Power up and connect the install media for the Freenas server. If physical I just cut a CD and connect a USB DVD drive. If virtual then mount the ISO. When booting from install media you will see the FreeNAS boot screen. Press enter or wait for 5 seconds. The first option in the build…
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Manual unMap
This is a script I put together to manually run the unmap to all shared iSCSI datastores from all hosts in a vCenter. After doing this your SAN should report the correct block usage ie more space! With VMFS 6 this is not really needed but there may be times when you need to know…
vCloud, Allow inbound access
In this post I will allow inbound access to a VM. I will be allowing windows RDP on TCP port 3389 but it could be any protocol an any port. First I need to create a filewall rule allowing any traffic hitting the edge with a destination port of 3389 to be accepted.Then a DNAT…
vCloud, Allow outbound access
Once you have some VMs on your vCloud network you will need to allow them access to the internet. Outbound access is configured on the Edge gateway using a firewall and a Source NAT ruleThe firewall rule will allow the internal traffic to reach the external network and the NAT rule will map the internal…
vCloud, Create vApp
This post will detail how to deploy a vApp from a template. There are several ways to deploy vApps but this is my preferred method as I can deploy a vApp with a custom number of VMs. I currently have no vApps configured in my Virtual Data Center.Select NEW VAPP and the deploy new vApp…
vCloud, Create Routed Network
So you have a brand new cloud location and you need to start setting things up. The first thing you are going to need is a network. Of the network types in vCloud director, it is the routed network that is used the most. It is simply a network that is connected to an Edge…
vCloud tenant environment setup.
This is a series of posts detailing how to set up a very simple tenant organisation with a single vApp on an internal network, behind an Edge gateway. I will build each post on the list so over time this series will be the complete documentation on how to build and manage your vCloud tenant…
Handy Ontap Commands
In my line of work I get to play with a lot of NetApp FASs running Ontap from versions 8 up to 9.7. In that time I have complied a handy little list of console commands that I use often. The following commands are mainly used when setting up (or re-purposing) aFAS (or AFF) Configure…
Tutorial, Using Credentials
A common problem I have is that the account that runs a powershell script does not have the required rights on a remote computer to do its job. It could be because the remote “thing” only has local accounts or is a windows computer on a different domain. The old way of getting round this…
Report VM reconfigurations
One this that has always bugged me with vCenter UIs is seeing a reconfigure VM task but not being able to tell what was changed. Some times in an investigation this can be very important. While looking at Event objects one day I discovered an attribute called configchanges on a reconfigured event object. In there…