If you look after ESXi hosts that are installed to SD cards then you will know the constant pain of replacing failed cards. You may know the pain of losing both cards in this process and having to reinstall from scratch. ESXi hosts are not the hardest thing to rebuild but for me. its a…
Tag: Backup
VM clone script
This is a VM clone/”backup” script that I use in my home lab. I schedule this script to make a clone of important VMs (works with vCenter) and clones them to another datastore. Obveusly this is not a proper backup but if I make a config change or lose a datastore then this will (and…
File deletion scripts
I get asked quite alot at work to monitor folders and delete files older then x days or stop them growing out of control. These folders are normaly FTP backups of things that do not age out. Like config backups (NSX im looking at you). There are a couple of ways to do this. The…
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…