The following tutorial will show us how to deploy a Domain Controller using the Install from Media option (IFM). This tutorial will also help you prepare for the 70-742 certification exam. Before we dive into the step-by-step part of this article, let’s look at the reasons why we would do an IFM install in the […]
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In case you didn’t see my last article about automating the creation of Port Groups in an enterprise VMware environment, I highly recommend you do, since this second script is all about copying the existing Port Groups from one host to a new one. This is useful when we are adding a new host to […]
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Hello and welcome to all VMware admins. For the few of us who have an enterprise scale VMware environment with hundreds of VLANs and servers, setting up a new VLAN on all our ESXi hosts can be a daunting task. That’s why I came up with this script that will make our life easier and […]
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This is the first of a series of step-by-step tutorials on Microsoft Active Directory. These tutorials are also geared towards the 70-742 exam and they can get you ready for the MCSA or MCSE Certification. So let us jump right in. Before we start installing the Active Directory Domain Services role on our server, we […]
In this tutorial, I am going to show you how to configure a static IP address on a system that has one network card through PowerShell. This can come in handy when we have many servers that we are deploying and we would like to automate the IP addressing based on an Excel spreadsheet, for […]
Hello fellow sysadmins and techies! I recently had a request from a client of mine to deploy a Citrix XenApp environment on a budget. What does on a budget mean? We all know, one small server, that should host all of the components, with no need for high-availability or load balancing. So as a part-time […]
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After setting up a new installation of ESXi on my refurbished Dell PowerEdge server, I realized that the datastore was only using two of the six SAS drives installed on the system. This was because two of the drives were in a RAID 1 configuration and the other four drives were in a RAID 5 […]
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Once you have installed VMware ESXi onto a server, you’ll need to add your license key via the web interface. Otherwise, you’ll only be using the trial version, which lasts for 60 days. If you’re downloading the free version of ESXi, you can get the license key by visiting the evaluation page for ESXi. You will […]
Once you have installed VMware ESXi onto a server, you will probably want to give it a static IP address rather than using DHCP. There are two ways you can configure ESXi with a static IP: either via the web GUI interface or via the server console management screen. I found it a lot easier […]
I’ve been using VMware Workstation on my personal PC for quite a few years, but I was having one big issue: the virtual machines were simply taking up too much space. I use an SSD on my personal computer, but the drive isn’t that large. With only three VMs on my local machine, it was […]
