in exchange 2007 from the management console – “Server Configuration”. in this case it was version 8.3 enterprise and 8.3 means 2007 sp3. more info here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/152439/en-us

with 5.x there are some kind of annoying host warnings regarding the ESXi Shell and SSH access being enabled on a host. while i don’t think people enable the ESXi Shell unless they really need to; i do imagine lots of people leave SSH access on 24/7 for remote management purposes. i don’t like to […]

i’m still learning the ropes of the onboard sd cards in the r720. about a week or so ago, i was installing a pcie expansion card into an r720. the pcie expansion slots are located directly above the sd card slots. after i installed the expansion card i went about installing esxi. from the drac […]

useful for a standalone environment that utilizes local storage… ESX(i) host->Configuration->Virtual Machine Startup/Shutdown->Properties source: http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=850

for 5.1 i decided to do everything with distributed vswitches where as previously we only had LAN traffic on dvswitches. design: LAN dvswitch (trunk ports, 2 uplinks, one 10Gbs + one 1Gbs) vmk0 – management vMotion dvswitch (1 uplink, one 10Gbs) vmk1 – vmotion iSCSI dvswitch (9000 MTU, 2 uplinks, both 10Gbs) vmk2 – iscsi1 […]

today we were kind of wondering how accurate the guest OS labeling was in vcenter. from my perspective, i was thinking that the person creating the VM could easily select an incorrect guest OS label and that it wouldn’t automatically change nor affect the functionality of the VM. but then i started wondering if vmware […]

i upgraded to 13.10 this past weekend. upgrade went fine with no problems. my thoughts on new distribution releases are a lot less exciting than in the past. nowadays i’m mostly looking to make sure my productivity apps still function after an upgrade. in other words, okay i’ve upgraded…now what’s broken?  and i don’t mean […]

today i searched in vain for the security tab in DNS manager on a stand-alone windows 2008 DNS server. it simply does not exist. after some brief research (3 or so different sources) i discovered that there is no way to set DNS server permissions on a stand-alone server. the only option for accessing DNS […]

i’m always seeing articles about bitcoin and bitcoin mining so i figured i’d finally look into it. i installed bitcoin-qt in ubuntu and upon starting it, the application had to synchronize the block chain. since it said it was 100-ish weeks behind i let it run over night. i came back to check in the […]

this is one of those things that is baffling yet stupidly easy to fix. i had a VDR destination that backup jobs were suddenly failing on…as in instantly failing with an error -2246. i’ve encountered problems with VDR destinations before and assumed the catalog was messed up so i went about reformatting the destination and […]