Wednesday, April 29, 2020

[Errno 32] Broken pipe vibs = VMware_locker_tools-light


1. verify that the symbolic link the /locker folder must be linked to /store folder (locker -> /store)
2. rebuild /store folder from working hosts if /store is corrupted

Wednesday, April 22, 2020

Unconfigure Nutanix CVM

Change to Nutanix directory:

    nutanix@cvm$  cd /home/nutanix

Create .node_unconfigure file in the above directory

     nutanix@cvm$ touch .node_unconfigure

Restart genesis; this step will wipe all cluster data from the node

    nutanix@cvm$ genesis restart

Friday, November 15, 2019

Reconnect host script with password

# Get the hostsystem object for every host currently disconnected.
$VMhosts = Get-View -ViewType ‘Hostsystem’ ` -Property ‘name’ ` -Filter @{“Runtime.ConnectionState”=”disconnected”}
Foreach ($VMhost in $VMhosts) {
# Create a reconnect spec
$HostConnectSpec = New-Object VMware.Vim.HostConnectSpec
$HostConnectSpec.hostName = $VMhost.name
$HostConnectSpec.userName = ‘root’
$HostConnectSpec.password = ‘password’
# Reconnect the host
$taskMoRef = $VMhost.ReconnectHost_Task($HostConnectSpec,$null)
# optional, but i like to return a task object, that way I can
# easily integrate this into a pipeline later if need be.
Get-VIObjectByVIView -MORef $taskMoRef
}

Tuesday, October 15, 2019

Prevent Chrome killing your SSD by cache

xcopy /e "C:\Users\%username%\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome" "D:\Chrome"
del /s/f/q "C:\Users\%username%\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome"
rmdir /s/q "C:\Users\%username%\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome"
mklink /j "C:\Users\%username%\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome" "D:\Chrome"

Friday, October 11, 2019

Tuesday, September 10, 2019

Windows 10 Start Menu Search Fix

Open Regedit.exe Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Search

Check the following DWord Values:
"CortanaConsent" (It should have a value of '1')
"SearchboxTaskbarMode" (It should have a value of '1') 
"CortanaRegion" (It should have a value of 'US')