Earlier this year I wrote an article comparing three major cloud hosting providers. I ended up concluding that one of the three had the best offering and that was Vultr. You’ll probably see banners for Vultr around my site; that’s my referral link. I still highly recommend them. On a Read more…
If you have an office, facility, or residence with a lot of guest traffic and are needing to provide the guests with their own network using your existing Meraki equipment, this is the best way to do it. For this example the environment is using the following devices: Cisco Meraki Read more…
Hi. It’s me. You are trying to upgrade a server but there are people logged in. You want to tell them all that you’ll be doing work, so you need to send a message… It’s easy, but you’ll write it down anyways. Open CMD.. Type msg * Read more…
Today I’m working on a PowerEdge R430 which has been in it’s box way too long. There were some firmware updates, etc. but also no OS or anything. I took to installing Dell’s customized ESXi 6.0 U2 With the dell servers, they have a great offering of VIBs to help Read more…
My computer is on a domain. I wanted to enable RDP access so I could work remotely, however in doing that, I’m letting my colleagues and others in my organization log in to my PC, as well as potentially allowing an intruder to log in. There are options to disallow Read more…
My Dell PowerEdge R220 wasn’t showing me any stats about my server components inside vSphere, even with the Dell Customized ESXi 6.5 ISO. So I took to installing the OpenManage 8.4 VIB, similar to my 8.4 install on 5.5 First, I’m noting that there isn’t a release of the VIB for Read more…
This might seem like a no-brainer… I guess the UI is just a bit misleading, I don’t know. I wanted to erase my freenas disks, but I guess “detach volume” didn’t sound convincing enough? Anyways, this is new for me because usually I’m worried about losing my data and avoid Read more…
This week I was converting a bare-metal windows server into an ESXi host while preserving the original OS. I ran into some trouble because I saved the VMs to a UNC share instead of cloning it directly to a vSphere server. I copied the VMX and VMDK files output from VMWare converter Read more…
When you migrate a user from a workgroup/local environment to an Active Directory domain, the user experience is always an immediate shock. This is because the user will normally lose all their settings and files under the new account. Of course, fearless IT people will be able to get everything Read more…
I am provisioning a PowerEdge T320 which is running VMware vSphere 5.5 We have been recently deploying cloud or hyper-v based infrastructure. With that said, our ESXi docs were somewhat dated. I have in my repository Dell OpenManage 7.4 VIBs OM-SrvAdmin-Dell-Web-7.4.0-876.VIB-ESX55i_A00.zip As of 2017 you can get Dell OpenManage 8.4 Read more…