Do you work with networking devices but don’t have the money to shell out for a Opengear, Pele, or Tripplite serial console server? Fear not, Raspberry Pi is here! Home lab users and budget constrained Network Admins will enjoy this. For those who are unfamiliar with the Raspberry Pi (RPi for short), its a credit … Read more
My colleague Ashish Hanwadikar wrote a quick post on Linkedin on discovering ESX servers in the same subnet. Here is the post: “VMware ESX servers have SLP (Service Discovery Protocol) enabled by default making it easy to discover all ESX servers in a given subnet through any SLP client. For example, on linux, running the … Read more
With a lot of servers in my lab, I run into my fair share of ESX boot medium issues in the lab. Typically this exhibits weird issues where the ESX host is online, VMs are incredibly slow or completely hung and ping-able. The quickest way I would determine of the boot media (USB, SD card, … Read more
I saw a self-adhesive temperature strip in front of a rack when I was at a co-location center earlier last week where I thought I can really use in my lab. I have an Avtech room temperature probe in my lab that works great. Sensors everywhere, can monitor via web browser, automated email alerts, etc. … Read more
This is a cool thing I’ve found out: You can see the ESXi Direct Console User Interface (DCUI) via SSH! Normally you can see this yellow/gray console via monitor into your physical ESXi host, connect via IPMI/iDRAC/iLO, or via console when running a nested ESXi VM. There is not much real practical use out of … Read more