When troubleshooting VMware related problems, you may want to familiarize yourself with some common ESXCLI commands you can run in the shell of your Host. This post is going to equip you with the basics of getting around and becoming comfortable with some common commands to gain insight into your ESXi Host. Note the ESXi…
Trouble Shooting Virtual Machines – The Basics
This post will focus on the virtual machine from a VMware perspective. First we have to start off with the always faithful ESXTOP, lets dig in. The command is of course “esxtop”, so with that being said, the question mark (?) is your friend if you ever need some assistance. This Command / Utility is…
Customizing VMware ISO Images
Tonight’s Post is going to go through the process of removing that particular VMware vib that’s prohibiting you from your ESXi installation. Earlier today I received an error stating that I had 2 vibs that were not compatible, so since its been a while since I customized an ISO image I decided to document the…
VMware vs. Hyper V
This purpose of this post is to set the stage for why you would recommend a particular hypervisor in your logical design for a virtualization implementation. So lets get right to it at a high level. Facts only Microsoft Hyper V installed on the Nano Server edition would be only appropriate to even compare in…
Cisco UCS Firmware Management
The process of upgrading Cisco UCS Firmware is pretty straight forward, this short post will go through the configuration in a step by step fashion. You will need to have admin access to UCSM as well as Cisco account to download the associated firmware bundles. In this example we will walk through a Cisco UCS…
Cisco MDS Zoning Basics
This post is going to provide the basic day to day task in the FC SAN Fabric. The zoning examples shown below are from the Cisco MDS family of switches. The below example is configuring a multiple target, multiple initiator scenario, including two HBA’s from a storage (target) array and two HBA’s from a Server (initiator). Configuration…
Collecting NetApp Volume Information leveraging PowerShell
Microsoft PowerShell Basics When you just want to quickly locate a volume or group of volumes by the name or even part of the name as well as the associated size quickly, this post will get you there. Example: Get-NCVol Get a list of all volumes and filter on volume name Example: Get-NcVol | where…
Technical Architecture Design – Intro
The Conceptual, logical & Physical designs are the building blocks to a successful technical implementation, these three areas of concentration are the secret sauce to integrating innovation into your organization. Without the development of these documents you’re inadvertently accepting several innate risk. This will be a four part post that will explore all of the…
EMC VNX Basic Administration Explained
The Step by Step Guide Leading off with the Snapsot Creation Fist lets get logged into EMC Unisphere and get started Snapshots -Create snapshot Storage Tab – select storage group Locate the Lun – right click and select create snapshot -Restore snapshot Data Protection Tab Locate Lun to restore – select snapshot – select restore -mount…
When you can’t access the NetApp Service Processor (SP)
The Service Processor (SP) is a remote management device that enables you to access, monitor, and troubleshoot a NetApp node remotely Service Processor (SP) Walk through Before you can access the SP of a node, the SP network must be configured and enabled Verify User Access Example: Test-C1::> security login show -application service-processor Vserver: Test-C1…