I wrote an article about how to manage Windows Server 2016 TP remotely. Today I had some spare time to re-build my lab environment by the latest release of Windows Server 2016 Core. It’s easy to remotely manage a Windows Server in a domain, but a trick for workgroup Windows Server. Following is an improved … Read more
mRemoteNG is a very nice fork of open source remote tools. It supports multi-protocol. The official website says: mRemoteNG supports the following protocols:RDP (Remote Desktop/Terminal Server)VNC (Virtual Network Computing)ICA (Citrix Independent Computing Architecture)SSH (Secure Shell)Telnet (TELecommunication NETwork)HTTP/HTTPS (Hypertext Transfer Protocol)rloginRaw Socket Connections But one thing makes me frustrated is the mouse cursor disappeared randomly when … Read more
HPE 3PAR upgrading team usually sends a per-requisites before upgrading. One thing in the guide incorrect is the Windows 2012 required patch KB3046101. You may see error below when you install the path on Windows 2012 server. The update is not applicable to your computer The reason … Read more
You may need only 1 IP address for blade console in Cisco UCS Manager. You can follow Understanding “Management IP” of Cisco UCS Manager to configure it. You may see warning “Vlan ‘xxx’ resolved to unsupported VLAN ID” when you delete existing inbound and outbound IP pools if you are trying to clean up existing … Read more
Benefit of using Inbound Management IP Address for Cisco UCS Blades is it’s faster than outbound. But how to configure it?
I usually document my scripts in OneNote. It would be perfect if OneNote 2016 can highlight scripts. I found a nice plugin call “NoteHighlight2016” for OneNote 2016. It’s not only for 32 bit but also for 64 bit. You can download it in Github. The default codes are C#, SQL, CSS, JS, HTML, XML, JAVA, … Read more
You may see following errors in ‘info’ category of error messages in the Cisco UCS Manager after upgrading infrastructure firmware to 3.2.x. “x/xx on FI-A is connected by a unknown server device” This is bug documented in CSCvk76095. You have to reset the port on FI to fix it. Go to “Equipment” in Cisco UCS … Read more
You may see error message below when installing standalone patches on Windows Server 2016. The update is not applicable to your computer It may be caused be servicing stack update is not installed on the server. Please install KB4132216 before installing the patch.
The IP configuration of new provisoined Raspberry Pi struggled me a long time. I need to connect to a monitor so I login to system and configure IP address. The problem was I don’t have monitor. I only have a laptop. Last year, my old laptop dead. I connected the laptop monitor to a HDMI … Read more
There are two ways to know which network switch ports the network uplinks of Cisco UCS Fabric Interconnects are connected to. By CLI SSH to the Cisco UCS Manager. Connect to FI-A. # connect nxos a Show neighbor of network uplinks. # show cdp neighbor interface ethernet <port num> By PowerShell Make sure Cisco PowerTool … Read more
