Lab Deploy VCSA with Embedded Platform Services Controller
In building my most recent VMware lab inside of VMware workstation, I wanted to deploy the VCSA 6.0 with Embedded Platform Services Controller and step you guys through the process…
Month: April 2015
Lightweight DNS Server for VMware Lab
For those of you who are building and working with your own VMware labs and using either physical home lab hardware or maybe using VMware workstation to setup your nested…
FreeNAS Change IP Address on iSCSI target VMware ESXi 6
FreeNAS is one of the easiest and coolest virtual SAN appliances out there for use with VMware and other Hypervisor labs. Â If you have FreeNAS already setup and running with…
VMTurbo Free Virtual Environment Monitoring and Operations Management
Many may be looking for free virtual environment monitoring and operations management. Â There is a great solution out there in VMTurbo which is a free signup and download. Â It provides…
Installing MS15-034 Reboot Required
With the recent security alert concerning the “bluescreen of death” bug in Windows IIS servers from II7 and higher being affected, many are scrambling to hit maintenance windows to install…
How to update an ESXi 6.0 host from commandline
The process of updating an ESXi 6.0 host from commandline is a very painless operation.  Especially if you have a standalone host and don’t have access to VUM for updates, this procedure…
Upgrade VMware PowerCLI 5.8 to 6.0
If you are into automating tasks in your VMware environment, there is no better way to do those tasks than with Powershell and the PowerCLI commandlets. Â With the release now…
Setup RDP Two Factor Authentication with Duo Security
Remote desktop servers that are sitting out in DMZ’s or just forward facing RDP enabled servers are security risks at best since they are configured to answer to remote desktop…
OLE DB provider SQLNCLI11 for linked server unable to begin distributed transaction
Today in working with a new virtual machine that was spun up with Windows Server 2012 R2 and SQL Server 2014, I was asked to troubleshoot an issue where distributed…
Good VMware Home Lab Switch
Recently, I was looking to snag a really good VMware home lab switch for a couple of hosts and shared storage to replace an aging run of the mill HP switch…