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Win2012 Server Core: GUI installation

powershell Install-WindowsFeature Server-Gui-Mgmt-Infra,Server-Gui-Shell -Restart -Source wim:d:\sources\install.wim:2 to check for the correct source wim file: Get-windowsimage –imagepath d:\sources\install.wim the volume license ISO has the following images included: 1: enterprise core 2: enterprise with gui 3: datacenter core 4: datacenter with gui

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VMware: NFS datastore handling on commandline

list nfs datastores esxcfg-nas -l restore nfs datastores esxcfg-nas -r delete nfs datastores: esxcfg-nas -d myDatastore or esxcli storage nfs remove -v myDatastore add nfs datastores: esxcfg-nas -a myDatastore -o nas-ip -s /vol/volume VMware KBs: KB1005057 KB1029301

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VMware: restarting management agents

on ESXi: /sbin/services.sh restart on ESX: service mgmt-vmware stop service vmware-vpxa stop service vmware-vpxa start service mgmt-vmware start

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always start vSphere client in English (or German)

edit the VMware vSphere Client icon and add the parameter -locale: “C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\Infrastructure\Virtual Infrastructure Client\Launcher\VpxClient.exe” -locale en-US other locales are: de-DE en-GB fr-FR  

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Brocade SAN Switch Commands

some usefull Brocade SAN Switch commands: Settings tsclockserver <ip>: set NTP server for time synchronization. theoretically only needed on one switch… (Bug in Firmware 6.2 !) tsclockserver LOCL: disable NTP server tstimezone: to set the timezone. for Switzerland use Zurich: … Continue reading

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