Hi everyone!If you are like me, and have started using System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) quite recently, after some time you cannot help wonder, how often and what triggers those refresh jobs that you can see in the Jobs…
ESXi Commands – Hardware Commands
Now that you have a bit of knowledge of the basics in ESXi SSH commands, its time to explore the next set of commands, which will refer to useful hardware commands.I am not going to detail each and every command,…
ESXi Commands – Basic Commands
ESXi is the technology that sits at the basic level of virtualization when using VMWare products. Be it a standalone ESXi host or one managed through vCenter, as a virtualization administrator or system administrator you must get familiar with the…
vCenter Server Appliance (vCSA) 6.5 Deployment Guide
Hi everyone,In the world of virtualization using VMWare products, especially on-premises, the management software used is called vCenter. This comes in 2 flavours, vCenter for Windows and the vCenter Server Appliance (vCSA). Lately VMWare is concentrating on the vCSA version…
How to set MOTD on vCenter and ESXi
If you ever want to setup a Message of The Day for people logging into your vCenter Server (maybe you have a organisational policy, or for identification if you use multiple vCenter), log on to the vCenter using vSphere client,…
Why did the Computer Browser Service disappear?
Hi everyone,If you are like me, you might (or might not :P) observe that the Computer Browser Service, on some of your computers/servers, especially Windows 8.1/2012R2 and up, has all of a sudden disappeared! Well, that’s not something you should…
Internet Printing Feature – Web-based Management for Print Servers
In order to provide your users with another method of connecting/adding printers from a print server in your environment, you can setup an easy-to-use web page. To do this, you need to add the necessary roles. Open the Server ManagerStart…
Boot Target Devices from a previous vDisk version
Having a colleague of ours troubleshooting an application issue on Citrix, he has asked if its possible to have one server (a target device), booted from a previous vDisk version. That made me wonder, and try to find another solution,…
How to update DELL PowerEdge Servers firmware
I will have to admit to not knowing this! – Having a recent case open with DELL, i have discovered that if you want to update firmware for DELL PowerEdge Servers, instead of doing one update at a time, you…
How to reallocate Citrix licenses
Hi everyone,Recently we got notified that some of the Citrix licenses we use will soon expire and soon decided to renew and reallocate them, as a proactive measure.The steps to achieve that are below:1. Connect to the Citrix License Management…