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Haven't seen the topic come up in here yet - Any sessions a must attend? Was digging through the catalog today looking for NSX and HCI, but most of what I'm finding are set for Thursday and I'll be on the flight home already. I'm more interested in the technical discovery sessions, saving...

Running esxi 5.5, deployed a server 2012 template to host virtual center on. Problem is, the template is vmx-10 and I can't manage settings to change the NIC backing without using the web client. I can't use the web client because virtual center is not yet available. Since I'm in deployment...

Something we're thinking about rolling out in our production environment, just got it running in the lab yesterday and it only took us a few hours to block ourselves out of vcenter with a deny any any rule... Closest recovery I could find was a blog article indicating that you could invoke...

I'm at my wits end here, trying to build a storage system primarily for CIFS to house system backups and media files for streaming across the home network. I've tried Nexenta and FreeNas, both with very dissapointing read speeds of <1MBps, we're talking 400-500k tops on a 1Gb link. Write...

I've acquired some emulex 4gb 1150 FC cards, and much to my disappointment I will not be able to use them in my freenas box to present storage an ESXi server. Curious to know if anyone has an opensource/free storage system I could pursue that has support for FC, this is for a lab environment.

I'm in need of a way to track idle desktop sessions, this information is useful to me as a performance metric but management is asking for a way to be able to audit remote workers. We started tracking screensaver timeouts, but this information is not useful since locking a workstation does...

I've been diving into the world of voip and have an asterisk server set up at home... this server handles two inbound routes, one for our home line and another for my office line. I want any after hours office calls to go straight to voicemail... I finally figured out how to set up time...

Does anyone have an effective method of blocking a majority of spammers from within apache? I noticed there's a spamhaus module that appears to be deprecated, which is a shame because I think it's exactly what I need. I'm basically trying to protect a VPS running apache from spammers being...

Started tinkering around with the idea of a simple (cheap) battery backup for my dsl modem. Can anyone tell me if this is a bad idea for longevity of the device or other obvious flaw? I have a 12v 8.0Ah rechargeable battery traditionally used for portable marine electronics, I'm feeding it...

When I view the ports within a VDS port group and start monitoring port state, I'm seeing an alarming count within the 'Dropped - egress packets' field. Ingress also has a count, but not nearly as high. This on a majority of my active VMs. When I view the details within the networking view...

Has anyone been able to successfully deploy a server 2012 template & use the vmware guest customization? I am having inconsistent results with it. Using EFI firmware as recommended, it seems as if the customization only works when it feels like it. I have gotten it to work using the e1000e...

Looking for feedback on how you guys load balance your view security & view connection servers in smaller environments. Anyone using a virtual load balancer? This project is for less than 120 desktops.

Running into a slight issue with assigning user privileges to a vApp... Domain\User is assigned VM Power user permissions at the top level of the vApp & set to propogate. When launching the VIC, they can only see the VM's that are within said vApp & not the vApp itself. I don't mind this...

I have a need for an on-demand streaming solution for my php based CMS. I'd like to establish certain membership levels within said CMS that will be able to access these on-demand streams, obviously prohibit guest or non-authenticated members from pulling those streams. I've poked around...

Trying to standardize on our vmdk formatting here and finding online documentation to be a bit lacking as far as recent vsphere & storage array abilities. Assuming you have an array that performs thin provisioning (LUNs via FC, no NFS here), what is your preference for a thick vmdk? I've...

Currently, all of my users connect to a vmware linked clone desktop through a samsung zero client. Their profiles are managed through view persona, and it works quite well as far as their desk zero client is concerned. Now, introduce a handful of conference rooms that I'm aiming to replace...

I picked up this board over the weekend in hopes to convert my power hungry freenas server over to something less than 100w. This little guy did the trick, sitting around 58w with 6x1tb drives spinning... but I'm having an issue with the pci-e slot picking up my quad port nic. I've tried...

I am running sharepoint 2010 on a windows 2008 server. Internally, users would like to access it through the hostname 'webportal' vs through the servername 'server01'. This was easy enough to do through a host record on our internal DNS, I also created a site binding for 'webportal' though I...

The environment I am currently working in is heavily virtualized, with user desktops soon to be 100% out of vmware view. I have taken and passed the VCP510, and am thinking about pursuing the 510-DT as it directly relates to my job function. Has anyone sat the 510-DT, and how do you feel it...

Recently, i've gotten the ambition to start downsizing my equipment - in terms of physical form factor. I need to sell off what I currently have in order to make it happen, most of which is currently used in a home ESXi cluster. Here's what I'm looking to get rid of (Condition is like New unless...

I recently started a home AD deployment, and decided I wanted to use a public domain name that I have registered (.com address). I have a website hosted through a reseller account (hostgator) with my own set of nameservers for it. Everything is working fine as far as that goes. However...

I would like to test out SRM in my lab environment, I am not concerned about performance as much as I am about doing a proof of concept right now. I currently have two physical ESXi servers (no local disk) attached to a 6tb iscsi (freenas) server. My thought is to build a virtual 2 node esxi...

My company is the final stages of choosing a new storage vendor, and it's been isolated to Compellent or NetApp. Without introducing the aspect of upfront cost (though for this consideration they are fairly close), which would you choose and why? I know this is a loaded question and the...

I've been doing a bit of testing with my new storage system, and it seems I've put myself into a bind the last time I tried to export a pool and mark the disk as new. The good thing, it was intentional.. but unfortunately the process didn't finish and it seems my disks are still otherwise...

I'm in the final stages of setting up my storage server. Primary purpose is to serve up iscsi for my home esxi lab, but I'd also like to use it as a reliable CIFs source & stow all of my photos/video to it. I will have 6x1tb drives in raidz and am planning on an SSD for ZIL. Thinking about...