There is a free utility called ESXi MAC learning dvFilter released by VMware Labs last week. This utility is provided as a VIB and installs on the physical ESXi host, not on the virtual ESXi hosts. I learned about it by reading posts from William Lam and Andreas Peetz. ESXi Mac Learning dvFilter is kind of […]
Backup and Restore ESXi Configuration with PowerCLI
In some situations you might need to backup or restore configuration of your ESXi host. This can be done with several tools with GUI front end or you can use tools diretly built-in ESXi and vSphere. And that’s what we will explore today. There might be a situation where the only choice is what you already have […]
3 Ways to Open Command Prompt With Admin Privileges in Windows 8.x
I just wanted to give a quick heads up to admins using Windows 8 or planning to migrate users to W 8.x and then assist them as a support help. Things changes and the old days of Windows XP are gone…. Oh well. Let’s move on. Before, there was a simple way in Windows 7 […]
How-to Disable User Account Control (UAC) in Windows – Three Ways To Do It
UAC aka User Account Control has been here since Vista and it’s been hated by the end users and admins all over. It’s one of the first things that users asking to deactivate when setting up a desktop for someone or in VDI deployments when optimizing the master image. User account control = pain. So […]
How-to install vSphere Client on Domain Controller or Use a Workaround
By default it’s just not possible. The installation of the vSphere Client fails with a message saying the as a requirements the management station has to be running XP SP2 and not a domain controler. There might be a situations where in some very small shops you find a single ESXi box with a single […]
ESXi Unresponsive VM – How to Power Off
Sometimes your VM gets stuck and you have no possibility to do graceful shutdown or power off through the vSphere client. Saying it differently, the VM is stuck and the only way is to reboot the whole ESXi host, which you certainly don’t want to do. But the unresponsive VM running there can be “killed” […]
How-to Flash Dell Perc H310 with IT Firmware To Change Queue Depth from 25 to 600
Now, at first. This it totally unsupported by VMware or Dell, even if the firmware I’m flashing the card with is from Dell’s website. To tell you the whole story you should read My VSAN Journey and understand how the setup in my lab is built and why I’m doing this. I’m basically trying to […]
VMware ESXi S.M.A.R.T Health Monitoring
With Flash storage around gaining popularity, it might be interesting to see not only if the performance is what’s should be but also the health of disks whether the’re magnetic or Flash drives. I was looking on checking somehow the S.M.A.R.T values. There are two ways to check it on VMware ESXi, and it can be […]
How to Add Padding and Border to Images in WordPress
Since the release of WordPress 3.9 the advanced options for images are gone. It’s no longer possible to use the previous options which allowed to put margins and padding, or image border. In the old version you click on an image, click advanced settings and here you go, you can edit image properties – border, vertical space, […]
How-to check Queue Depth Of Storage Adapter or Storage Device
My VSAN lab uses Dell h310 with queue depth 25. A low VM count with low contention should be fine. I know, but they were on VMware HCL and they were cheap on eBay. While the adapters work out of the box, they had an issue – deactivating one memory channel, which I solved. Recently I found […]
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