I woke up this morning to find a shocking email from @jtroyer…it started like this: We’re pleased to designate you as a vExpert 2011 as recognition of your contributions to the VMware, virtualization, and cloud computing communities. This is very exciting news for me, as previous recipients of this title have been…
Last week I was informed of a customer who had a Purple Screen of Death on a Dell PowerEdge R810 running ESXi 4.1 Update 1. The stop screen showed the following reason: LINT1 motherboard interrupt. This is a hardware problem: please contact your hardware vendor After working with Dell tech…
This week I worked with a group of people that have a monitoring application — basically a glorified task scheduler for 32bit DOS applications. Among other things, this application attempts to check Microsoft Cluster Services (MSCS) failover status and send emails (using BLAT.exe) in the event a cluster was unbalanced.…
The other day I noticed two bugs in version 5.38 of the vCheck script. This minor update resolves those bugs and adds a check for 4.1 hosts without Active Directory authentication configured. # Version 5.40- bwuch: Host version greater than/equal 4.1.0 and AD Auth not configured # Version 5.39- bwuch:…
I’ve had this link in my notes for a long time. I’ve only used it twice, but thought it was worth sharing. If you ever need to make a test Active Directory for some really crazy testing, and you’ve ever extended the schema, you may want those extended attributes. There…