Something you can do to keep the CLI entertaining is to customize it to your liking. Sometimes, the default shell style can just be cumbersome to look at. If you want to change the appearance, it’s actually really easy! No Read more…
After running ESXi 6.5 for a while, I decided to downgrade my environment to ESXi 6.0 The only problem with this was that my VMs were all hardware version 13 for 6.5 and so they wouldn’t run on my Read more…
From their GitHub Page: As the name suggests Heimdall Application Dashboard is a dashboard for all your web applications. It doesn’t need to be limited to applications though, you can add links to anything you like. Heimdall is an Read more…
It’s that time again! Dell has released another version of their OpenManage Server administrator. They officially support vSphere versions 6.0 and 6.5 with this version on 11th, 12th, 13th, and 14th-generation poweredge servers. Here is how to download/install OMSA Read more…
What happened? It came as a surprise to me that a few of my production vSphere and vCenter environments all started exhibiting issues with the vSphere web client. I tried on every browser, both Windows and Mac, but kept getting Read more…
VMware PVSCSI Driver in Windows Server (2016) Have you ever seen this error when trying to install Windows to a VM? It’s probably because the Paravirtual SCSI driver is not loaded. Windows doesn’t contain this driver, so it’s necessary to Read more…
Enabling the disk performance counters on the newer Windows Server operating systems can be easily forgotten about, but it can provide some really good info in the task manager which I find myself missing on servers that do not have Read more…
Here’s to all the articles I’ve implicitly stated “enable SSH access” or “SSH should be enabled” but offered no further assistance for those who wanted to know how to do that. Now I can link to this post! xD Enabling Read more…
Does your Synology NFS datastore look like this? Is Hardware Acceleration “not supported”? Well, you’re lucky because this is a quick and vendor-supported fix. By enabling the VAAI plugin, you will see much better performance and also gain access to Read more…
Usually I find that I’ll need to convert a Hyper-V VM to VMWare ESXi, but in this rare scenario, I had to convert ESXi 6.5 Virtual Machines into Hyper-V (2012 R2) virtual machines. This is trivial if you have a Read more…