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Check ntp status and time on your ESX servers

Inspired by dkfbp in the VMware Community forums, i made this simple script that checks the date/time and ntpd service status of your ESX servers. Its a Powershell/vSphere PowerCLI script that basically serves as a wrapper for plink.exe which then executes...

Published 30 sep 2009 21:10 by Rasmus Sjørslev

Filed under: VMware, Scripts, vsphere, powershell
Using WOL from the internet

Being able to use Wake On Lan (WOL) thrue a router from the internet, seemed like the perfect match for my new Windows Home Server. Not wanting the server to be on at all times this feature would make me able to power the server up, get the files i need...

Published 17 sep 2009 19:05 by Rasmus Sjørslev

Filed under: power management, WOL, asus
How-to: Configure DELL servers for use with vSphere DPM

One of the neat little feature upgrades in ESX 4 compared to 3.x is that Distributed Power Management (DPM) is now officially supported. In 3.5 it was experimental and the only way to power on your hosts was using WOL. In ESX 4 features like IPMI and...

Published 5 sep 2009 23:47 by Rasmus Sjørslev

Filed under: drac, dell, vsphere, ipmi, power management, dpm
Bacis configuration changes in Linux - ESX/Appliances

I always get lost when it comes to configuring things like DNS, default gateway, IP settings and so on in Linux - more precise ESX and appliances. Being tired of always have to google the answers, this post should cover how to do basic IP configuration...

Published 2 sep 2009 15:33 by Rasmus Sjørslev

Filed under: search, linux, esx, commands, network

september 2009 - rasmus sjoerslev

Check ntp status and time on your ESX servers

Using WOL from the internet

How-to: Configure DELL servers for use with vSphere DPM

Bacis configuration changes in Linux - ESX/Appliances