Find what your Guest OS is on an ESX cluster
This is done on Windows, using Powershell and the VI Toolkit.
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WSUS Clients not checking in
On our ESX server, we deployed a bunch of Windows 2003 clients from a template, using the “Guest Customization” feature. When you do this, you get a new SID, but you don’t get a new SUSClientId. Since all the clients have the same SUSClientId, only one of them can talk to the WSUS server at a time. Looking around the internet, I found many different suggestions on how to fix the issue. I should say I found many suggestions for which reg key to delete. In the end, I only had to delete one. It worked for all ~37 of my machines, but it took two passes. Your mileage may vary.
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Mouse Scroll Wheel not working for Ubuntu 9 under VMware Fusion
In my /etc/X11/xorg.conf file, I had these (oddly, correct) setting for the mouse. They were originally commented out, but not below.
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VMware ESX 3 and vCenter 2 Log Location
VMware ESX 3.* Logfile Locations
HyperVisor Logs
- vmkernel – /var/log/vmkernel
- vmkwarning – /var/log/vmkwarning
- vmksummary – /var/log/vmksummary
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Various Time Scripts
To see the offset for a range of system
for X in `cat YourList.txt` do Y=`ssh $X -l root 'ntpdate -q 10.168.XX.XX' | awk -F, '{print $3}'` echo $X $Y done