I'm running ESXi 5.1.0 previously 5.0.1U or something.
I have a folder with all the files from a VM in it, how do I import this VM back into ESXi?
I administer a 3 stooges environment. Linux server hardware, Windows Server VMs, Mac clients.
My Mac clients RDC to a Windows 2008R2, each client has their own USB printer. The USB printer is forwarded to the RDC server. Currently we have a mix of printers and headaches all over the place. I'm wondering if anyone out there has a similar Windows/Apple mix and what printer they have running locally.
Alternatively, my suggestion was to purchase ultra cheap network printers and install directly to the Windows Server 2008. The environment is a store, sales reps have customers sit in a cozy environment and each rep wants their own printer.
Recommendations?
I have a CentOS 5.6 linux host running two Windows Server 2008 R2 VMs in Xen. The problem I'm having is the NIC card in any VM shows up as 100Mbps and not 1000Mbps. I would like to be able to give the VM a gigabit nic card. One of the VMs is a Windows file server and requires at least a gigabit connection to perform well.
tl;dr how do i create a gigabit NIC interface for a xen vm?
I recently moved my blog on to my company website and did a 301 redirect for all the content of my blog. However I want to redirect my the base url (www.oldblog.com) of my old blog to my new company blog (www.newblog.com/category/blog)
Currently all the content is mapped 1 to 1 using this htaccess file.
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.newblog.com/$1 [R=301,L]
</ifModule>
How do I map only the root to a different place?
I have a new client that is a hard position with their previous IT management company. The previous company is refusing to release any administrative usernames or passwords for any computer. This is only a problem for one, the PDC which is also a database server for their POS system. This is a crappy situation to be in.
I'm a linux guy by trade so I'm not super familiar with Windows environments. I know that I can image the disks and then load it into new hardware, I know I can boot from the "Offline Windows Password & Regitry Editor" boot cd and rewrite the admin password. However, what I don't know is if that admin account is only for the local machine or if it's for the domain as well.
I setup a test Windows Server 2008 R2 PDC at the office and proceeded to rewrite the password using the disk mentioned above. However, upon rebooting I still could not login to the local computer. The windows server wanted me to login as DOMAIN/Administrator and I only over wrote the password for LOCAL/Administrator. So I'm somewhat at loss on how to gain access to the system. How can I overwrite the password for the DOMAIN/Administrator account? Or the best question is, given complete physical access how does one gain access to a Windows Server Primary Domain Controller?
I'm beginning to deprecate my Apple XServers and thus MacOSX Server as well. I'm currently using AD for my authentication and authorization, and my Mac OS X Server box to hold the MCX records for the Mac clients.
Can I extend the schema in OpenLDAP on Ubuntu server to hold my MCX records? Perhaps I could grab the schemas from my MacOSX box and load them in...?
Ideas?
I have some DNS servers for our organization that was setup by my predecessor. He did not use the standard format for serial numbers, instead he used an odd format starting with 2033. What I want to do is replace his DNS servers with my own but am worried about changing the serial number to a "proper" format by using YYYYMMDDXX because it will be a lower number.
These are our public DNS servers, and I just want to make sure that there will be no issues in doing this. Has anyone had experience in this sort of transition?
I have a working Zabbix 1.8.2 server collecting data for our office and our colo facility. However the link between the colo and office is flaky. What I'm trying to do is setup a proxy on the colo side to have a 1 hour cache and relay the data to our primary server at the office. Our zabbix server is compiled from source and uses a mysql database
I've followed the instructions found in the zabbix documentation to compile the proxy using a sqlite3 database. I add the proxy to zabbix under Administration->DM->Proxies. The zabbix server "sees" the proxy because the "last seen" field is always under 60s. However when I assign a colo host to the proxy I stop receiving data from it. The colo host's zabbix_agentd.log file says this:
29343:20100622:124847 Timeout while answering request
29343:20100622:124847 Getting list of active checks failed. Will retry after 60 seconds
The zabbix_proxy.log says this.
2041:20100622:123131.760 Deleted 0 records from history [0.000994 seconds]
2028:20100622:124131.671 Error while receiving answer from server [ZBX_TCP_READ() failed
I also am unable to receive any SNMP data which is more important to me than the zabbix agent data. Has anyone had this problem before?
Zabbix Server OS: CentOS5.4 Zabbix Server Build: 1.8.2 from source Zabbix Proxy OS: CentOS5.4 Zabbix Proxy Build: 1.8.2 from source
P.S. The SQLite database on the zabbix proxy never gets any data written to it, it is identical to when I created it from the blank schema in zabbix-1.8.2/create/schema. (Yes I've checked the permissions)
I'm currently trying to migrate my DNS server from one Mac OS X Server to another. What I've done is rsync all the data in the /var/named folder. However Server Admin is not recognizing my zones, what file controls what server admin sees for DNS?
I'm getting ready for a large Snow Leopard migration and am having problems with the standard iSCSI initiator from globalSAN. After some research I found out that the initiator is just incompatible with Snow Leopard. My question is what iSCSI initiator are you using on your Mac OS X Server Box, please only answer if you are using Snow Leopard, I've already tried most iSCSI initiators for plain old Leopard.
Thank You.