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: Our 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 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…
Remove VLAN and IP configuration in Windows 2019 Core
in this example I will remove VLAN 419 and associated IP addressing using Powershell This is a follow on from http://www.jordansphere.co.uk/add-lacp-interface-and-vlan-via-cli-in-windows-2019-core/ Remove IP addressing: Remove-NetIPAddress -IPAddress 10.9.34.196 -PrefixLength 26 -InterfaceAlias “Storage – VLAN 419” Remove VLAN: Remove-NetLbfoTeamNic -Team “Storage” -vlanid 419
Install Cisco MLOM Drivers to Windows on Cisco UCS C220 M5
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: