This story begins with SevOne, our in-house network performance monitoring system. We have a policy configured in SevOne to alert us when a router serial interface is at or above 95%, meaning the Sprint MPLS WAN link for that location is nearly if not fully consumed. Obviously this is a bad thing as it severely...
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In this installment of Captain Obvious Log, we focus our attention on the Remote Desktop connection bar, a ubiquitous hallmark of every IT geek’s daily life. So, one would think every IT geek would know how to hide/display the connection bar depending on what is suitable for a given situation. Well, sometimes we can go...
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Are you receiving the following error (or similar) when attempting to deploy a VMware template in vSphere / vCenter? PROBLEM: Clone virtual machine Customization of the guest operating system ‘windows7Server64Guest’ is not supported in this configuration. Microsoft Vista (TM) and Linux guests with Logical Volume Manager are supported only for recent ESX host and VMware...
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If you are having trouble powering off a VMware ESXi 5.x virtual machine, there is a command line method to force the VM to shut down. Here was the message I was receiving when trying to power off a VM: The attempted operation cannot be performed in the current state. So the current state, which...
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