Server Core allow MMC firewall

Netsh advfirewall firewall set rule group=“remote administration” new enable=yes

Clustering in VM Ware

Add a shared disk,

vmkfstools -d thick -a lsilogic -c 10G /vmfs/volumes/vmfs001/SCC1S.vmdk

Set the SCSI adapters to a new slot and different SCSI ID's,

IE 1:0 and 1:1

Set the SCSI adapter to virtual

These Days

So there are many days you will have in your life, some good some bad. I've been lucky enough to have a few days where it has just has panned out. So, in life, you are occasionally lucky enough to have these days when you lay your shit down, and that shit be good, that good shit be happening.

I am lucky enough to have a new job. I am now a "Microsoft Implementations Engineer'. To put this into perspective. I've jumped from dick all experience, to a 3rd line role within 10 months. Yowza!!.

My new boss summed it up, by the way, this is nearly verbatim. "We've put a lot of faith in you, you better get reading those books this weekend!"

Bring it.

Bugger

So I'm going to be made redundant and I have 24 cans of premium german lager at home.

You does teh math

DHCP Server

Install dhcpd
Overwrite /etc/dhcpd.conf with dhcpd.conf.sample
Edit dhcpd.conf with your settings
Bind to an adapter in /etc/sysconfig/network/dhcpd if you need to
Start the service, and monitor any errors in /var/log/messages to prune any errors.

SCSI Drivers in XP

Been kicking my ass for a day now. Installing XP in ESXi, kept bumming out when adding the SCSI drivers. Make sure that the XP install disc/image has OEM PREINSTALL set to no with something like nLite. All is good.

ESXi install with CPUID value error

During boot, hit shift o, and a screen will appear with advanced options at the bottom. Enter 'nocheckCPUIDlimit' and press enter, the system will boot. After boot, connect to the server using the VI client and modify advanced options, boot. There will be an option to force CPUID check. Uncheck that and apply and the server will boot without intervention.

Ripped shamlessly from the vmware forums.