Leveraging API Gateways for Microservices Orchestration: A Strategic Guide
Why API design and microservices are foundational to modern software, and how API gateways orchestrate them: a strategic guide.
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Engineering
cisco WS-C4900M: Set SSH
Note: You can leave the “telnet” off vty transport, but if you do ensure that you’ve tested SSH first!
Create bootable USB from ISO – Rufus
A quick bookmark for Rufus, a free tool for creating a bootable USB drive from an ISO image.
vol maxfiles
I was asked the other day what happens with maxfiles. Maxfiles has to do with inodes on the NetApp.
NetApp: cli vol create – match SM2.2 vols
2 creates as a vol type but via CLI, some of us still batch out our commands in notepad so here yah go: SAN: NAS:
Android: Push file to sdcard with adb
I ran into the issue where Windows was not mounting the Phone’s SD card within windows, so I had to revert back to using adb.
VMware dump collector and remote syslog
The esxcli commands to configure a VMware ESXi network core dump collector, kept here because I always forget them.
Update Disk Label
Have you ever had a system where you were running 7.3.x and got a new disk shelf intended for an 8.x release, and the disks show as broken?
Unown Disks – Remove Disk Ownership
A quick command that I always forget to remember when you want to unown disks from a NetApp where nether filer owns the disks.
SnapManager for Exchange: Backup Tasks
Notes on SnapManager for Exchange backup tasks, and why the task-creation wizard is so frustrating.
Check for queued autosupports
NetApp has released some commands in the 8.1.x code line release to check autosupport information.
VMware 5.x, set drives to SSD
Quick post, sometimes VMware doesn’t detect that you have SSD locally and you you need to force it to enable SSD.
300k IOPS – NetApp Flash Pools
1, Flash Pools. You basically create an aggregate with two different disk types, SSD and SAS or SATA.
NetApp DS4486 Shelf Released in June
NetApp quietly released the DS4486 shelf in June: the first fourth-generation shelf, carrying 48 disks in a 4U chassis.
OnCommand Core – Changing default http port and report images not working
Fixing NetApp OnCommand Core 5.0 after changing its default HTTP port, which broke the report images.
NetApp Disk Shelf Model Breakdown
Just came across some interesting information that I didn’t realize before, but here’s some information on why disk shelves from NetApp are named the way they are.
SCOM: Alert Generating Rules vs Collection Rules
A quick Google search didn’t yield a quick explanation of this, so I’ll quickly describe the difference.
PowerShell: Schedule a URL into Maintenance Mode
Found a nice article about how to script a URL (or web application) into maintenance mode.
Designing Disaster Recovery … on a budget
There are several options for disaster recovery and high availability. There’s host based solutions, array based solutions, and virtualization solutions.
OpsMgr 2007 – No graphs in emailed reports
Some of you may have found that there are no graphs in your emails (scheduled reports) from SCOM 2007.
OpsMgr 2007 – Author Privileges
Have you run into setting up permissions/privileges for your administrators within the scom console. This can be quite confusion.
Remotely reboot a server
2. In the console tree, right-click Computer Management (Local), and then click Connect to another computer.
NetApp GX Monitoring and Cacti
Releasing my NetApp OnTap GX monitoring templates for Cacti, long after writing them, with a fuller write-up still to come.
Easy OnTap Upgrades (NDU)
How to upgrade a NetApp filer with a non-disruptive upgrade (NDU): the command to issue, and why to run the upgrade advisor first.
HOW TO: Use DFS on a Server Cluster to Maintain a Single Namespace
Microsoft actually has a great article about how to create a DFS enviornment on a windows server cluster.
NetApp OnTap 7.3 Released
3. This is a major performance release for NetApp as it starts to take advantage of the powerful 64-bit cores that NetApp has in their lineup of products.
Microsoft System Center Acronyms
A quick reference decoding Microsoft System Center product acronyms: MOM, SCCP, ConfigMgr and the rest of the family.
Change SMS Cache Size
A VBScript that changes the SMS client cache size and location. Usage: cscript change-sms-cache.vbs 1000 d: (size in MB).
Response Buffer Limit Exceeded
Response object error 'ASP 0251 : 80004005' Response Buffer Limit Exceeded
Ping a list of machines from txt
A VBScript that pings a list of machines read from a text file and logs each result; change the two path variables for your input and output files.
WinZip count with version
SELECT ProductName0 AS Product, VersionMajor0 AS Version, COUNT() AS Count FROM dbo.vGSINSTALLEDSOFTWARE GROUP BY ProductName0, VersionMajor0 HAVING (ProductName0 = 'winzip')
VMware / MS VM / Real / Total Count
http://smsug.ca/blogs/garthjones/archive/2007/08/01/528.aspx
SMS Site Status
This is a “dashboard” report that shows the current SMS site status.