reading and writing to etcd. CoreOS doesn’t ship a package manager — any software you would like […]
How To Install VMware VCSA 6 in VMware Workstation
You could have read my detailed post How-to Install VMware VCSA 6.0 on ESXi hypervisor already. Today we’ll show you how from the installation ISO you deploy VCSA by using VMware Workstation or Player. This is not supported by VMware, but it might be useful for home lab testing or “vSphere-in-a-box” demos. I have a […]
ESXi Commands List – Storage
Learning CLI commands might not be fun for someone, but let’s try to add another post today. You could already learn about how-to monitor snapshot deletion from the CLI in our previous post – ESXi Commands List – Snapshot Deletion Monitoring – or get hand on some ESXi CLI Networking commands. ESXi Commands List – Storage, is today’s post. […]
ESXi Commands List – Snapshot Deletion Monitoring
Deleting a snapshot can sometimes go wrong. Through vSphere client you can’t see any progress and it’s impossible to visualize the status of snapshot deletion. Today’s post, ESXi Commands List – Snapshot Deletion Monitoring, will show some ESXi CLI commands which should help. Snapshots are something which has been around since the beginning of virtualization. While […]
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