The ramblings of a computer geek
VMware gives the capability to “snapshot” a powered on or powered off virtual machine, preserving its state at a particular point in time. Although this is a very useful feature, is it not intended as a long term backup, archive or for example a pre-upgrade/change state backup. A snapshot allows an administrator to create a … Read more
The Palo Alto Firewall GUI is really slick, but sometimes its handy to create using the CLI, perhaps if you have a large number of changes that need to be made at once. Within this example, we’ll create a zone, then an Interface (on an Aggregate Interface), give it an IP address, apply a management … Read more
We had an issue where a recent Windows update broke the Exchange Server, luckily booting into safe mode and removing it resolved the issue, however although the databases mounted okay, there was one that did not. We attempted the typical ESEUTIL steps because it was reporting “dirty shutdown”, and got the database back to a … Read more