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 articles and outlined my findings below. Please feel free to…
I’ve had to create a bunch of SSL certificates for ESX/ESXi hosts. Its always a pain because there are a bunch of steps and I can’t remember what my company always uses for the Organization name/Organizational unit name. I created some documentation on the process and have to look at…
I recently went through and upgraded the VMware Tools on all of my virtual machines. The only one I couldn’t get to work was my vCenter Mobile Access machine. After some searching, I finally found this article on the VMware Communities site. It took awhile to find, so I wanted…
I recently attended the VMware vSphere Troubleshooting course. It was a very good course and I’d recommend it to anyone responsible for day-to-day maintenance of a virtual infrastructure. During the course we discussed the vMA (vSphere Management Assistant) and looked at some of the vSwitch configuration options you could set. One…
Over the years I have seen thousands of Windows Servers and completed hundreds of Windows P2Vs. I only have dozens of Linux Servers and have yet to attempt a Linux P2V – until now! To beign I found an older model physical server. This physical server had a Dell PERC…