Get a List of all ESX Hosts in a Datacenter

Get a List of all ESX Hosts in a Datacenter

Another simple one-liner to get a list of hostnames of all ESX servers in the vCenter. This can be useful for a number of...
Pushing SSH Keys

Pushing SSH Keys

This is just a quick note for me on pushing SSH keys using sshpass and xargs. The ~/hosts.txt file contains a list of remote hosts, one per...
Configure and Run esxcli on Red Hat

Configure and Run esxcli on Red Hat

The esxcli utility is used to interface with the vSphere and ESX hosts. It is a useful tool for getting to some basic VMWare...
Samba Flexible Character Mapping

Samba Flexible Character Mapping

This is probably old news to most of you, but I just found out: Samba v 3.5+ has a new option for flexible mapping...
Wget Examples

Wget Examples

This is a follow-up to my previous wget notes (1, 2, 3, 4). From time to time I find myself googling wget syntax even though I...
Sun T-Series ILOM and Solaris 11 Network Configuration

Sun T-Series ILOM and Solaris 11 Network Configuration

Just some quick notes on setting up Oracle Sun T-series server ILOM and network aggregation with LACP. I don't get to do this very...
Managing VMs with PowerCLI

Managing VMs with PowerCLI

Below is a collection of useful Power-CLI one-liners (or thereabouts) that can speed up your script-writing efforts. As everything Windows, things change often and...
Monitoring DNS Queries

Monitoring DNS Queries

Recently I've been decommissioning old DNS servers and those things are notoriously hard to get rid of. The problem was that the IP addresses...
Google Search Tips

Google Search Tips

Google has some advanced search features that few people use, which is a shame. Here are some of them. I am sure there are...