Author Archives: brian.wuchner

Active Directory: Find recent NO_CLIENT_SITE subnets

Posted on August 11, 2010 by brian.wuchner

From time to time I try to verify that all of my subnet boundaries are properly defined in AD Sites and Services. At some locations this is a little more challenging — especially when a site has many domain controllers. … Continue reading →

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Create a bunch of snapshots with PowerCLI

Posted on August 10, 2010 by brian.wuchner

Last week I was working with snapshots in my lab. I came up with this one liner to create a bunch of snapshots on the same virtual machine: for ($i=1; $i -le 5; $i++) {get-vm “snaptest” |new-snapshot -name “snapshot00$i” -Description … Continue reading →

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Install VMware Tools in openfiler

Posted on August 8, 2010 by brian.wuchner

I have a couple of lab type vSphere setups that use Openfiler virtual machines for shared storage. For several months these have been running with out of date VMware tools. Several weeks ago I was able to upgrade these tools … Continue reading →

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Check ESXi to see if sshd is listening

Posted on June 16, 2010 by brian.wuchner

In a recent service request with VMware, Tech Support enabled ssh on one of my ESXi hosts. Unfortunately, the outage that prompted my support request impacted multiple hosts in different clusters, so we were looking at many things in the … Continue reading →

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Virtualizing a Windows Active Directory Domain Infrastructure

Posted on June 10, 2010 by brian.wuchner

I’ve been thinking about virtualization of production domain controllers.  I have several virtualized DCs in a lab environment and even a very small production/standalone forest (less than 200 users) that only uses a single DC.  I’ve read a bunch of … Continue reading →

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