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VMware
VMware ESXi Commandline Get CPU and Memory Information
There are times with your virtual infrastructure running on top of VMware vSphere that you need to gather information about the physical servers you are running on. Have you ever wanted to know the details about CPU, memory, or other…
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Windows Containers
Installing and Configuring Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V Containers
Containers are certainly all the rage in the world of virtualization and are the next evolution in how businesses deploy and host applications and perform development. Containers offer several advantages over full blown virtual machines when it comes to efficiency,…
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vSAN
Selected host is an external witness for another vSAN Stretched cluster
As VHT readers have seen lately, I have been doing a lot of home lab work with VMware vSAN and thoroughly enjoying it. The advancements that have been made in vSAN 6.6 and patch levels have truly made vSAN a…
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VMware
Delete VMware Distributed Virtual Switch The Resource Is In Use
Recently, in working with the home lab environment, moving hosts around, playing around with various networking, etc, I ran into an issue with a distributed virtual switch (DVS) I had configured. The problem started with a host that was forcibly…
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vSphere 6.5
Upgrading VMware ESXi to 6.5 update 1 with commandline
We have looked at upgrading ESXi hosts to 6.5 update 1 using the vSphere Update Manager. Today however, we want to look at upgrading VMware ESXi to 6.5 update 1 with commandline. This can prove very useful especially if you…
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Windows Server 2016
Add iSCSI target Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V Core
Working with Windows Server 2016 Server Core is a bit more difficult than working with the GUI enabled version of Windows Server. Also, with Windows Server 2016 Microsoft has removed the ability to go back from GUI to Server Core,…
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VMware
Find storage driver version update VMware ESXi
There may be times when you need to update a storage driver in VMware ESXi if you are troubleshooting or ruling out hardware issues. Especially if you install the general ESXi install from VMware without any vendor customizations, it may…
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Windows
Set Audit Policy Powershell
Scripting mundane setup tasks is essential in today’s world of server/workstation provisioning in the fast paced Virtualization environments we as system administrators manage. If you are like me, you may have googled “set audit policy powershell” to find a quick…
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Windows Server 2016
Windows Server Technical Preview 2 No GUI
For those of you like me who jumped on the opportunity to snag a copy of the new Server Technical preview which is most likely going to be Windows Server 2016 or similar, there is a noticeable departure from previous…
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vSphere 6
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 works well for me to get the latest updates, and…
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