6 Nov

Free apps you cant live without as a sysadmin (Part 1)

Posted by admin in Apps, Windows |

The first apps i would like to mention is mRemote. mRemote is a multi-tab remote connections manager. It supports RDP, VNC, ICA, SSH, Telnet, Http/s and Rlogin. I am using it for RDP to administrate windows servers and VNC to remote clients.

mremote

5 Nov

Network problems after virtual hardware upgrading Windows 2008 Server

Posted by admin in VMWare, Windows |

After I upgraded from ESX 3.5 to 4.0 I also upgraded the virtual hardware from V4 to V7. That meaning the some of the virtual hardware in the vm had to be reinstalled. In Windows 2008 server it installed a new NIC called “Local Area Connection 2″ with the E1000-driver. Some services like DNS did not like that. I fixed it by adding another NIC (VMXNET3) and adding the former IP. Then I deleted the E1000-NIC.

4 Nov

VMware tools will not update/install on a Windows 2008 Server VM

Posted by admin in VMWare, Virtualization, Windows |

I recently upgraded to Vsphere an began upgrading VMware tools. I had a problem on a Windows 2008 VM, that would not install the new version of VMware tools. I could not uninstall the old version either. I found this solution.

1) Switch to the CD-ROM with the VMware Tools ISO mounted.
2) Run setup.exe /c to do a manually removal of the registry keys from the previous VMware Tools version
3) Re-run the setup.