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Tomaterna börjar ta sig

Lightning strike behind Tokyo tower on the way home from work today

Custom scooter club outing

Legoland in Odaiba

vCenter AD authentication
When enabling Active Directory authentication on the vCenter appliance, ensure that DNS name resolution is working first. Set the DNS settings and hostname and then ensure that resolution and rever...

vCenter appliance: “No networking detected”
If after deploying and booting the vCenter appliance, automatic network configuration fails, the vCenter console will display “No networking detected” in red. To configure networking: 1. Access th...

Deploy OVF directly from local datastore / SAN
When deploying OFV files vCenter allows for either browsing files locally on the client or specifying a URL. The latter can be handy when one wants to deploy an OVF file stored somewhere on the VMw...
Fullscreen with rdesktop / rdesktop-vrdp
It’s extremely useful to use rdesktop (or virtualbox the rdesktop-vrdp) for RDP connections to Windows hosts from your Linux workstation. This is how to use the fullscreen mode: jonas@erebus:~$ rd...
Dell OME plugin install on ESXi 5.1
First SCP the installation file to the ESXi box and SSH over to issue the below command for install: /tmp/OME_ESXi_plugin # esxcli software vib install -d /tmp/OME_ESXi_plugin/OM-SrvAdmin-Dell-Web-...