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Installing VMware ESXi 5.1
My Notes I’ve had to install ESXi 5.1 for one of our clients. I’m sure everyone has installed ESXi and it’s really easy. Thought I’d post for newbies out there who are still fresh and starting out in...
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ESXi 5.1 Best Practices
My Notes I’ve copied and pasted the following from one of the pub documentation from VMware. It’s something I’ve stumbled across and thought I’d share this to everyone – ENJOY!...
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Poor Performance & High Disk Latency
Usually the issue with poorly performed VMs that do not have enough IOPS and IOPS available is less than 30. Best practice per VM you need is: Good IOPS = 30 IOPS per VM Disk RPM / IOPS available 7,200...
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vSphere 5 Troubleshoot & Enhance Performance
I’ve compiled a list of things together from VMware Documentation however the suggestions in this section are not meant to be a comprehensive guide to diagnosing and troubleshooting problems in the...
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Troubleshooting ESXi 5 VM Performance Issues
I’ve come across with multiple VM issues regarding CPU – and I’ve found and read on how to troubleshoot a performance problem within the guest VM. Here is the link -...
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VMware Multipathing Configuration for iSCSI Port Binding
For those who want to learn how to iSCSI port bind (multipathing) in VMware 4 to 5, and also to verify the configuration, I’ve found a good guide:...
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Virtual Machine Assigned NIC
If you ever want to know which NIC is assigned to which VM in ESXi, you will need to run the esxtop command. I wont go into details, but here is the link....
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Disk Benchmark Software
Hi Techies I’ve come across a pretty cool site where it tells you what disk benchmark software to measure disk performance and IOPS. Whether you have an old disk of ATA or new disk SSD, you can measure...
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How to install HP Branded SBS2011 on HyperV
Just to sum this up quickly, you will need to do the following on the HyperV box. 1. Insert HP SBS 2011 DVD 2. Goto D:\Sources\$oem$\$$\System32 3. Run as Administrator HPActive.cmd 4. Finished You now...
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vSphere ESXi 5.5 SSO Permission Issue
If you have installed ESXi 5.5 and you’re not able to login using your domain account and able to login using the administrator@vsphere.local account then see below fix: 1. Login to Web Client as...
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Vmware ESXi 5.1 descriptor file is missing
If your environment recently had an outage (or shutdown unexpectedly or ungracefully), or had snapshots for whatever reason (eg. testing, and making alot of changes), then there’s a small chance that...
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Convert Physical Servers to HyperV VM
Hi Guys Previously to convert a physical server, you need to use a 3rd party software, however quite recently I found there’s a free product out there that can convert any physical servers to hyperv!...
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Combine VMware Licenses into One
Hey All If you had multiple ESXi licenses and not able to use it within vCenter, because your host has 2 or more CPUs – to get it working all you need to do is to combine your licenses into one...
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Default Printer Not Retaining?
Wonder everytime you set your printer to default and its not retaining on log on and restart? You will need to remove a registry entry to fix this problem. Load REGEDIT Goto the following:...
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Check Public Folders Permissions
Here is the code to check what permissions the public folders have: Get-PublicFolder -Recurse | Get-PublicFolderClientPermission | Select Identity, User, AccessRights
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Migrate DHCP Server with Powershell
You can only migrate DHCP using powershell on Server 2012 R2 and above, anything below will require manual process without causing too much issues during the migration. Here is the command. Export DHCP...
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When you remove a printer, the printer keeps returning, then it needs to be removed off the registry. HKLM\Software\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Print\Providers GO through and delete...
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Connect to Exchange Online PowerShell $Cred = Get-Credential Connect-MSOLService -Credential $Cred $Session = New-PSSession -ConfigurationName Microsoft.Exchange -ConnectionUri...
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