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There’s got to be a better way…. If you put Object Lock on a bucket and use retention hold periods on your data to protect from early/ransomeware deletion, then when it comes time to remove thate data – how do

Had the misfortune of needing to rebuild a Windows 10 Pro machine. The only install DVD that I has was from July 2016 – so almost 4 years old. Install went fine, but was left with the install at build

Many log messages come up referring to the device WWN naa id e.g 2019-09-02T10:30:44.337Z: [scsiCorrelator] 304273812631us: [vob.scsi.device.io.latency.high] Device naa.60002ac000000000000000140001eac6 performance has deteriorated. I/O latency increased from average value of 826 microseconds to 16837 microseconds. 2019-09-02T10:30:44.337Z: [scsiCorrelator] 304280755082us: [esx.problem.scsi.device.io.latency.high] Device naa.60002ac000000000000000140001eac6

The latest (as of 26th June 2019) version on vCenter Server Appliance is 6.7u2b. This may come as somewhat of a suprise – as that is not available as a download from VMware. We discovered this after deploying 6.7u2, then

If you try and activate a WIndows 2019 server using a (valid) MAK key, it fails. it’s a known bug and folks have been very vocal on a lot of communities. At this stage, I’m also aware only of the

Needing to generate random files on windows?  Try this powershell one liner…. Generates 100 1G files of random data. Not as easy as the old dd on linux.  But it works Note:fsutil file createnew is no good as it created

Once upon time there was ‘ping’.  A nice tool to check connectivity.  Had the ability to set the df (don’t fragment bit) and set size so you could check end to end MTU. Then along came ‘vmkping’, which is pretty

Has been done before, but things have changed with 6.5 and Get-EsxCli -V2, so I thought I’d share an updated script.   This makes sure you have the same SNMP settings on all hosts.  This is kind of a response