The first time I ever touched this amazing (and cheap) network technology called Infiniband, it was a while ago when setting up a back-end storage network (without an IB switch) between two hosts. You could probably see the exploit in my article here – Homelab Storage Network Speedup with …. Infiniband, together with a short video. The HCAs […]
How-to rename VMNIC in VMware ESXi
The problem of assigning different name to your VMNIC is not new. Several sources reported NIC enumeration that occurs after applying a BIOS update, resulting a connectivity loss. But there is a way to fix it even if rename VMNIC in VMware ESXi through the UI isn’t possible. In my case it was simple a cosmetic […]
How to publish RDS application in Horizon View 6
Horizon 6 announced few days back brought a clearly new wind into the desktop virtualization space. Where in the past the VDI was often subject of performance and cost, see ROI. We might see this changing, is the 2014 finally the year of the VDI? Yesterday’s post showed How to add RDS functionality to Horizon View […]
How to reset ESXi 6.x root password and under which conditions
I had this question recently through an e-mail and was sure that I already wrote about it. After some research, I figured out that a blog post would clear my doubts. VMware says that it’s not possible to reset ESXi password on ESXi 6.x (and 5.x) systems. However, under certain circumstances, there is a possibility […]
Elevated Command Prompt in Windows 8.x
One of the annoyances of W8.x OS (there are others too) is the fact that pressing WIN (Windows) + R and then typing cmd gives you command prompt window, but without elevated privileges. This is quite annoying because even with being member of the local administrator group you get restricted on that – you need Elevated Command […]
Easily upgrade ESXi 5.x to the latest ESXi 6.0 via CLI
I have received quite a few demands for how to update standalone ESXi hosts via the command line. For most people it’s probably no brainer, but for new folks this might not be so obvious. So for those of you who are looking to update ESXi 5.x to the latest release which is the ESXi […]
How-to unlock the VMware VCSA root password?
Update: Check the latest post where I teach you How to reset root password in vCenter Server Appliance 6.5, and, there is also a video in this post. VCSA has a default 90 days root password policy. You can change this behavior or you can manage the password policy through AD if VCSA is integrated with […]
ESXi 5.x – Managing and troubleshooting NAS/NFS datastores via CLI
One of the topics to master for VCAP-DCA exam (but not only) is to handle some CLI commands which enables NFS management. Those commands can list existing connected NFS storage, Add new storage or delete NAS file system. Those commands are also useful when you troubleshoot your NFS storage or when your NFS server has […]
ESXi 5.x – How-to enable SSH pre-login message banner
As a VMware admin you might be interested in this function. A message that could be used as a warning or informative purposes in your organization when someone tries to log into an ESXi host. When you SSH to ESXi host (in case the admin has enabled SSH) there is no message to the operator by […]
IIS and PHP Setup – The Easy Way On Windows Server 2012 With Web Platform Installer
There is many ways to do an IIS and PHP Setup on Windows machine. It was much more complicated before, as now with Microsoft Platform Installer things got much easier. I wanted to share my experience with that. But before we’ll start the few steps process, lets see which different possibilities exists to install a WAMP […]
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