Author Archives: brian.wuchner

VMware ESXi Purple Screen of Death (PSOD) on Dell Server

Posted on June 21, 2011 by brian.wuchner

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: … Continue reading →

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64bit DOS commands with a 32bit (two-bit) application

Posted on June 10, 2011 by brian.wuchner

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 … Continue reading →

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PowerCLI vCheck 5.40

Posted on May 31, 2011 by brian.wuchner

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 … Continue reading →

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Export, Compare, and Synchronize Active Directory Schemas

Posted on May 18, 2011 by brian.wuchner

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 … Continue reading →

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Configure virtual machine for nested ESX/ESXi with PowerCLI

Posted on May 17, 2011 by brian.wuchner

I’ve been working with several scripts in a lab recently. Most of these labs require additional ESXi hosts (namely vCheck testing) so I’ve been propping up some nested ESXi virtual machines. When I create a virtual machine to run nested … Continue reading →

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