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October 2017

Virtualization

How to fix Shockwave Flash crashing with vSphere Web Client 6.X

What happened? It came as a surprise to me that a few of my production vSphere and vCenter environments all started exhibiting issues with the vSphere web client. I tried on every browser, both Windows and Mac, but kept getting this message: Accompanied by a friendly reminder that the page Read more…

By Tyler Woods, 3 years3 years ago
Virtualization

How to use VMWare PVSCSI driver in Windows Virtual Machine

VMware PVSCSI Driver in Windows Server (2016) Have you ever seen this error when trying to install Windows to a VM? It’s probably because the Paravirtual SCSI driver is not loaded. Windows doesn’t contain this driver, so it’s necessary to insert and install it at boot of the ISO. In Read more…

By Tyler Woods, 3 years4 years ago
File Services

Enabling Disk Performance Counters in Windows Server 2016 Task Manager

Enabling the disk performance counters on the newer Windows Server operating systems can be easily forgotten about, but it can provide some really good info in the task manager which I find myself missing on servers that do not have this enabled. It’s really just one command. In an elevated Read more…

By Tyler Woods, 3 years3 years ago
VMWare ESXi

How to enable SSH access to your ESXi server

Here’s to all the articles I’ve implicitly stated “enable SSH access” or “SSH should be enabled” but offered no further assistance for those who wanted to know how to do that. Now I can link to this post! xD Enabling SSH access to your ESXi server can be done in Read more…

By Tyler Woods, 4 years ago
Storage

How to install Synology NFS VAAI VIB on vSphere ESXi

Does your Synology NFS datastore look like this? Is Hardware Acceleration “not supported”? Well, you’re lucky because this is a quick and vendor-supported fix. By enabling the VAAI plugin, you will see much better performance and also gain access to the full set of VMWare features:  Synology supports VAAI primitives Read more…

By Tyler Woods, 4 years4 years ago
Hyper-V

The Best Way to Convert VMware ESXi 6.5 VM to Hyper-V Virtual Machine (2017)

Usually I find that I’ll need to convert a Hyper-V VM to VMWare ESXi, but in this rare scenario, I had to convert ESXi 6.5 Virtual Machines into Hyper-V (2012 R2) virtual machines. This is trivial if you have a supported environment: you simply use Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter [MVMC Read more…

By Tyler Woods, 4 years4 years ago
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How to delete all files in a directory with RoboCopy

You know that dreaded “calculating time remaining” window, wherein you are trying to delete all the files in a folder and the operating system is simply wasting time trying to count the files within as well as estimate the time required to delete it all? I know it all too Read more…

By Tyler Woods, 4 years4 years ago
Bare Metal

How to create a Bootable ISO image of macOS 10.13 High Sierra installer

Normally you can’t obtain bootable media of macOS. OS X was a different story, but also you had to pay for those versions. As an owner of a MacBook Pro, it’s slightly unsettling that I wouldn’t necessarily be able to plug in a bootable USB or insert a DVD with Read more…

By Tyler Woods, 4 years3 years ago
Linux Server

Block IP from accessing your Linux Server using IP tables

Syntax to block an IP address under Linux using IP tables:

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iptables -A INPUT -s 123.45.67.89 -j DROP

Replace 123.45.67.89 with the IP in which you would like blocked. For example, if you wish to block IP address 123.45.67.89 iptables -A INPUT -s 123.45.67.89 -j DROP If you just want to block access to one port Read more…

By Tyler Woods, 4 years4 years ago
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