Lost your root password? Well, this is very unfortunate! This tutorial will show you how to reset ESXi root password. There is no supported method to “reset” the root password, VMware suggest to boot from ESXi installer disk and select “Install ESXi, preserve VMFS datastore” option. This will overwrite the current installation (fresh install, overwriting… Read More »
Seeing such message in your system logs? general protection rip:803886e rsp:ffc22690 error:0 This mean you have a hardware fault. Can be likely memory, but can be something else as well. *RIP is the 64 bit execution pointer.
To find out the network ports currently opened by running software on a Linux machine, simply use LSOF (list open files). This can also sort out the communication port as well. To display IPv4 ports : lsof -Pnl +M -i4 To display IPv6 ports : lsof -Pnl +M -i6
Here is how to change Windows serial number from command line. Open the command prompt first as administrator, then enter : slmgr.vbs -ipk <WINDOWS_SERIAL_NUMBER> Then, to activate : slmgr.vbs -ato
Got this issue trying to register/enter the license key in the R1Soft Backup Manager Web interface? java.net.UnknownHostException: <SERVER_NAME>: <SERVER_NAME> Not unique in ID space [Page dCJQ_]: activationWindow This mean the server host name do not match the IP address you specified in your license pool at the R1Soft Customer Portal. Create or set the A… Read More »
Getting this error while trying to run a backup policy on R1Soft server? Error replicating device (F0CC90E5CC90A77E) An exception occurred during the request. Unable to parse ‘C:\Program Files\Idera Server Backup\conf\disksafe-keys\5265aa4b-e25d-4d05-91d4-e6bca778f4b7.xml’; unable to open primary document entity ‘C:\Program Files\Idera Server Backup\conf\disksafe-keys\5265aa4b-e25d-4d05-91d4-e6bca778f4b7.xml’ Agent reported error during requested operation. This is probably because your DiskSafe is encrypted and… Read More »
You might get this message launching VMware vSphere PowerCLI on your Windows workstation : The PowerShell execution policy of this computer is not set to “RemoteSigned”. This prevents execution of PowerShell scripts on your computer and will result in errors when VMware vSphere PowerCLI is invoked. It is recommended that you set the execution policy… Read More »
Here is a quicky how to change/modify the priority of a process on your system task scheduler. I will first explain how to change the priority of an existing process and then for new processes. 1. Find out the current priority either using “top” or with the specific process ID : ps -o pid,comm,nice -p… Read More »
If like a lot of sysadmin, you manage servers in a remote location and usual clean shutdown dosen’t work but you still have console access, there is a workaround to send an interrupt that will do exactly the same as you push the reset button. Since a reset on a heavy used server is never… Read More »
By default, Exchange will set the smtp banner to the local name into the Active Directory. However, this can cause serious issue when communicating with other mail servers on the Internet. The banner need to be changed on the “ReceiveConnector” through the Exchange Management Shell. 1. Get the current ReceiveConnector name : Get-ReceiveConnector This should… Read More »