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…
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
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 messaages 2020-12-16 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…
Find Temperature of CPU on Cisco s3260
Problem I got an alert on a Cisco S-Series that CPU #1 and the rear temp was high in Zabbix (over 65c). There were no alerts via the CIMC GUI These temperatures did not match the sensors located in the GUI so i needed to track down where the values were actually coming from. Solution SSH Read More…
Zabbix Agent Not Starting with Error 1067
Problem A newly installed zabbix agent (4.4.x) was installed on a Windows 2016 server using an automated script. The error was showing Windows could not start the Zabbix Agent service on Local Computer Error 1067: The process terminated unexpectedly Troubleshooting i tried to run the command in the foreground "C:\Progra~1\Zabbix-Agent\zabbix_agentd.exe" -f –config "C:\Progra~1\Zabbix-Agent\zabbix_agentd.conf" And Read More…
Script to install Zabbix Agent on CentOS 6 and 7
The following bash script will determine if the guest OS is centos 6 ot 7 then deploy Zabbix Agent version 4.4.x accordingly. Simply change repostories if you want to use a different version: #!/bin/bash OUTPUT="$(cat /etc/redhat-release)" if echo "$OUTPUT" | grep -q "CentOS Linux release 7" ; then yes | Read More…
Increase iNodes on Netapp FAS
Problem Our alerting system notified us that inodes were nearing the system limit on a CIFS share (aka unipod_cifs) on a FAS running ONTap 9 Solution The following command will shiow current usage syntax volume show {cifs_name} -fields files, files-used command volume show unipod_cifs -fields files, files-used To increase the inodes use the following syntax Read More…