Sometimes a VM is stuck and can’t be killed with vSphere Client Login through ssh to the Esxi server and get a list of running VMs identified by World ID: esxcli vm process list Power off one of the virtual … Continue reading
Shutdown-Restart: event ID:1074 Unexpected shutdown: event ID:6008
The PsExec tool which is one of the SysInternals tools provides a way to open a remote command window without needing to install anything on the remote computer. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897553.aspx With psExec installed you can open a remote command prompt by … Continue reading
Problem: Logon scripts not running. Check for event ID 1058 in System Event Log.In the details tab find the sysvol path pointing to the gpt.ini file.Check if the file is accessible. Check which DC the pc uses to login to … Continue reading
Timezone data files are stored on: /usr/share/zoneinfo $ sudo rm /etc/localtime $ sudo ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Athens /etc/localtime # # now check it's ok # $ date Wed Oct 1 12:42:33 GMT 2008
gpresult /Scope User /v
A quick way to create a file of a specific size from command prompt: fsutil file createnew C:\bigfile.txt 5000000000 The above command will create bigfile.txt with size 4,65GB.
You may get logs similar to the following: Sep 17 16:15:07 nsserver named[21089]: network unreachable resolving ‘ns2.vistaprint.com/A/IN’: 2001:503:a83e::2:30#53 You can specify OPTIONS=’-4′ in /etc/sysconfig/named to tell named not to use IPv6 or disable IPv6 completely on your machine. You can … Continue reading
From command prompt: echo %logonserver%
—Find VMs with snapshots Connect-VIServer vcenter Get-VM | Get-Snapshot | Select Created, VM —Find VMs with mounted ISO Get-VM | FT Name, @{Label="ISO file"; Expression = { ($_ | Get-CDDrive).ISOPath }} —Get Datastores and Used Storage for VMs within Cluster … Continue reading