Sysadmin Stories

Short stories on virtualization, clouds and other technologies based on personal experiences and opinions.

Monday, July 1, 2013

TCP ports "greater than 65535"

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Let me tell this nice story. And yes, there are no TCP ports above 65535, but earlier today after receiving the credentials, I connected wi...
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Thursday, June 20, 2013

Command line upgrade of ESXi 5.1 to 5.1 U1

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The reason I`ve chosen this method is not having VUM installed and also wanting to remember a bit of esxcli. The process is pretty simple: ...
Saturday, June 15, 2013

vCloud Director 5.1 upgrade and missing sysadmin permissions

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I`ve recently managed to crash my test lab. One of the rebuild tasks was to reinstall vCloud Director - the hard way: dropping the DB and r...
Wednesday, June 12, 2013

Command line installation of vSphere Auto Deploy

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After a long absence, partially motivated by changing my job while organizing a VMUG meeting, I`ve found a bit of time to restart working a...
Thursday, March 28, 2013

VMware Distributed Power Management (DPM)

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One of the features Enterprise license brings to VMware vSphere is Distributed Power Management (DPM). This feature saves power by dynamic...
Wednesday, March 20, 2013

PowerCLI - Batch move templates

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While preparing for configuring DPM on one of the clusters, I noticed that templates are scattered around all the hosts. A design best prac...
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Wednesday, March 13, 2013

vShield Edge configuration and operational issues

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In this post I will cover some of the aspects of using vShield Edge (vSE) devices at vApp level, mostly things I have learnt the hard way. ...
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