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Comment on NVRAM problems on Netapp 3200 series filers by Ed Grigson

Ed Grigson — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 11:32:53 +0000

We’ve not yet, so I can’t help unfortunately. I’m still hoping I’ll get downtime approved sometime soon so I can apply the firmware. We’ve just racked another 3240 which I can test the firmware process with but unfortunately (?) the new controller is not yet exhibiting the FCMTO issue so I can’t vouch for the fix there either. Maybe someone else can confirm via comments that it’s worked for them?

Comment on NVRAM problems on Netapp 3200 series filers by Alan

Alan — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 10:43:30 +0000

Have you applied the fimware update yet? We applied it to 4 of our filers but it does not seem to fix the issue as we are still seeing that the Battery current is zero.

Comment on Adding a custom PowerCLI brush for syntax highlighting on WordPress by Ed Grigson

Ed Grigson — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 18:26:04 +0000

@Michael Poore
Strewth, you’re eagle eyed!

You’re right that many PowerCLI scripts will include normal PowerShell cmdlets, so in my brush file I’ve added a second ‘keywords += ‘‘ line so the PowerCLI cmdlets are in addition to the usual PowerShell commands, not instead of. I somehow missed that in the script which generates the ‘keywords +=’ line however. It’s duly updated.

It’s also worth pointing out that if you want to add cmdlets from other vendors (Netapp’s ONTAP Toolkit for example) you’ll need to amend line 6. Either drop the ‘-Module vmware*’ part (as Michael rightly points out) or filter by your vendor of choice. Thanks!

Comment on Adding a custom PowerCLI brush for syntax highlighting on WordPress by Michael Poore

Michael Poore — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 15:53:02 +0000

Nice. I’ve used SyntaxHighlighter in the past. Given that many PowerCLI scripts will include normal PowerShell commands though, and I don’t think that you can nest brushes with SyntaxHighlighter, you probably would want to remove “-Module vmware*” from line 06 and capture all commands from all modules wouldn’t you?
I’ll try it out later and let you know.

Comment on vExpert 2012 – the mutual benefit of the 1% by Arjan

Arjan — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 12:46:01 +0000

@Ed Grigson
If nothing strange happens I’ll be in Barcelona

Comment on vExpert 2012 – the mutual benefit of the 1% by Ed Grigson

Ed Grigson — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 16:35:24 +0000

Thanks Arjan. I suspect the challenge for VMware will be the growing number of people who are all contributing great content to the community – either the bar is going to rise or the number of vExpert’s is going to increase (or maybe both). You’ve got lots of great content on your site so fingers crossed for you! See you in Barcelona for VMworld maybe?

Regards,

Ed.

Comment on vExpert 2012 – the mutual benefit of the 1% by Arjan

Arjan — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 15:12:13 +0000

Hi Ed,

Great article! You really say it the way it is!

I hope you’ll be recognized as a vExpert, because in my opinion you’re doing this for the right reason!

It’s the passion for the products VMware makes, and to give others a look over your shoulder when you experience things that need to be solved in your daily job. Or things you think are worthy of sharing with your peers.

I’ll hold my fingers crossed for you too (as I’ll do for myself )

Have a great day!

Greetz,

Arjan

Comment on Is the HP power setting impacting your performance? by HP BIOS Setting affecting your VM Performance. « My Blog, My Precious.

HP BIOS Setting affecting your VM Performance. « My Blog, My Precious. — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 09:45:39 +0000

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Comment on Space: the final frontier (gotcha upgrading to vSphere5 with NFS) by Ed Grigson

Ed Grigson — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 07:46:04 +0000

Thanks for the suggestions David.

I’m probably playing ‘devils advocate’ more than I need to in the article – first up I’m OK with PowerCLI even though I’m no Jonathan Medd! We were already using a script to extract the datastore settings from a host pre-upgrade and then another to reapply them after the upgrade, and a script to simply remove spaces from our datastore names does make sense now that we know the root cause. I’m not sure why I wrote that we aren’t entitled to Host Profiles, as we’ve been using them exactly as you suggest (I think it’s my subconscious frustration that they’re an Enterprise+ feature). I’m not familiar with Inventory Snapshot so I’ll go and have a look and see what it can offer us.

Comment on Space: the final frontier (gotcha upgrading to vSphere5 with NFS) by @dboftlp

@dboftlp — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 02:33:31 +0000

Several things come to mind immediately. 1st & foremost, get PowerCLI, it’s long overdue. With that many hosts & datastores per host the learning curve will pay for itself very quickly if not immediately in your case! Secondly, VMWare flings, more specifically Inventory Snapshot. Brilliant piece of work, check it out. Also, if you’re upgrading hosts, wait to apply the licenses, create your host profiles and apply the profiles to the hosts as they come online. You can apply the licenses up to 60 days after & en masse once everything is up & running nicely. jm2c!

kthxbai,
@dboftlp