How big is your vCenter DB?
I just want to know how much space does your vCenter DB consume and what are your biggest tables?
Add VLAN in UCS with PowerShell
Mostly I created VLANs in UCS with the GUI, but how do we do this in PowerShell?
Find your VM with Top IOPS
How do you indentify VMs that generates the most IOPS? With the vSphere Client? No, we do it in PowerCLI 😉
Check Paths on FC-HBA’s
Often you have to check the paths on your hosts. At least if you upgrade your UCS or SAN infrastructure 😉 Do it with PowerCLI!
stumbling blocks in upgrading Cisco UCS (Part 2of2)
stumbling blocks in upgrading Cisco UCS (Part 1of2)
In theory a upgrade of an UCS is not complicated, but there are many stumbling blocks. I show you my procedure, bugs, some hints and Cisco TAC Support stuff 😉
Report your VM growth per Cluster (Part 2of2 Format Data)
In my last post, we collected data with PowerCLI scripts to build some graphs and numbers in Excel. Let’s start fomating this data!
Report your VM growth per Cluster (Part 1of2 Collect Data)
What about a Report about your VM growth per Cluster? The only thing we use is Excel, PowerCLI and HTML-Reports. I show you how to build that.
Cisco MDS 9000 Alias
In my last post I showed you how to zone a MDS 9000. But maybe some of you missed how the alias in MDS works.
How to: Cisco MDS 9000 Zoneing
Do you know how to zone a Cisco MDS? Personally I started with SAN Switches from Brocade. Maybe some of you know the Java GUI. Nothing wrong with this, but we all know there are better things than Java 😉