vSphere Enterprise licensing Plus Throw Back Thursday [2017 Update]!
So the last time I posted about vSphere Enterprise licensing was in 2010! At the time, Enterprise licenses were not available for net new purchasing. You could however…
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Those are some BIG log files you have there buddy!
Sometimes a well run, stable production environment that runs and runs and runs is hiding some hidden dangers from you. My client was recently doing some housekeeping on…
PSA: Powershell script to find unpatched machines. (WannaCry)
I’m not a programmer but PowerShell is really starting to grow on me lately. Here is a quick script that will see if your servers are properly patched…
Pushing the NVIDIA Grid VIB to vSphere using Update Manager for vGPUs.
I’ve been working with a customer getting the NVIDIA Tesla M60 cards working in their environment and compiled some great information for those of you looking into this.…
VMware HA Heartbeat issue.
This is a pretty standard one. You deploy a small environment that only has a single shared Datastore (like a Nutanix cluster maybe). Enable HA and all of…
Stuck in Maintenance mode after 5.5 ESXi upgrade
I received a call from a client asking for help removing maintenance mode from an ESXi host. The 5.5 host was put into maintenance mode, had some patches…
Upgrading VMware Site Recovery Manager from 5.8 to 6.1.1
So the Summer is over, school is back, Fall is here, iOS10 has been released and everyone is itching to upgrade stuff. It’s what you do before the…
New IPM utility Net2SwapFlag — solves infamous KB2536487 issue
Here is a great new utility written by my colleague Jacques Bensimon. Microsoft Knowledge Base article KB2536487, entitled Applications may crash or become unresponsive if another user logs…
Link Collection–Antivirus guides for Citrix & Terminal Servers
Some times you have a good bit of information to write about in a blog post, other times you just have a bunch of links. ;) Today is…