Work Things

vCenter server has no network connection after copying

After copying my vCenter server using ovftool, I watched it boot up and could see it said there was no configuration for eth1. When the MAC address changes, it will not update the config file automatically. Here's what to do: First of all go

Networking

Using ovftool to copy between hosts without vCenter Server

So, I needed to copy my vCenter Server Appliance over to another host. Obviously can't do that while it's switched on, and it takes care of the migrations in vSphere Client so what can we do? Download ovftool (I downloaded the Windows version) from

Networking

How to get system information from command line

Here's how to get the serial number/service tag or product name from a server or client PC. Open up command prompt and type: Serial number: wmic bios get serialnumber Product name: wmic csproduct get name

Networking

Easy way to add users to the local admin group

This shouldn't really be done, but if you need to for some legacy software or something, here's the command line tool to run (run cmd as administrator first): net localgroup administrators "DOMAIN\Domain Users" /add