As the VMware vCloud Director 1.5 Install Guide points out, each vCD server requires 2 SSL certificates. The procedures described in the install guide don't necessarily work out of the box. Here are a few pointers on how to properly install the SSL certificates: Make sure to use the keytool utility located in /opt/vmware/vcloud-director/jre/bin/keytool. Using other keytool binaries located elsewhere in the system might generate errors. The command string provided in the install guide to … [Read more...]
OnTap API for CIFS Shares Quotas
I was prompted to make this post by the comment entry on an another post relating to retrieving quota information using SNMP. The comment author was trying to get quota information to include the file share name itself. While there's no direct way to do it, I think the below script which utilizes the OnTap API might be of use towards that end. Note: Needs error checking routines and such #! /usr/local/bin/perl eval '(exit $?0)' && eval 'exec /usr/local/bin/perl $0 ${1+"$@"}' && eval … [Read more...]
Log file locations in NetApp Data ONTAP
The following list outlines the various log files and their locations used by Data ONTAP. In addition, ONTAP also uses syslogd daemon to log system messages (and uses the config file /etc/syslog.conf) Messages: /etc/log/messages (symbolic link to /etc/messages) SnapMirror: /etc/log/snapmirror FlexClone: /etc/log/clone Auditlog: /etc/log/auditlog Deduplication: /etc/log/sis LACP: /etc/log/lacp_log Backup: /etc/log/backup and /etc/log/ndmpdlog FTP: /etc/log/ftp.cmd … [Read more...]
MultiStore vFiler Tip
Here's a small tip on configuring additional IP addresses in a NetApp vFiler (configured using MultiStore license). Add the IP address to the vfiler simtap3> vfiler add myapp -i 172.16.56.143 simtap3> vfiler status -a myapp myapp running ipspace: default-ipspace IP address: 172.16.56.142 [e0a] IP address: 172.16.56.143 [unconfigured] Path: /vol/myapp_data1 [/etc] UUID: 18c11808-3121-11df-8019-000c299de18f … [Read more...]
Refreshing Test Dev SQL Environments using NetApp Technologies
The use of NetApp technologies such as FlexVol, FlexClone, SnapMirror and SnapManager for SQL (SMSQL), SnapManager for Exchange (SME) and SnapManager for Virtual Infrastructures (SMVI) are well known and documented. The references section at the end of this post lists links to technical reports and information on NetApp technologies applicable to Database environments. In this post, we'll cover the details of a perl script that refreshes a secondary SQL Database environment with data from … [Read more...]
WordPress Feature? or a bug?
Here's a dome scratcher. Why does the following happen? http://rajeev.name/a redirect to the first post that starts with a? http://rajeev.name/ab redirects to the first post that starts with "ab"... It's an auto-magic alphabetically sorted URL expander! I found it to be true on other wordpress sites as well. Eeet's a problem. I tink. … [Read more...]
Google Chrome Web Developer Tool
A quick note -- If you are using Google Chrome, then a very basic version of Web Developer tools can be accessed by Option (⌥) + Command (⌘) + J and Option (⌥) + Command (⌘) + I. The resulting screen looks like this: … [Read more...]
Configuring Cisco 1000v with NAS datastores
Should you? Can you? The devil is in semantics. We've got an environment where the Service Console is configured with a traditional vSwitch and the VMKernel ports for NAS datastores (and VMotion) and are configured on Cisco 1000v. The toe-stepping happens when one of the hosts in the cluster is rebooted. It appears that Service Console is triggering VMKernel to mount the datastores before the 1000v has fully brought the interfaces up. This causes the NAS datastores to timeout during its … [Read more...]
iPod crash fix for iPhone 3.0 beta 5
The long standing issue of iPod application crashing on the beta versions of iPhone continues. As the previous link points out, there is more than one way to fix the problem, depending on the circumstances. My situation was not fixed by either of those tricks. Again, not too surprisingly, my iPhone started having iPod issues soon after I downloaded a Podcast. For now, I connected the phone to iTunes, turned off Podcast syncing and voila!, my iPod works now. So as a summary and depending … [Read more...]
GrandCentral has arrived!
GrandCentral is now Google Voice. I was able to get my beta account converted over to Google Voice account. While the migration was manual which I kinda pooh-poohed. I had to export my GrandCentral contacts and import it into Google Addressbook, re-record my name and greeting and re-check my settings. It would've been more of Google-like, if they had a big red button in the middle of the page saying "CLICK HERE" and an AJAX response saying "You are now on Google Voice". There are only two … [Read more...]
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