Short answer – YES For the long answer read on …. Ever wondered why a good quality computer power supply costs Rs.3000 and upwards whereas you can get a Cabinet+PSU for 1000 Rs. What is the difference ? Cheap PSU does not include the the following to save costs AC Filter and Transient Suppressor [...]

Here I’m showing steps to hide a user account in Windows 7. The user account can be hidden from welcome screen but can be used while sharing etc. Steps Create a new account from User Accounts Make the following changes in registry Goto HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\SpecialAccounts\Userlist Create a new “KEY”  if “SpecialAccounts” is not listed, under special [...]

The stock firmware in most of the wireless routers are severely limiting in features and performance. To make the most out of your router, you can switch to alternate firmwares like DD-WRT, OpenWRT, Tomato etc. However the alternate firmwares are in a constant state of development, which are mostly done in the spare time of [...]

  So, it’s been almost six months since the launch of Google+. Back in June and July we were all signing up and creating ‘circles’, but how much have we used it since? More importantly for owners of small businesses, how much do commercial organizations and businesses use the service? Research shows that the idea [...]

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Here is the script to collect vmware virtual machines details and export to an excel (.csv) using  vSphere PowerCLI commands. This will help Vmware administrator to take a report of Memory, CPU usage,  Data store, HDD space allocation, Host server, Guest OS etc..  here we are using command “get-vm” and “Select-Object” to filter the properties [...]

VMware vSphere PowerCLI is a Powerful tool to automate the vmware infrastructure management. Here is the list of object names which you can use with “Get-vm” command. This object name will help you to create scripts with specific parameters like Host, Power State, CPU etc. Its also helpful to generate VM list (Inventory). Following list [...]

It is better to try out window 8 on a VHD as the performance hit will be only on the HDD, rest everything will be on the actual hardware. Windows 8 Download link To install windows8 we can either burn a DVD or create a flash drive and install from it, here I’m using a [...]

Here we are explaining how to configure ESXi server and Foundry Bigiron  switch for Link aggregation ( LACP ).  It is known as NIC teaming In VMware virtualization. Make sure that you have a Esxi configuration backup before the changes. There are different type of network load balancing mechanisms. here we are using “Route based [...]

How to backup Here is the command to Backup ESXi server configuration to your local computer. You should have access to the ESXi server using  vSphere CLI tool. This will help administrator to schedule ESXi backup using Scripts. Download vSphere CLI tool from here. Open the CLI console and run following command. Tool located at [...]