I needed to extend the main storage of my fileserver this morning. While VMware happily extended the storage volume for the VM when I asked it to, Windows 2012 R2 was not so helpful. Luckily this i...
When accessing remote systems using SSH it can be handy to use RSA keys rather than having to enter a password every time. Especially handy if doing automation using Ansible or similar tools. Here’...
SSH to the iDRAC of the machine: jonas@nyx:~$ ssh root@192.168.0.2 root@192.168.0.2’s password: Enter RACADM: /admin1-> racadm Check for existing RAID volumes: racadm»storage get vdisks racadm...
Background Yesterday I needed to setup an R720 remotely and it needed a new RAID volume created. The issue was that rather than the normal Enterprise license the server had an iDRAC Express license...
Set the DNS first to ensure the iDRAC can resolve the NTP host names: racadm -r 10.1.1.100 -u root -p calvin set idrac.ipv4static.dns1 8.8.8.8 Set the NTP server names: racadm -r 10.1.1.100 -u roo...
Enable NTP and restart service PS C:\Users\Administrator> w32tm /config /manualpeerlist:pool.ntp.org /syncfromflags:MANUAL コマンドは正しく完了しました。 PS C:\Users\Administrator> Stop-Service w32time PS...
Detection of the USB-Serial converter used on your machine (so you get the correct device name to use later): 1. tail -f /var/log/messages or /var/log/syslog 2. Plug in the USB cable 3. It will sh...
Ever deployed a non-English Windows server via SCVMM and then tried installing SQL server on it? Won’t work. The OS and SQL server languages have to match and in a stroke of genius SCVMM always mak...
apt-get install cifs-utils sudo mount -t cifs /// / -o username=,domain=,password= It’s fine to omit the password on the command line for security purposes. It will then prompt for it to be enter...
Global settings stored here: vi /etc/profile Add to the end: MY_PROXY_URL=”https://proxyserver:portnumber/” HTTP_PROXY=$MY_PROXY_URL HTTPS_PROXY=$MY_PROXY_URL FTP_PROXY=$MY_PROXY_URL https_proxy=$...