This past week, I had a failed port one one of my C2100’s. The specific part was a Intel PRO/1000 VT Quad Port Gigabit PCI-E Ethernet Network Adapter (HM9JY). Now just one single port failed and I was using all 4 ports for iSCSI from my FreeNAS C2100 to my esxi cluster. Luckily I have…
vCheck is a PowerShell HTML framework script that started with one guy, but is now a community driven and from what I have seen, it’s pretty neat. vCheck can be configured to just run once, or as a scheduled task on a Windows box. It also offers the option of sending the report via email.…
Powershell & PowerCLI Prep #Set Execution Policy Set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned #Ignore SSL Certificates warnings Set-PowerCLIConfiguration -InvalidCertificateAction Ignore -WarningAction SilentlyContinue #Connecting to server & save creds: Connect-VIServer vCenter.DOMAIN.com -User DOMAIN\Administrator -Password -SaveCredentials #Location to open up PowerCLI normally: . “C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\Infrastructure\vSphere PowerCLI\Scripts\Initialize-PowerCLIEnvironment.ps1” CMDLET function Load-PowerCLI { Add-PSSnapin VMware.VimAutomation.Core -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue Add-PSSnapin VMware.VumAutomation -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue Add-PSSnapin VMware.DeployAutomation…
Set a Static IP on your ESXi Host V5.5 Assigning a static IP to your ESXi host is extremely easy to do, and is highly recommended as you will always want your host to have the same IP. Notes: If your network is set up without DHCP, then you will have to do this from…
The Installation and Basic Configuration of VMware ESXi 5.5.0 on Dell C2100 FS12-TY Server Specs: Dell PowerEdge C2100 FS12-TY 2 x 2.13GHz Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5506 6 x 4GB RAM – Total 24GB’s of RAM RAID Controller – SAS 6iR 4 x 250GB WD RE 4 HDD’s I have already set up my RAID Array as…
Would you like to be able to have a Datastore full of all your .iso’s and other bootable files? Well we can accomplish that by setting up an NFS Share in Windows! First off we are going to need to set up an NFS Share on your Windows Server. To do this you need to…