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...
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Emulex Bios Boot Target / Device Limit
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...
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”>...
DPM and VUM
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...
DPM thoughts
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...
When a Reconnect is Not Enough
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...
puttycm making life easier for the admin
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...
Things I Want to Remember
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...
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