Recently, I had a task assigned to me to get SFTP up and running on a Windows 2008 server. I did some Googling and found a few resources, but only by combining the various bits of information was I able to get it up and running. I thought I’d throw it all together into a […]
Archives for November 2010
ESXi 4.1 remote log collection with VMware vMA 4.1
When I first decided to blog about this, I started doing some Googling for resources. I ran across an excellent post by Simon Long that talked about using vMA’s vilogger capabilities for remote logging, but his blog post was written with 4.0 in mind, and didn’t line up exactly with how things are done with […]
NetApp PowerShell Credential Bug (Fixed!)
Update: This has been resolved in the 1.3 release of the Toolkit. I ran into a bug while trying to write a script that would cycle through all of my NetApp filers and change the root password. The issue was that I was unable to pass a PSCredential object to Connect-NaController because passing credentials meant […]
OVA’s and OVF’s: What are they, and what’s the difference?
Chances are good that you’ve run into an OVF/OVA from a variety of sources: as a packaged application or appliance from a vendor, as a download from the VMware community appliances site, or even while physically moving virtual machine files from one location to another. I admit, when I first started administering VMware, I didn’t […]