vSphere 5 and vRAM pricing
VMware announce a new pricing model today. I do understand why they did it I am just not sure if it was the smartest thing to do. Only time will tell. I have been around long enough to remember Novell....
View ArticleAdding another Drive to Backup SBS 2011 Failed
I got “cannot configure backup schedule” when trying to add a new second drive to the server. I tried everything I could think of and the last item on this KB worked for me....
View ArticleESXi 5.0 warning: System logging not Configured on host
I installed ESXi 5.0 on a system that had ESXi 4.1 on it. I did a clean install. When I got done with the install (installed on a USB drive) I configured the storage a raid 5 array with a hot spare I...
View ArticleSBS 2011 Control Shared Folders in RWW
I love SBS 2011 and the way you can have shared folder display in your RWW. However sometimes a folder is displayed there you may not want. Like QuickBooks etc. Here is a way to control what folders...
View ArticleLock File ESX or ESXi What can be done?
Easiest thing is to just restart the host but this is not practical in a lot of cases. What can you do? First we need to identify the open file you can use lsof (LiSt Open Files) in the console to see...
View ArticleDo not re-use IP address if DNS from Old domain name is still in place
Do not re-use IP address if DNS from Old domain name is still in place. For example we put up a new web site. http://www.touchpointatm.com and reused and old IP addess that was still attached to an old...
View ArticleP2V Virtualization VMware
When you run VMware Converter and you boot up the virtual computer the first time are you good to go? Well you could use it like that however there is one more step you should take. Best to backup or...
View ArticleSee how Group Polices effect a single machine
The easiest way to see how a single machine is being effected by Group Polices is to run this command from a elevated comment prompt on the client computer not the server. Gpresult /v > Gp.txt This...
View ArticleElitePad 900 Windows 8 Activation
Just got an ElitePad 900. Strange thing is when I booted it up it said that Windows needed to be activated. So I call HP and they said you will have to send it back. I though that was ridiculous so I...
View ArticleP2V SBS 2011
Just finished a P2V Windows Small Business Server 2011 P2V. What made it a little more difficult was the server that SBS was running on was going to be the hypervizor too. So I had to P2V to one of the...
View ArticleosTicket cron job setup
I had a little bit of a hard time setting up the cron job to retrieve mail on my new osTicket. Here is what I finally figured out. sudo crontab -e If this is the first time you have run this it will...
View ArticleChange Ubuntu Linux Server from DHCP to Static
Changing this setting without a GUI will require text editing. Open up the /etc/network/interfaces file. I’m going to use nano, but you can choose a different editor sudo nano /etc/network/interfaces...
View ArticleMisc Commands
Restart Apache sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 reload Move all files from a directory to another one mv /somefolder/* /anotherfolder Delete all Files and Folder Example rm -rf /home/jerry/movies/
View ArticleAdding a Second Drive to your Ubuntu Server
Finding the New Hard Drive in Ubuntu Only One Drive you should see this ls /dev/sd* /dev/sda /dev/sda1 /dev/sda2 /dev/sda5 Adding a second drive you should see this ls /dev/sd* /dev/sda /dev/sda1...
View ArticleUpdate your Ubuntu Server
sudo apt-get update # Fetches the list of available updates sudo apt-get upgrade # Strictly upgrades the current packages sudo apt-get dist-upgrade # Installs updates (new ones)
View ArticleInstalling VMware tools on an Ubuntu guest
Simple and seems to be the best way. apt-get install open-vm-tools
View ArticleCannot be loaded because the execution of scripts is disabled on this system
Start PowerShell but Right Click and Run as Administrator Then run this and you will be all set. Set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned
View ArticleSetup SFTP on Ubuntu
I am not sure this is the best way to do this nor am I sure it is that secure. But this is how I did it. Edit sudo nano /etc/ssh/sshd_config modify the Subsystem sftp line to look like the following:...
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