An engineer is someone who can make for a dollar what any fool could make for two. – Alan Kay
dcpromo.exe /unattend /replicaOrNewDomain:domain /newDomain:forest /newDomainDnsName:velaskec.com /domainNetbiosName:velaskec /safeModeAdminPassword:pa$$word
Use this PowerShell script if you need to remove Password Complexity Requirements from Windows Server 2008 Core: secedit /export /cfg c:\new.cfg ${c:new.cfg}=${c:new.cfg} | % {$_.Replace(‘PasswordComplexity=1′, ‘PasswordComplexity=0′)} secedit /configure /db $env:windir\security\new.sdb /cfg c:\new.cfg /areas SECURITYPOLICY del c:\new.cfg
There is a very usefull CMDLet Invoke-VMScript which comes with VMWare PowerCLI. You can use it to run the PowerShell scripts against a virtual machine (VM). The CMDLet has several advantages over native PowerShell 2.0 remoting: 1. Avoiding one hop while executing the script (on the VM, the script is executed from the first person). [...]
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Esxtop allows monitoring and collection of data for all system resources: CPU, memory, disk and network. It works with the free-licensed ESXi as well. enable remote console access to your ESXi host. open console session or ssh to ESX(i) and type: esxtop -h … and get the basic idea of usage then you can run the [...]
Just want to introuduce the management tool for VMWare ESXi. It works with the free-licensed ESXi as well. The main benefit is that you can manage a lot of ESXi servers from the one console. You can get the information in one window across all of your VMs from all managed ESXi servers. To start working [...]
It is usefull if you are going to create a Windows Cluster. In that case you have to create a quorum disk. enable remote console access to your ESXi host start putty go to your datastore (e.g. cd /vmfs/volumes/datastore1) mkdir CLUSTER cd CLUSTER vmkfstools –c 4G –d eagerzeroedthick –a lsilogic quorum.vmdk
UPDATE (March 16, 2011):There is no need in this trick starting from the ESXi 4.1. You can configure it. got to your VMware ESXi host press Alt-F1 then type “UNSUPPORTED” and press <enter> login with your root login and password edit the inetd.conf file by typing “vi /etc/inetd.conf“ remove the comment # in front of [...]
VMware itself recommends using VMware Server for testing and development, and the commercial variant VMware ESXi for production systems. http://www.vmware.com/products/server/faqs.html
