Another interesting one for folks. This is the first time I’ve seen this, as most of my storage comes off of my SAN. We started getting alerts for virtual machines, and after pulling up the vm console, noticed it was black. Tried to reset the vm, but the reset task just sat ‘In Progress’...
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Sending Syslog to vMa, and What Comes Next
Having more than a handful of servers to deal with, it is more than a little helpful to have logs in one place. That way, you can log in to one location, and parse through logs to your heart’s content. One thing that gets a bit difficult to do, however, is event correlation. Sure,...
Moved Servers
After 1 year, I decided I wanted a few more features than the basic wordpress.com was allowing me, so I’ve moved. Takes a lot more than I initially thought, but I’m about as setup as I’m going to be. At least for now. Hopefully, all goes well, and I don’t mess up links. My...
VMwise one year down, a few more to go
May 10, 2011. It is now officially one year since this blog first started. Along the way, I’ve posted a few issues, a few opinions, some news, and hopefully helped a few folks along the way. I’d like to say this is only the beginning, and I guess I can only go up from...
HP C7000 iLO FW Update
Here’s another script to update iLO firmware. Thanks to Zach for this one also. This script will update iLO firmware on blades 2 – 7, pulling the firmware image from a ftp server. HPONCFG 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 << end_marker <RIBCL VERSION=”2.0″> <LOGIN USER_LOGIN=”adminname” PASSWORD=”password”> <RIB_INFO MODE=”write”>...
HP C7000 iLO user add
Recently, we went through and configured DPM in our environment. If you’re trying to do the same, you’ll note it’s a bit cumbersome to try to create a user account on each individual iLO system, which is a pre-requisite for DPM. Here’s a quick script you can run on the OA, after you’ve connected...
Restarting vCenter again?
Great! I’m in the middle of migrating off virtual machines to try to resolve several host-based infrastructure issues we’ve been having lately, and I lose my connection to vCenter. Or rather, it becomes so slow, it’s basically useless. So, I have to log on to the vCenter server virtual machine, see that the service...
Passed the VCAP4-DCD, or did I?
I received an email around 6:00 PM EST, that thanked me for participating in the VMware Beta test program, and informed me that my score report was attached. I thought to myself, thank goodness. I took this test in November of 2010, and was getting a bit antsy waiting for two months for the...
Post VMworld 2010 Summary
It’s been almost two weeks since VMworld 2010 in San Francisco, and it’s taken me some time to get back into the rhythm of normalcy. I must say, it did not disappoint. This has to be one of the best VMworld’s I’ve been to thus far. I planned to write posts during the show,...
VCAP-DCA And the Results Are. . .
Very disappointing. After waiting for a few months, I found out late on Friday night, that there are no results. We have compiled the results from the VCAP DCA beta exam and are providing you with an opportunity to retake your exam at VMworld 2010 in San Francisco /ME: What were the results? The...
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