Month: February 2012

10 things to know about vsphere 5.0 installation and set-up process

Hardware requirements should be met before staring the installation process. Installation options should be identified. Locate ESXi installer and media location to boot the server For PXE installer booting, verify the network infrastructure is enabled for PXE booting. Choosing the method of Installing ESXi using the interactive mode, Auto deploy or using the script. Setting up… Read More 10 things to know about vsphere 5.0 installation and set-up process

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Monitor website availability on regular timings

Below Script can be used for reporting the website status and if any error message occurred. This script is completely self explanatory and comments have been added wherever necessary.# Setting up Email parameters$emailFrom = “howtoscript@hts.com”$emailTo = ” howtoscript@hts.com “$smtpServer = “smtp server or its ipaddress”$smtp = new-object Net.Mail.SmtpClient($smtpServer)#This values can be customize and also Sleep can be used for pausing the… Read More Monitor website availability on regular timings

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Best Practices in running the VM roles on windows Azure.

10 Simple things to check when deploying VM Role into Windows Azure Highly recommended to use Hyper-V to create the VHD file Currently only Windows 2008 R2 is supported Make sure you have installed VMRole Integration component which is available under the SDK tools.  Verify that you have ran the sysprep before uploading the VHD  Create a local… Read More Best Practices in running the VM roles on windows Azure.

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