almost daily tech ramblings
If you are using Horizon View and creating full clones, undoubtedly you’ve run into the issue of having the VM joining the domain but placed in the wrong OU. To get around this you either moved it yourself, have a GPO do it or some VBScript. After many searches and trial and errors, I’ve finally … Read more
i hate dealing with them….
I’m currently working on a project to move our server VM infrastructure from our old VMAX3 to a new all flash VMAX 250F SAN. So for my own sanity sake, and to save myself from one less Google search, below is what I used to sVmotion all VMs from the “old” LUN to the new LUN get-datastore … Read more
I was tasked earlier in the week to reclaim free space from VMs that have been deleted or from snapshots that have been consolidated. What I discovered was that from vSphere 5.0 to 5.5 had the ability but was disabled by default due to performance issues on the arrays during reclamation. However, reclamation can still … Read more
The last few months I’ve had some issues installing certain applications. Some applications would be looking for the msi in the Windows temp directory, in one instance, VAMT would fail with Error 1651. Well, I’ve finally resolved the issue with the following: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/17588/fix-problems-that-block-programs-from-being-installed-or-removed According to the website, the following is fixed: Corrupted registry keys on … Read more
I recently installed MacOS High Sierra (10.13) on ESXi 6.0 for a developer I work with. The steps I used were from a number of sources found on the InterWebs. First off you need a Mac to download the installer. On the Mac, go to the App Store and and download MacOS. While that is … Read more
I was recently asked to get a list of all VMs in a certain VLAN along with OS and IP address. To do that… get-vdportgroup “<name of port group>” | get-vm | get-guest | select vm, ipaddress, osfullname | ft -autosize if you happen to be on a standard switch, replace get-vdportgroup with get-virtualportgroup -name … Read more
I recently updated my Nexus 9 to the nightly build of LineageOS 14.1 October 10. The normal update went smoothly. However, after rebooting, I was greeted with “A vendor mismatch has been detected. Typiucally this means yopur vendor image is out of date. Please ensure that your vendor image matches N9F27M” According to Lineage, the … Read more
I’ve recently created an AppStack that included FireFox 52.4.1 ESR with the flash plugins and the VMware Client Integration Plugin. I first created 3 separate AppStacks, FireFox, FlashPlugins and FireFox with the VMWare Client Integration Plugin. Running all these plugins seem to run fine. It’s when I created an all in one AppStack I encountered … Read more
Check out the pricing models for VMC-AWS. This looks promising, however, I’m a little weary about the data transfer charges.
