Nice easy one, at command line enter this to stop any accounts from expiring their passwords:
NET accounts /MAXPWAGE:UNLIMITED
Welcome to the blog of mechanised.com
This blog is mainly a technical repository of information on Virtualisation tools and management for our hosting service.
Also for HP's Bladesystem that we use at both our datacentres.
Other articles are also included on .Net development and MS SQL Server as well as other interesting things we come across.
Friday, 18 October 2013
Thursday, 10 October 2013
Extending root RHEL physical partition and then the underlying LV
Bit fiddly this so reminder to myself:
- Boot into rescue mode from install DVD
- delete partition with fdisk
- recreate at same start to end of disk
- reboot
- back into rescue
- Then run these commands
pvresize /dev/sda2 (or 2nd partition on physical disk) lvextend /dev/mapper/*vg_lv* -l+100%FREE (for all the disk) resize2fs /dev/
mapper/*vg_lv* (to resize FS, may take a short while)
- Check volumes are ok with vgs/lvs
- Reboot to double check everything boots and mounts fine
Monday, 12 August 2013
PowerCLI Script to automatically setup vCenter 5.1 Alarm Email Notification
http://fixingitpro.com/2012/07/09/powercli-script-to-automatically-setup-vcenter-alarm-email-notification/
With versions for 5.0 and 5.1.
With versions for 5.0 and 5.1.
Wednesday, 29 May 2013
How to reduce Server 2008 R2 x64 winsxs folder
dism /online /cleanup-image /spsuperseded
This freed up about 4GB on the system drive, server was upgraded to SP1 so it removed plenty of pre-SP1 files.
This freed up about 4GB on the system drive, server was upgraded to SP1 so it removed plenty of pre-SP1 files.
Thursday, 9 May 2013
Get remote HP Server serial and product number
Couple of quick powershell commands will get you what you need:
Product number
gwmi win32_ComputerSystem | select OEMStringArray
Serial number
gwmi win32_bios | select SerialNumber
Product number
gwmi win32_ComputerSystem | select OEMStringArray
Serial number
gwmi win32_bios | select SerialNumber
Wednesday, 16 January 2013
Manually patching vSphere 5.0 free edition
As the free edition can't use update manager a quick and easy way to patch a single host is to download the latest patch from VMWare and upload to an accessible datastore then put the host into maintenance mode.
http://www.vmware.com/patchmgr/findPatch.portalThen enable SSH on the host, login and run:
esxcli software vib install -d /vmfs/volumes/datastore/patchfile.zipIt'll take a while and you should get results that say it's all been sucessful and you need to reboot.