I recently connected to a vSphere 5.1 environment using an old Windows Fusion VM. I was attempting to check the hardware status and I noticed…
BUG ALERT: UCS FNIC Driver 1.5.0.8 + ESXi 5.x = PSODs
If you are running UCS hardware with ESXi then you should be using custom ENIC/FNIC drivers as specified on the Hardware and Software Interoperability Matrix.…
Likewise / PowerBroker: DNS_ERROR_BAD_PACKET
If you use PowerBroker, formerly known as Likewise, then you may have experienced the following error message when performing the domainjoin-cli command: DNS_ERROR_BAD_PACKET. If you…
OVF Tool: Special Characters in URL Locators
This might be common knowledge, but it tripped me up recently so thought I would write a quick post on it. OVF Tool allows you…
Rescan All Hangs ESXi
I ran into a interesting problem the other day. I was brought into an environment that had a pair of ESXi 5.1 hosts connected to…
Automating VCSA Configuration
If you have deployed the VCSA a couple of dozen times like me then you quickly realize that it is necessary to script the initial…
Standardizing ESXi Configurations
Maish over at Technodrone posted a great article yesterday titled: Host Profiles Should Become a Standard Feature. In the article he states: Having your hosts…
Review: VMware Horizon Mail
As I mentioned last week, VMware released an officially supported mail client (for Zimbra). About two years ago VMware released a fling called Zimbra for…
Overlapping Static Routes
Do you have to connect to a VPN in order to work? Do you need to connect to more than one VPN to work? Have…
vWYNTK: BOSH Part 1 – Introduction
As many of you know, I have worked very closely with the Cloud Foundry team since the beginning. Recently, I decided to deploy a Cloud…