Problem: The Windows 2019 Core Server OS was not showing the 4 Ethernet ports (1 Cisco MLOM card) Solution: Download drivers from Cisco website: Mount Drivers on ISO via KVM in CIMC (H:/ drive in my case) Log into Windows 2019 Core Server and run following:
Month: October 2021
Add LACP Interface and VLAN via CLI in Windows 2019 Core
In this guide I will show you to create an LACP bond and then a VLAN using this bond as a parent. I will bonding 2 x 25Gb interfaces (VIC-MLOM-eth0 and VIC-MLOM-eth1) which are being passed through via Cisco C220 M5 rackmount blade In Powershell : The above shows the two NIC names im interested Read More…
Create iSCSI volume with Parted and Format with XFS
This is a follow on from the following post: http://www.jordansphere.co.uk/add-iscsi-target-with-multipathing-in-rocky-8/ In this guide I will be formatting a 100TB XFS volume List block devices Output NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT sda 8:0 1 29.7G 0 disk └─sda1 8:1 1 29.7G 0 part sdb 8:16 0 222.6G 0 disk ├─sdb1 8:17 0 600M 0 Read More…
Add iSCSI Target with Multipathing in Rocky 8
In this guide I will be setting up a Rocky Linux 8 machine a Veeam Repository – which connects to back end storage (10.9.9.241). The guide assumes the backup storage and ACLs etc have all been set up. Install initiator Utilities Install Mulipathd Copy the multipath config Enable multipathd Set up the multipathing in the Read More…
pVLANs and NSX-T VDS Switch Bug
Problem When attempting to add Primary and Isolated VLANs on an NSX-T (3.1.3) Enabled VDS switch in vsphere 7.0 environment we got the following error: Unable to set Pvlan Map: Status(bad0004)= Busy Resolution There is no resolution at the time of writing but this will be fixed in version 3.2 of NSX-T Edit 06/12/2021 – Read More…
Extend GPT iSCSI volume in Rocky 8
In this example I will be extending an XFS based iSCSI volume called Veeam_Repo_01 from 40TB to 55TB Firstly in the back end storage increase the volume On Rocky – Recan the initiator. Output: sdc 8:32 0 55T 0 disk└─Veeam_Repo_01 253:3 0 40T 0 mpath└─Veeam_Repo_01p1 253:4 0 36.4T 0 part /BACKUPsdd 8:48 0 55T 0 Read More…
Change Timezone in Rocky 8
The following quick guide will show how to change the timezone. In this example my Rocky * machine is set to America/New York but I need to change it to Europe/London. Confirm current timezone My output showed: lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 38 Oct 18 05:40 /etc/localtime -> ../usr/share/zoneinfo/America/New_York To list all timezones Once you have Read More…
Configure NTP Client on Rocky 8
The following quick-guide describes how to install and configure NTP Client on a Rocky or CentOS 8 OS. Check to see if Chrony is already installed If it is not installed run: Edit Chrony config file Replace pool 2.pool.ntp.org iburst with your desired NTP server eg (pool uk.pool.ntp.org) Restart chronyd service You will also need Read More…
Configure HAProxy SSL Passthrough
This quick guide explains how to install HAProxy with SSL passthrough on a Centos/Rocky 8 OS. This is specific to a NSX-T Manager install but can be used/tweaked for any environment Install HA proxy Configure haproxy with front and back end servers Add following entries Note: I was able to use balance source in the Read More…