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Adaptec 3805 CIM for ESXi5

Install CIM provider 7.30 attached (downloaded from Adaptec web site) cim_vmware_v7_30_18837 esxcli software vib install -f -v file:/vmfs/volume/datastore1/filename.vib Open ESXi firewall to CIM provider port Create symbolic link on esxi ln -s /dev/aac0 /dev/aac I have not yet checked what happens on esxi reboot if link is lost (I think)

Bash test operator

File type tests These options test for particular types of files. All cases will only return True (0) if the file exists. `-b file’ True if file is a Block special device. `-c file’ True if file is a Character special device. `-d file’ True if file is a Directory. `-e file’ True if file …

Disabling SELINUX on CentOS6

If you really need to disable SELinux on CentOS 6 type: # vi /etc/selinux/config and change SELINUX=enforcing # This file controls the state of SELinux on the system. # SELINUX= can take one of these three values: # enforcing – SELinux security policy is enforced. # permissive – SELinux prints warnings instead of enforcing. # …

Orphaned Users

If you migrate DB between sql server or if you restore a DB on new sql server, you may get orphaned sql user. To detect if you’re in this condition, run this sp. EXEC sp_change_users_login ‘Report’ This will report all login inserted into db and not in sql server. If you already have a login …

CentOs6/RHEL6 ssh without PAM problem

If you want to disable PAM authentication on ssh, you can get error that are unable to find shadow for the user. You need to disable/remove selinux because it’s blocking sshd to access /etc/shadow

Removing WPAD from DNS block list

If you want to implement proxy auto discovery, you also need to create wpad dns record. In Windows 2008 this host record are blocked and dns server will not resolve this query. You need to issue the following command to remove the block: dnscmd /config /globalqueryblocklist

Adding a disk to a Windows 2008 Failover Cluster using cluster.exe commands

This isn’t specific to multi-site clustering, but I’ve certainly had to use this many times when adding devices to my multi-site clusters. Adding disks to a multi-site Windows 2008 cluster is not as easy as it should be. In Windows 2008, Microsoft has added some new “logic” while adding disk resources to a cluster. In …

Updating ESXi 5 – Single use esxcli

01: Make sure you have the vMA 5.0 or the vCLI installed and configured or that you have ESXi Shell access on the ESXi 5 host. 02: Download the patch bundle directly from VMware Support. This download will be .zip file. Do not extract it. 03: Upload the .zip file to a datastore that is …

LUNs presented from a CLARiiON array to a host are read only

Knowledgebase Solution    Environment:  Product: CLARiiON Environment:  EMC SW: Navisphere Manager Environment:  EMC SW: Replication Manager Problem:  LUNs are read only when allocated to a host from Navisphere. Problem:  LUNs presented to host are read only. Change:  Customer added the LUN to a Storage Group from Navisphere. Root Cause:  When a Replication Manager job runs, it …