Issue I needed to remove a disk from a disk pool on an E-series 5700 (http://www.jordansphere.co.uk/remove-drives-from-pool-in-netapp-e-series/ ). This can only be done via SMCLI – which i’d never used before. Here are few useful steps and commands I found on the way. Steps Firstly I needed to install the E-Series Santricity Manager (despite the my Read More…
Author: Jordansphere
I currently work for an ISP on the South coast as a Senior Engineer. I mainly spend my time maintaining the Cloud. CCNA, VCP4/5, VCP-Cloud
DFW Blocking Rule when Attempting to Get to Load Balancer IP
Setup: Under the same Single Segment in NSX-t 3.1.3 I have a VM attempting to get to the LB. Source VM: 10.1.98.77 Target LB: 10.1.98.72–Member A: 10.1.98.68–Member B: 10.1.98.69 Issue: When trying to connect from source (10.1.98.77) to LB (10.1.98.72) on port 443. If I attempted to lockdown the firewall rule from source IP (10.1.98.77 Read More…
Create New vCloud Director Certificates from PFX
Below are the steps to extract all the information required from a PFX file (CompleteCert.pfx) to update the certs in a keystore for Vcloud Director. Note: In this example the CA has changed so i have changed the Intermediate and Root Certs. The following steps are carried out from a Centos 7 vcloud director cell Read More…
Remove Drives from Pool in Netapp E-Series
Problem I needed to remove a drive from a Pool in a Netapp E5760 in order to be a hot spare Solution You need to do this via SMCLI or Run the query from Santricity. As you have to install Santricity for access to SMCLI, I just used the Manager software to run the query. Read More…
Error: Can’t Have a Partition outside the disk
Problem: When trying to install ESXi on a new UCS M5 Blade I got the following error partedUtil failed with message : Error: Can’t have a partition outside the disk! Resolution You will need to format the disks – in my case SD cards. Go to the Blade -> Inventory -> Local Storage -> Select Read More…
Make Subordinate Primary UCS
Problem: After a successful firmware upgrade of a UCSM and Fabric Interconnects (4.0.4 -> 4.1.3), Fabric B continued to be primary. I wanted to fail this back over. Solution: To make the Fabric A the primary again, SSH to Fabric B and use the following commands:
DDBoost Account Locked
Problem Veeam backups starting failing with an authentication issue to our Data Domain. Solution Upon investigation it appears the DDBoost account was locked. This appears to have been reset to 90 days after a recent upgrade. 1) SSH to Data Domain and log in as sysadmin account 2) Run following command: As you see it Read More…
Add Gateway to NetAPP SVM
To add a default route to an SVM after creation run the following command: network route create -vserver [VSERVER] -destination 0.0.0.0/0 -gateway {defaultgw_IP] eg network route create -vserver mySVM01-destination 0.0.0.0/0 -gateway 192.168.1.254
svMotion with Veeam CDP
Problem: svMotion is not supported with CDP replicas as it creates many extra files that are left behind thus breaking the replication. Solution: Currently the only workaround is: Remove VM from job/policy Remove replica vm from vsphere Manually move the files from datastore to datastore Re-add the vm in vsphere Re-add the vm in the Read More…
Change MTU on NIC Adapters in Windows 2019 Core
Problem: I had an issue where I set the NIC, Team and VLAN to be MTU 9000 but I still couldn’t get jumbo frames working on the interfaces. Solution: There is an extra set step required which involves increasing the MTU on the adapter. In this example I have 4 port Cisco MLOM card that Read More…