Managing RAID Volumes with RACADM on Dell PowerEdge R720 Background When working with Dell servers that have iDRAC Express licenses (which lack remote console capabilities), you can’t use the sta...
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 ro...
Configuring NTP and Time Settings in Windows Server 2012 R2 This guide demonstrates how to configure Network Time Protocol (NTP) settings and time zones on Windows Server 2012 R2 using PowerShell ...
Detection of the USB-Serial converter used on your machine (so you get the correct device name to use later): tail -f /var/log/messages or /var/log/syslog Plug in the USB cable It will show...
Fixing Language Mismatch Between SQL Server and Windows OS The Problem Have you ever deployed a non-English Windows server via System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) and then tried install...
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...
Configuring Proxy Settings in CentOS/RHEL 7 This guide explains how to set up system-wide proxy settings for CentOS or Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Setting Global Proxy Configuration Step 1: Edit...
Download psexec from Sysinternals / MS. It only needs to be installed on the machine you run the commands from, not the targets. Note: * All machines must be in the same domain or workgroup * Fire...
Resolving Hyper-V Error 23001 in SCVMM The Problem When you’ve created a Hyper-V cluster using Cluster Shared Volumes (CSV) and installed System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM), you might ...
Overview It’s very easy to enable SNMP 1.0 / 2.0 management of the Dell MXL blade network switches. All it takes is one command really (“snmp-server community public ro”). SSH to the network switc...