For this guide you will need to have Home-brew installed. If you have not already done this run the following: Update Brew formulae before installing Podman Install Podman via Home-brew Initialise Podman This creates and downloads the VM image Start Podman
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
Deploy AWS Storage Gateway on Vsphere
In this example I will show you how to deploy an AWS Storage Gateway on vcenter. Firstly download the OVA to a local machine and deploy within vcenter/esxi. I wont go through this process but once complete, I added an extra disk for caching and then powered it on. When powered on, open the console Read More…
DMG File Not Opening on MacOS
Whenever I downloaded a new .dmg (in this example I will call it myprogram.dmg) file and tried to run it nothing happened. I tried rebooting, updating (to 12.4) and control+click -> choose DiskImageMounter but it refused to open. To get around this I opened Terminal (either search for it or open via Finder -> Applications Read More…
Podman Fails to Install via Homebrew
I attempted to install Podman on MacOS via brew but it failed part way through with following message: I managed to fix this issue by simply re-running the brew install and it went through successfully on second attempt. brew install podman
Configure LDAP Access on Netapp E-Series Santricity
The following quick guide will show you how to configure LDAP to an active directory domain from the Santricity (11.5) web based interface. Log into Santricity Web GUI and go to Settings -> Access Management Click Directory Services -> Add Directory Server I filled out the following under Server Settings. Please change to your Then Read More…
NSX Manager Not Displaying Values
Problem The NSX-V Manager tab timed out when trying via vCenter and when logging into the NSX Manager GUI none of the values were showing and eventually I got an HTTP error Solution To fix this issue SSH to the NSX Manager Go into Config mode 3. Once in this mode use the following command Read More…
Error: Unused Cluster Ports Exist in the Cluster – Netapp AFF C190 Setup Failure
Problem When trying to create new two node cluster on a Netapp C190. Trying to create cluster again as previous attempt failed. Error: Unused cluster ports exist in the cluster. One or more ports may not be in the “healthy” state, or may be incorrectly assigned to the “Cluster” Ipspace. Run “network port show -ipspace Read More…
Upgrade Ontap 9.9
In this article I will outline the steps in upgrading (a very buggy) Netapp Ontap 9.9.1 to 9.9.1P5 Download 9.9.5 firmware from Netapp website (in a tgz format) Log into Cluster Mgmt VIP Cluster -> Overview -> Upload image Once uploaded select {image} -> Update In my environment it threw up a few errors on Read More…
Reboot Loop Limit Exceeded – NetApp E5760
Problem: When installing (well, remote hands in a datacenter) an NetApp E5760 with DE460C shelf, after the initial configuration of the management IP address the array went into the following state: Reboot Loop Limit Exceeded Lockdown code: 0ELF The storage array has exceeded its reboot limit and has locked down to preserve the data on Read More…
SMCLI Commands for NetApp E-Series
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…