command line
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Proxmox
Top 10 Proxmox CLI Commands for Ultimate Control in 2024
One of the great things about Proxmox VE Server is that it contains very powerful command line utilities for controlling, configuring, and managing your Proxmox server. There are many Proxmox CLI utilities you need to know for ultimate control over…
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vSAN
New vsantop vSAN Command-Line Troubleshooting Tool
Well, everyone is certainly pumped up after this year’s VMworld event with many great new announcements and features that are coming to VMware vSphere very soon. Just before VMworld however, VMware released vSphere 6.7 Update 3, including vSAN 6.7 Update…
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NSX-T
Configure NSX-T Manager Network from Command Line
Today I will be posting a quick tip that I hope may help others who have done the same thing that I did – buzz quickly through deploying an NSX-T Manager appliance without correctly setting DNS, NTP, or search order…
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Networking
How to View Network Connections in Linux with IFTOP
There are a myriad of network utilities in both the Windows and Linux world. If you are working with a Linux distribution and you are needing to view network connections being made to and from your Linux server, there is…
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home lab
Change BBU and RAID Cache Settings with Avago LSI StorCLI
We have covered the functionality before of the Avago LSI StorCLI utility and its capabilities in controlling and interacting with Avago LSI RAID controllers. Just about anything you can do from the RAID BIOS can be done from the StorCLI.…
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vSphere 6.5
Install VMware VCSA vCenter Appliance Photon OS Security Patches
As we have detailed on previous posts, VMware is committed to using Photon OS in just about all the appliances that are being deployed with various products now. The new vCenter Server appliance is a case in point to that. …
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VMware
Installing Avago LSI StorCLI VMware ESXi
In our previous post on how to update Avago SMIS provider in VMware ESXi, we discussed how to upgrade your Avago/LSI SMIS provider that allows you to interact with your Avago/LSI card with the Avago Storage Manager utility. However, may…
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Hyper-V
Add Local Storage in Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V
One of the tasks you may need to accomplish when working with a Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V host is adding local storage to the host. Â Often, VMs will be housed on a volume that is separate from the operating system…
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VMware
ESXi 6 Configure Management Network Greyed out
The other day when playing around “rather hard” with distributed switches and NSX, I broke my distributed switch implementation on one of my lab ESXi 6 hosts. Â I couldn’t ping the host, and also even worse, couldn’t get to the…
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Windows
Kill a Windows service quick tip
Just a quick tip from the trenches that I have used numerous times over the years to deal with problematic Windows services. Â Let’s take a look at the “kill a Windows service quick tip”. Â You may have a service that…
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