It is known that DELL EMC Networker performs Exchange database (DAG or Standalone) restoration through Networker Module for Microsoft (NMM) GUI on the client itself.
However, in some scenarios, directed database restoration is required with urgency. For example, the exchange server is crashed and it is required to restore the database and logs files to another standalone or DAG server.
From VMware PowerCLI version 6.5.2 and above, the .exe installable package is not available from VMware download site. All the PowerCLI modules are available from https://www.powershellgallery.com/packages/VMware.PowerCLI.
This post is to highlight the online and offline installation procedure for PowerCLI version 6.5.2 and above.
Recently, I met an issue for the newly installed PowerCLI 6.5. When launching the PowerCLI, the PowerCLI module failed to load with below error.:
Unable to find type [VMware.VimAutomation.Sdk.Util10.ProductInfo].
At C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\Infrastructure\PowerCLI\Scripts\Initialize-PowerCLIEnvironment.ps1:71 char:28
This post is to provide an example about how to specify a custom level of Cipher Suite security for the Cisco UCS Manager. Cisco have provided a customer Cipher Suite Mode, which allows you to specify a user-defined Cipher Suite specification string.
This post is to provide the steps to replace the self-signed certificate of Cisco UCS Manager to the client signed CA certificate.
We had ran a MDS fabric merge recently between MDS9509 and MDS9148 and met below two errors during the merging process. These errors could be avoided by configuring the correct setting which is detailed as below:
Error Message: %FCDOMAIN-2-EPORT_ISOLATED: %$VSAN 10%$ Isolation of interface port-channel10 (reason: configured domain ID is different from runtime domain ID)
From the log information, it is clear stated that the Domain ID is mis-matched between running-config and local switch configuration. One of the major reasons is the “fcdomain restart” command is not executed after setting the Domain ID. The “fcdomain restart” command basically applies your changes to the runtime settings and align the configured ID and running ID.
There are multiple ways to upgrade DELL Server firmware. However, frankly speaking, DELL server upgrade is not easy enough comparing with HP or Cisco Servers. HP provides SPP and Cisco provide HUU/firmware pack for UCS system, which consolidate and align all the driver/firmware to be at the same level to make the upgrade workflow easier. In general, the recommended DELL upgrade workflow and available methods are detailed in the below document.
http://en.community.dell.com/techcenter/extras/m/white_papers/20408841/download.aspx
In this post, we will utilize the DELL Repository Manager to upgrade the Dell Servers.
I recently got a task to migrate more than 100 VMware virtual machine from one sets of datastores to another. In order to automate this process, I draft a simple PowerShell script to perform below tasks:
The script is as below:
This post is to outline the key steps to configure mNode and how to connect SolidFire storage to ActiveIQ site. This post is not intended to cover all the details in the NetApp SolidFire deploy guide, user guide documents or other NetApp official documents.
What is SolidFire mNode?
The NetApp SolidFire management node (mNode) is a virtual machine deployed in customer environment to provide below functions:
