Getting sick of Microsoft Windows and the ISE, I’ve installed VMware PowerCLI on my Debian Linux today. Everything could be done from your Shell, you do not need to download anything with your browser. Nice stuff – PowerCLI was installed in unter 2 minutes 😉 First you need to add some apt sources and install… Read More »
In an old post I described how to make an automated and consistent backup of VMware vCenter Server Appliance with vSphere 6.5 and some Linux Bash scripts. With vSphere 6.7, VMware introduced a new feature called “Backup Schedule”: Now you can configure a schedule for the backup (including a cleanup job) – there is no need for… Read More »
Our first setup with NetApp Clustered Data ONTAP starting with 8.0.1 in late 2010 was build with two single network switches, each connected with a single 10 GbE link. Because you cannot span a link aggregation over two single switches we decided to use an interface group with mode “singlemode”, which means that simply only… Read More »
One of my oldest IT articles from about 2005 🙂 Introduction This HOWTO describes how to quickly generate a nice graph, showing you the average ping time off a specific host. This picture is the result we should get: This setup consists of 4 steps * Configfile * RRDcreate * RRDupdate * RRDgraph Configfile The… Read More »