Unisphere Management service won’t start on EMC VNX Array
OK so we had a scheduled power outage at one of our secondary DCs. The SAN was…
Troubleshooting VMware lost access to volume errors
Recently we have been seeing heaps of these types of errors fill up our VMware ESXi logs:…
Setting up AD Auth with Hashicorp Vault
Hashicorp Vault is open source and can be used in DevOps processes for secure automated retrieval of…
Palo Alto Networks Powershell Backup Script
As we recently rolled out a bunch of PA firewalls, I have created a powershell script to…
ELK Stack with Palo Alto Firewall – Using Curator to clear indexes
I recently deployed an ELK stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) VM as logger for a Palo Alto Networks…
Request a SAN certificate using MS CA Web enrollment Pages
1. Run these commands on the MS CA server: certutil -setreg policy\EditFlags +EDITF_ATTRIBUTESUBJECTALTNAME2 net stop certsvc net…
Renaming a vSwitch in VMWare ESXi
At the ESX Console, log in and hit Alt-F1 then type unsupported and hit Enter. You won’t…
Configure iSCSI Port Binding using ESXCLI
1. Enable SSH console from the management settings > troubleshooting options on the ESXi console. 2. Bring…
Deploying Dell vLT on OS10
I was recently asked to assist our training environment with the deployment of mid market Dell data…
VMware ESXi Setting iphash load balancing via CLI
I recently setup x2 new ESXi 6.7u1 servers without access to each hosts LAN. I needed to…