Interesting as it talks about both ZFS and ESXi servers with ECC memory: Best Buy Guides (BBGs) – mux’ blog – Tweakblogs – Tweakers.
Archive for 2014
Best Buy Guides (BBGs) – mux’ blog – Tweakblogs – Tweakers
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/03/23
Posted in *nix, ESXi5, ESXi5.1, ESXi5.5, Power User, VMware, VMware ESXi, ZFS | Leave a Comment »
Keen IO – The API for Custom Analytics; store lots of events later perform visualizations and transformations
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/03/23
On my research list.
For massive event storage and data analysis: Keen IO – The API for Custom Analytics.
–jeroen
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Windows command-line: Finding default routes and setting their metric
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/03/23
When you have multiple network connections, sometimes you want to prefer one to be used as “default” (i.e. because it has higher speed or lower latency).
Windows already tries to accommodate for that by assigning “metrics” to your network connections. They depend on the kind of network (wired over wireless) and speed of the connection.
To see the current default network routes and their metrics, you use the route print command and filter it with findstr like this:
route print | findstr /C:"Metric" /C:" 0.0.0.0"
The “0.0.0.0” string is to filter out the default routes, and “Metric” includes the header line.
For one of my XP machines, the result is this:
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| Network Destination Netmask Gateway Interface Metric | |
| 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 192.168.71.1 192.168.71.28 10 | |
| 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 192.168.171.1 192.168.171.140 10 |
Now, even though both metric are 10, my 192.168.71.1 gateway is much slower than my 192.168.171.1 gateway, so I want to prefer the last one. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted in Power User, Windows, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows Vista, Windows XP | Tagged: command-line, default gateway, default routes, network connections, route change, route print | Leave a Comment »
VMware ESXi 5.5 LSI MegaRaid 9271: Firmware Update / Driver & CIM Provider Installation – VMware – IT-News, Tutorials, Reviews, Gaming – skV-NET
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/03/23
Soon I’m going to update the ESXi 5.1 with the youngest LSI 9260 driver and CIM from MegaRAID 9260-8i RAID Controller Card | SAS RAID | LSI.
–jeroen
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How to disable automatic search for network printers and folders in Windows XP
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/03/23
Gosh I hate it when on a Windows machine your printer list is like a 100 when visiting a couple of clients and friends.
Disable this seems easy How to disable automatic search for network printers and folders in Windows XP, but note there is no “Advanced” button so better follow the steps at Windows XP – How do I Disable the auto Network Printer Ins.. – Network Printer – Windows XP.
Now lets find out how to do that in Windows versions beyond XP (:
–jeroen
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ESXi 5.1 and rsync – damiendebin.net.
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/03/23
Interesting: ESXi 5.1 and rsync – damiendebin.net. It works in ESXi 5.5 too, and the French link below has a version that runs on ESXi 4.
Now you can do these forms of backup:
- ESXi: Hot Replication of Running Virtual Machines – Cascadeo Corp..
- VMware ESX 4: sauvegarde d’une VM sans VSphere CLI, avec SSH, Rsync, Snapshot – Pegasus45.
(Google translated title: VMware ESX 4: backup of a VM without vSphere CLI with SSH, Rsync, Snapshot – Pegasus45.) Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted in *nix, ESXi4, ESXi5, ESXi5.1, ESXi5.5, Power User, VMware, VMware ESXi, wget | 6 Comments »
ESXi: for high speed copying from ESXi 4.1 to ESXi 5.1 use @Veeam FastSCP 3.0.3, not Veeam Backup and Replication 6.
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/03/23
I had to move a bunch of stuff from an old ESXI 4.1 server to a newer ESXi 5.1 server.
For that I used a Windows XP VM on the new ESXI 5.1 server that had two different 1 gigabit network connections so it could run full speed.
Speed comparison for 60 gigabytes of VMs:
- 1 hour using Veeam FastSCP
- 10+ hours using Veeam Backup and Replication v6.
I used both settings for both tools: Read the rest of this entry »
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WinSCP installer error because WinSCP site thinks wget can parse JavaScript.
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/03/22
If your downloaded WinSCP install ever throws this error, and you cannot find the cause on the WinSCP forums, then this is probably the reason:
The caption of the error message should be enough: Windows thinks it is a 16-bit MS-DOS program, not a Windows installer.
This means that the install download went wrong. In my case, I downloaded it through this wget command:
wget -m -np http://winscp.net/download/winscp552setup.exe
At first I thought that WinSCP has a referrer check, so this is the command that would work (similar to wget direct download with referer: SpeedFan):
wget -m -np --referer=http://winscp.net/eng/download.php http://winscp.net/download/winscp552setup.exe
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KB2934207 A notification about the end of Windows XP support
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/03/22
Just in case you need to stay with XP for a while (for instance because you have hardware where the vendor still has no drivers for more modern Windows versions), you might want to block KB2934207 A notification about the end of Windows XP support.
As of March 5th, this “high priority” KB2934207 update installs a notification screen remembering Windows XP will be End of Support at 20140408 (about 2 weeks from now).
If you do keep Windows XP, then make sure you have good protection for it (even watch that closer than you would on more current systems).
–jeroen
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Naming Schemes (networks, computers, projects, etc)
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/03/22
Interesting site: Naming Schemes.
Related, I found:
- [WayBack] RFC 1178 – Choosing a name for your computer
- [WayBack] Computer Naming Conventions Practices
- List of figures in Greek mythology – Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- [WayBack] Robot names – naming robots and androids – NameRobot
- [WayBack] Robot name generator
I’m going to need to name a few things soon, and these are lists I like in a sort of decreasing order: Read the rest of this entry »
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 