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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Syntax to block an IP address under Linux using IP tables: [crayon-5af51f11924b5645766815/] 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…