Release your inner geek
Once again my employeer forces me to work from an inferior platform, so what are my options to get the best possible working environment? Heres some tips to what I’ve done so far. The windows terminal is one of the better things produced by Microsoft the last couple of years. I have already written a…
Continue ReadingSometimes someone forgets to unmount the CD drive of a VM. This will interfere with operation tasks like setting a host in maintenance mode or using Update Manager. I recently had this issue, and the “update manager compliance check” told me that several VM’s where connected to a CD drive, which may interrupt the update…
Continue ReadingMicrosoft is finally shipping Windows with SSH. On my Windows 10 machine, it’s OpenSSH: PS C:\Users\Kasper> ssh -VOpenSSH_for_Windows_7.7p1, LibreSSL 2.6.5 Somehow they missed to get the ssh-copy-id tool implemented, so we need to find another way of copying our ssh keys. Thankfully it’s not that complicated, we can use powershell (probably even cmd) cat .\.ssh\id_rsa.pub…
Continue ReadingSome customer called saying that they couldn’t log in to a certain Windows box. vMware told me the VM was using 100% CPU, and it was to busy doing something to let users log in. Powershell saved the day (or at least saved the VM from beeing reset) To find the process running wild I…
Continue ReadingSometimes you need to test the network connection for a range of IP addresses. Normally I would use ping from a commandline, but it could be a hugh task to test more than 20-30 addresses. Utilizing a bit of powershell and the test-connection command will help us overcome the task in an easy way: The…
Continue ReadingGet a nice clean table with VMHost names and WWN addresses: Get-Cluster clustername | Get-VMhost | Get-VMHostHBA -Type FibreChannel | Select VMHost,Device,@{N=”WWN”;E={“{0:X}” -f $_.PortWorldWideName}} | Sort VMhost,Device
Continue ReadingHi all. Today i had to reinstall some ESXi 5.5 hosts as we were upgrading to SSD disks, in order to have more performance on the Citrix environment we are hosting. Before i powered off the server, i saved the configuration to use for easy reconfiguration with the following command from powercli: Get-VMHostFirmware -VMHost xxx-hostname-xxx -BackupConfiguration…
Continue ReadingIf you are used to using Vim or Vi as your editor, you might miss it when using powershell. Good news is, theres a way to get it. Download and install Vim for windows, create a profile.ps1 file in this path: (for me at least) c:\users\%username%\documents\WindowsPowerShell\ and type in the following: $VIMPATH = “C:\Program Files…
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