Nmap (“Network Mapper”) is a free and open source utility for network discovery and security auditing. I along with many other systems and network administrators also find it to be a useful tool for the right job. Nmap can be installed and used in Windows, and mostly common in Linux distributions such as Debian and the […]
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At the office we recently built two white box, built it yourself servers (lego’s). I called them Lego’s due to the fact they are build your own types and not OEM. For each of these powerhouse systems we got 3ware 9650SE RAID controllers (3ware 9650SE-4LPML PCI Express Lanes: 4 SATA II Controller Card RAID Levels 0, 1, 5, […]
After converting a Linux (Debian) machine using VMware vCenter Converter Standalone, to have a copy of my virtual machine running on ESXi 5.x in VMware Player. I encountered the following error on start-up: buslogic SCSI adapter is not supported for 64-bit guests There isn’t an option in the VMware Player to change the scsi type, so […]
Long story short; I wanted to have VNC Console access to my VMware ESXi 5.x guest systems. Now knowing what I wanted I needed to find a way out. After trying many steps I narrowed down the steps that work perfectly in ESXi 5. First thing to know is that you require a custom firewall […]
The following steps are what I used to disable this warning on top of my VSphere Client to manage my ESXi 5.x servers. Select the ESXi 5.x host server in your Inventory Select Configuration Select Advanced Settings on the left under the Software menu Once selected find your way to the bottom where UserVars is […]
I am in the process of moving VirtualBox vdi’s over the VMware ESXi host so what better chance is there to post the process I am taking to make this happen. To perform this “magic” trick you will be using the VBoxManger tool to clone the VirtualBox disk into VMware formatted disk types. I am […]