So this isn’t the usual type of thing that I like to write about, but I’m a huge fan of making knowledge publicly available, so here goes. Recently I changed the email address on my iTunes account. After that happened, and after I’d verified, I wasn’t able to sign into iTunes. I kept receiving an […]
Using apt-get through a proxy: Ubuntu
Wanted to post this more for my edification than anything else, but perhaps someone will make some use of it. If you need to use apt-get behind a proxy, put this little script in your .bashrc file.
Windows 2008 Guest Networking: PowerCLI
If you’ve spent any time deploying Windows Server 2008 using VMware vCenter’s Customization Specifications, you’ve probably run into a weird issue where the OS doesn’t retain its default gateway after a reboot. This is actually a known bug in Windows 2008, and it occurs when the gateway is set with netsh. When that happens, a […]
Fun times with vDS: VMware
I ran into a very strange issue the other day, and I wanted to share it. On my biggest VMware cluster, we run 7 x IBM 3850 M2’s with 2 x 10GbE public, 2 x 10GbE private and 2 x dualport 4GB FC HBA’s. (Side note, these sorts of conversations remind me of the “gearheads” […]
vMotion failing at 82%: VMware
The other day, one of my coworkers was attempting to upgrade a cluster from ESX 4.0 to ESXi 4.1. He started on a host that was empty (no DRS; manually load balanced cluster), and after that completed he began to evacuate the other 2 ESX 4.0 hosts to the newly installed ESXi 4.1 host. While […]