Start off the Central Ohio VMUG Users Conference a little early.

Join the VMwareAdmins.com team at another edition of Columbus vBeers.

This event is being held at the Gordon Biersch located in the Arena District. We will be located in the pool room located off the bar.… Read the rest

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Using ZFS on Linux is an attractive solution for a high-performance NFS server due to several key factors:

• Cost, ability to use commodity hardware with free software
• Simplicity, quick install and easy to configure/manage
• Flexibility, ZFS offers a plethora of options for your filesystem needs

In this case, I installed ZFS on CentOS 6.4 available here: http://isoredirect.centos.org/centos/6/isos/x86_64/

The hardware I used was a HP DL370 G6 with 11 3TB disks to be used for ZFS.… Read the rest

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The IBM Storage Management Console for Vmware vCenter adds a single-source of glass view into the IBM storage platform (in my case the StoreWize V7000) without leaving vCenter.

However, the default installation ships with an unsigned SSL Certificate that does not function well with IE9/vCenter.… Read the rest

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I went to check out my vCenter Operations Manager deployment today, and it showed as unlicensed:

vCenter Operations Manager shows unlicensed, yet not showing as an asset in vSphere licensing page

Yet on the licensing page, Operations Manager does not even show as an asset:

vCenter Operations Manager Not Showing On Licensing Asset Page

A quick google search turns up the following Vmware KB Article

And it turns out the resolution is quite simple:

Resolution

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I’ll admit it.

I have spent very little time learning PowerShell. I fall back to the comfort of the Explore shell or using other peoples PowerShell scripts. For those of you diving into Microsoft Server Core can attest, not knowing PowerShell is kind of an issue.… Read the rest

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After installing Cisco UCS and performing the initial setup of the UCS Fabric Interconnects; there is a lot of work that needs to be completed prior to configuring the blade Service Profiles.

This can be done a multitude of ways, manually through UCSM, scripted through SSH or now through PowerShell using Cisco PowerTool.… Read the rest

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When building out your UCS deployment, you create a series of Fibre Channel (FC) uplinks. Then you have to go back and add those FC uplinks to the VSAN’s that you created. This can be tedious if you have a lot of FC uplinks as you would need to modify each one.… Read the rest

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With the Central Ohio VMware Users Group (COVMUG) moving to quarterly meetings, Scott and I decided to start a Columbus area vBeers gathering.

March 19th, the first ever Columbus vBeers was held at the Olentangy River Road Rooster’s location.… Read the rest

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After Updating the IBM PureFlex CMM Firmware, my compute nodes showed up yellow on the chassis layout screen:

IBM PureFlex CMM Firmware Update

Various errors were logged in the CMM event viewer and within the FSM:

Flex System Manager (FSM) event log:

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Creating QOS policies within UCS Manager can be somewhat cumbersome. In UCS Manager, on the Lan tab; you would right-click UCS policies and click create… one by one you would go through this process to define you UCS policies, if you have a lot of policies or a lot of UCS builds to do this can become quite monotonous.… Read the rest

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