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Reconfigure diagnostic partition using Get-EsxCli -V2
The following powershell snippet is going to unconfigure the diagnostic coredump partition using...
Configuring Tesla M60 cards for NVIDIA GRID vGPU
There are a couple of steps which need to be taken to configure the Tesla M60 cards...
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From IOmeter to VMware I/O Analyzer fling
VMware I/O Analyzer is a tool to launch orchestrated tests against a storage solution available from the VMware flings website. It can be used as a single appliance where the worker process and the analytics is done within. Additional appliances can be deployed to act...
VMware SRM 5.8.1 Embedded Database refuses to uninstall
VMware SRM 5.8.1 Embedded Database refuses to uninstall. Clicking uninstall in 'Control Panel - Programs and Features' showed a progress bar going forward and then rolling back. Afterwards 'Control Panel - Programs and Features' showed that the embedded PostgreSQL was...
UCS Manager errors due to Firmware Packages removal
UCS Manager is showing 309 errors because a Firmware Packages have been deleted but the references in the Host Firmware Packages (HFP) still exist. Appears that all of the errors show a cause of ‘image-deleted’. In the ‘Affected object’ the path where the error is...
Failed to clear bootbank content /altbootbank: [Errno 9] Bad file descriptor: ‘/altbootbank/state.xxxxxxx’
In a VSAN project the VMware Compatibility Guide mentioned a different driver version for the raid controller than the one that was installed. So I tried to install a driver update for the raid controller through the CLI. This did not work out as...
Usefull vi commands
I prefer to work with vi to modify config files. I used to forget the commands to interact with vi all the time so I decided to write them down. These are the ones I mostly use: i insert r replace 9yl copy nine characters from cursor position, e.g 192.168.1.0 à...
PowerShell goodies
Powershell goodies Anyone knowing a bit of Linux has come across tail. For those who don't know tail, it is a tool that will monitor text files, eg log files, for changes and display the newly added content in the terminal window. This comes in handy when...
List registered SPNs in Active Directory: pimped
List all registered SPNs in Active Directory: pimped This will go and poll all your registered SPNs in Active Directory and write them to a file. It accepts Debug, Log_Dir and Log_FileName as parameters....
Powershell Test AlwaysOn
Powershell Test AlwaysOn This script checks which node is the primary in the SQL AlwaysOn cluster. A test database has been added to see if that database is writable. All actions are logged to a log file. This script is not to be run in a production environment. The...
Reconfigure diagnostic partition
Reconfigure diagnostic partition with PowerCLI using Get-EsxCli The following Get-EsxCli command will unconfigure your diagnostic partition and reconfigure with smart selection. This was needed because the install partition uuid had changed due to an option in the...