After our last audit, there were a couple of areas that were found to be lacking, in terms of proper identification and monitoring. One such deficit, was the lack of a way to properly monitor when permissions are changed in our environment. As our environment has grown, we’ve had to give custom permission sets...
After having gone through a few different trainings (Cisco/RHEV/Hyper-V/Oracle OVM), I finally got back to some good ‘ole VMware learning. Went through some docs, and decided to go after VCP5. Glad to say that I did pass, and that the new Version 5 exam is much better a “test” than version 4 was, at...
Just ran into an interesting, read annoying, limitation with using Emulex HBA’s in my environment. I haven’t been able to find official confirmation of this in a whitepaper or document out there, so take it as my experience, and not necessarily the same in every case. I was trying to upgrade some 3.5 boot...
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”>...
Another little tidbit of DPM goodness. In case you were not aware, as I was not, with DPM enabled, scanning host through VUM (VMware Update Manager) brings the entire cluster out of standby mode. I found this a bit surprising, but overall, it does make sense. The steps I’ve seen occurring are: Select host...
After a couple of weeks of running DPM to cut down on our power consumption, I’ve come out with a few thoughts. Naturally, I’m sharing. First, it is very cool to see this in action. Took a bit of time to validate each server could go down and come back up, but it is...
I’ve found myself having to follow these steps to repair a “disconnected” host several times and following several different operations. Instead of re-writing the steps multiple times in several different posts, I decided to use this one as a reference for any I write in the future. The steps below are last-resort type of...
For those who haven’t seen it in action. I would strongly recommend checking it out. By “it”, I mean putty connection manager or puttycm for short. Undoubtedly, every single person managing ESX or any type of *NIX these days is using, or has used putty. It’s great. It’s quick, works well, and does what...
There are many things I wished I could remember, and so I saved a link, or two, or three, along with some docs or pdf’s. Now, I wish I could remember where I had saved them, or what I had called them. It appears my organizational categorization seems to change weekly, or even daily...
