Tim Phillips blog

In Scott Herold`s blog I found a very interesting article: How to remove FT from host without vCenter? Yes, I know, that it`s almost an unbelievable situation, but…

Let’s have a quick look at password policy in ESX Server:
esxcfg-auth –usepamqc=N1 N2 N3 N4 N5 match
where N1 is minimal length of password, which consists only of 1 class symbols (abcdef….)
where N2 is minimal length of password, which consists of 1 class symbols or 2 class symbols (ABCdef…)
where N3 is minimal amount of letters in password
where N4 is [...]

Everything is really simple! I need only 30 seconds to show it!
esxcfg-auth [ [ --enablead | --disablead ] [ --addomain= | --removedomain= ] [--addc= | --removedc= ] ]
where addomain|removedomain is name of domain, and  addc|removedc is DNS or IP address of domain controller. After that you need to create a user, who will be able to [...]

Today, in the 3d party of my “In a nutshell” story I`ll talk about VmWare High Availability: what it is, and how does it work.

Hi there! Today I`d like to offer you an article about high availability technologies, provided by VmWare: vMotion, HA and FT. vMotion – the technology allows to transfer VMs from one physical server to another while it`s working (analog of Live Migration in Windows Server Hyper-V R2). Also need to mention that vMotion uses advantages of [...]

Hi there! Today I would like to tell you how to simply backup your VMs to a remote tape device. Let`s say we have  the following configuration: 192.168.1.100 – Windows Server with tape device, 192.168.1.200 – ESX host, 192.168.1.201 and .202 – Windows based VMs. In this configuration we do not have to work with ESX at all. [...]

Hi there! Sorry, got no time to write. Few days ago I got an idea about series of Versus articles. The first one is VmWare ESXi vs MS Hyper-V, and the second one will be iSCSI: hardware vs software.
All my thoughts about VmWare vs MS are available under cut. So,VmWare`s footprint – 100 Mb, while [...]