I had a customer with around 27 file servers used as locations for AD home drives. We needed to do some analysis on which users used which server, as things like DFS or a strategy of where to place users were not in place. So PowerShell to the rescue. A simple version of this script … Continue reading Powershell – Get-ADuser and output the homedrives to CSV file
Following on from the recent (November 2015) ESXi 6.0 CBT bug, which has now been fixed in the latest released patch ESXi600-201511401-BG, some further information has come to light, provided by Anton Gostev, of Veeam. You can read the snippet of important information from the Veeam forum post following the issue (Official Veeam KB2075); All, … Continue reading Further ESXi 6.0 CBT bug info – Reset your CBT!!!
This is a little of a late post but back in June I was invited by the amigos over at AdminAdmin Podcast to chat about my favourite subject. Me! This was prompted after they mentioned my How to document posts, and I reached out to say thanks as it had generated extra traffic for my blog. … Continue reading Guest appearance on the AdminAdmin Podcast
Part 1 – Setting up Fabric Interconnect, and UCS Manager settings Part 2 – Configuring Connectivity & Setting up the policies and Service Profiles Part 3 – Deploying ESXi via KVM onto FlashFlex (SDCard) Part 4 – Upgrading the Firmware My previous posts in the series covered getting the Cisco UCS up and running and … Continue reading Deploy a Cisco UCS system – Part 4 – Upgrading the Firmware
Cisco have been distributing the UCS emulator for a while now, and thanks to some changes, I am now faced with having to deploy some of the systems, so today I deployed the emulator on VMware Fusion on my MBP. Downloading You can download the emulator in a zip or OVA, and it can be … Continue reading Getting to grips with the Cisco UCS Emulator