Useful commands To reset a root password that has expired (and you still have the admin login) set user root password “new-pass” old-password “old-pass” To set the root password to never expire clear user root password-expiration To set no SSH timeout set cli-timeout 0
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
Find Serial Number of Shelf on Ontap v9.x
Problem: I needed to locate the serial number of a new shelf i’d just added. Solution: Login to the cluster via SSH and run the following command my-sannapp01::> storage shelf show
SSL VPN Tab Not Displaying when Logged in as Organization Administrator
vCloud version : 10.1.1.16282995 Problem: No organization administrators could view the SSL VPN tab. When logged in as full sysadmin then tab would show. Under permissions of the org administrator role the feature was not visible at all. Solution: This is not enabled by default. As a sysadmin goto Tenant Access Control -> Rights Bundles Read More…
The Server Does Not Appear to Be Responding. Please Check That Power Is Connected and That the Cisco IMC IP Address Is Correct
Problem When logging into the CIMC of the Cisco s3260 I got the following message: “The server does not appear to be responding. Please check that power is connected and that the Cisco IMC IP address is correct.” Resolution This is known incompatibility bug using the Google Chrome browser. Use an alternative browser and it Read More…
ERROR: Update or Delete on Table “cluster_compute_resource_inv” Violates Foreign Key Constraint
Problem When trying to detach a vCenter from vCloud Director 9.1 – for an upgrade to supported version we got the following error: [ 8eeddedb-d2f5-4674-883f-1be4dd626d86 ] could not execute update queryERROR: update or delete on table “cluster_compute_resource_inv” violates foreign key constraint “fk_cc_dr_v_h_r_i2clu_com_re_in” on table “ccr_drs_vm_host_rule_inv”Detail: Key (ccr_inv_id)=(9a93e8c1-d373-4911-9322-a896db94b5f7) is still referenced from table “ccr_drs_vm_host_rule_inv”. Solution It Read More…
HP DL460c Blade Randomly Not Finding SD Card on Reboot
Problem When we reboot an HP DL460c Gen9 blade approximately 50% of the time it would not find the SD card and thus not boot. Resolution When booting -> Press F9 (System Utilities) -> System Configuraion -> BIOS/Platform Configuration (RBSU) -> System Options -> USB Options -> USB 3.0 Mode. Set to Auto
vCloud Availability – Operation Aborted Due to an Unexpected Error
Problem A customer deployed the vCloud Availaiblity 4.0 Appliance on site and was able to pair sites. However, as soon as any attempt was made to protect any VM they got an Operation aborted due to an unexpected error message Resolution Looking the replicator logs on the we could see the following error messages: This Read More…
Garbage Collection in NetApp Solidfire
Garbage collection on Solidfire starts at the top of every hour: To run the job manually https://{mgmt-vip}/json-rpc/5.0?method=StartGC If you need to run a check on the status of the GC then you can use the following command https://{mgmt-vip}/json-rpc/5.0?method=GetGCStatus
Checking the Status of a vSphere Consolidation via CLI
Issue: To check the status of a snapshot consildation you can use two methods to confirm its progress and whether its still running: Solution Interactively check the filestamps on the vmdk files: SSH to ESXI host and CD into the directory of the VM watch -d 'ls -luth | grep -E "delta|flat|sesparse"' Output Every Read More…
List VLANs and VLAN Groups from Cisco UCS Manager using PowerShell
1) Download and install Cisco UCS Powertool suite (in this example i will be using v2.4.1.3) 2) Install UCS Manager Module Install-Module -Name Cisco.UCSManager -RequiredVersion 2.4.1.3 3) Start Powertool suite and list modules: Get-Command -module Cisco.UCSManager | more 4) Connect to the UCS Manager Connect-Ucs -Name {10.10.10.1} 5) List VLANs and their VLAN Groups Get-UcsFabricNetGroup Read More…