See here for the command line option when the management agent refuses to restart.
There are also some good links on the VMware community website for diagnosing VMware host connection problems – see here and here.
Restarting and diagnosing problems with the Management agents on an ESX or ESXi Server
September 6th, 2010Updating Recipient Policies and Address Lists for Exchange 2010 from Exchange 2003
September 3rd, 2010See a great write up here for upgrading Address Lists and Recipient Policies during the Exchange 2003 -> Exchange 2010 migration.
Resetting BIOS Password.
September 2nd, 2010CMOS De-Animator; 32bit and 64bit versions
Grab a copy from here.
CMOS De-Animator is a service utility which allows you to invalidate the checksum of your system’s CMOS memory, resetting all settings to default and clearing any stored BIOS passwords (if any) upon re-boot. The main advantage of my utility is, that it can work under every Windows operating system, and no administrator privileges should be normally required! The utility has no GUI – only a confirmation message to begin or exit, error handling messages and a success dialog box upon successful operation. The utility is very portable, no installation required.
VMware Disk Performance cont…
August 13th, 2010VMware Disk Performance – tracking with Virtual Center.
August 13th, 2010You can use Virtual Center to track performance by creating custom charts, you can see how here.
NFS and IP-Hash loadbalancing
August 10th, 2010Sample configuration of EtherChannel / Link aggregation (LACP) with ESX and Cisco/HP switches
August 10th, 2010This article describes concepts, limitations and sample configurations of link aggregation / NIC Teaming / LACP / Ether-Channel connectivity between ESX and Physical Network Switches, in particular, Cisco and HP.
A “Multivendor Post” to help our mutual NFS customers using VMware
August 10th, 2010Taken from Virtual Geek, see here for an excellent article on all things NFS.
Problem with Outlook 2003 and Exchange 2010
July 28th, 2010If you get the following error message after migrating over to Exchange 2010:
Cannot start Microsoft Office Outlook. Unable to open the Outlook window. The set of folders could not be opened.
It is because the default with Exchange 2010 is encrypted RPC traffic. This is easily rectified, you can find the encrption setting in MS Exchange mail properties under control panel for the PC. See here for more information.