Mar 20, 2016 Posted by newlife007

Using HyperBox to Manage Your VirtualBox 5.0 Servers

Introduction So you have a few instances of VirtualBox running on a few systems and wondering if there is a central tool to manage them similar to vCenter. Well there is such a tool called Hyperbox.  According to the site. Hyperbox is a free virtualized infrastructure manager across your different hypervisors. It aims to provide a free alternative to commercial products like VMware vCenter/ESXi and Citrix... read more

Mar 14, 2016 Posted by newlife007

Installing WMF 5 and PowerShell 5 on Windows 2012 R2

Introduction PowerShell continues to improve, many features are being added and now we have PowerShell 5 that is available for installation on Windows Server 2012 and Windows 8.1. The installation is simple and only requires a reboot. Windows Management Framework 5.0 (WMF 5) includes updates to Windows PowerShell, Windows PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC), Windows Remote Management (WinRM),... read more

Mar 12, 2016 Posted by newlife007

How to Manually change your NIC to Promiscuous Mode on Windows 2008 R2

What Is The Promiscuous Mode? By default when a network card receives a packet, it checks whether the packet belongs to itself. If not, the interface card normally drops the packet. But in promiscuous mode, the card doesn’t drop the packet. Instead, it will accept all the packets which flows through the network card. Some Network Interface Cards (NICs) may not allow network traffic after you create a... read more

Mar 7, 2016 Posted by newlife007

How to Change FA Ports on an Existing VMAX PortGroup

Introduction You have a situation on your VMAX where the port utilization is up and you would like to move the FA ports assigned to a PortGroup moved to a lesser utilized set on you switch. In this post we will cover how to move to a new port group and fix the mapping of all attached devices on your EMC VMAX. We will cover unmapping ports and fixing zoning. Process First part of the puzzle to create new... read more

Feb 28, 2016 Posted by newlife007

How To Configure Network Interface Using IFCONFIG

Introduction One of many useful commands to master as an administrator of Linux systems is the ifconfig command. Ifconfig command is used to configure network interfaces. Ifconfig is used to initialize the network interface and to enable or disable the interfaces. Common Uses Here are several common usages of ifconfig command. View Network Settings of an Ethernet Adapter Ifconfig, when invoked with no... read more