Hey All! I just heard some exciting news. There is going to be a Free VCAP5-DCA Mock Exam at VMWorld. Pretty sweet huh? It gets better! THERE ARE PRIZES INVOLVED! Yeah, I know. Now I have your attention. But vNoob Read more…
So with the big event right around the corner, everyone is getting their shit together, and making sure all their ducks are in a row. For me this was finally getting my schedule ready so I am not running around Read more…
So for some reason or another, within the last day, my powershell profile has vanished. Fortunately for me, I DIDN’T HAVE MY PROFILE BACKED UP. Son of a ^&%(*&^. After some much needed cursing, there was really nothing to do Read more…
Lately I have been trying to determine which of my VMs have oversized, or allocated more resources than they need. I know that there are programs, plugins etc which do this, however I wanted to take a shot a just Read more…
VDR is a great backup appliance for the SMB. It’s free, which is always a great price point, however it isn’t as reliable as some of the “big boy” solutions that exist out there. I recently had an issue with Read more…
Recently I have had some issues with HardDisks needing to be consolidated on VMs. I believe this is mostly due to VDR sometimes not handling snapshots the way it should, but I am sure there are other common ways it happens as Read more…
So along the lines of my last post, I decided I should also make another quick post about NTP on the Host side. Check out my last post Here in case you missed it! In order to look at the host Read more…
One thing that can cause a lot of headaches for a VM and an infrastructure in general is incorrect NTP configuration. Fortunately for a VM, there is mainly one setting for NTP outside of guest OS…Whether you want to get Read more…
So we have all been there, or atleast most everyone who has a SMB customer has been there. They have a shared network drive where all of their employees can access their files. However instead of having the folder permissions Read more…
As a sysadmin, or more specifically in my current position as a sysadmin, I have always felt that I am constantly needing to manipulate the local admins group on different servers. Maybe a dev broke something in dev/test and they Read more…