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How to boot a M4000 Sun Solaris server
Sometimes your Solaris server may not boot by just pressing the power button. If autoboot is not enabled in XSCF or is configured wrongly, you will have to manually issue the boot command. I will explain how to do that here. First of all, make sure that any disk array attached to the Solaris server is powered on. Notes: a) Type commands without the quotes shown below. b) Do not press the power button on the front of the machine. Here is the procedure: 1. First, make sure that the server is powered down. If it is already powered on you will have to pull out the 2 power…
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Find location of your VMs
Ok so now you have many, many VMs running on your Hyper-V hosts. You wanna know where are they actually running from… I mean on which SAN, which LUN or which local disk array are they running. There is no easy way to find out that information from the VMM Manager console. You can open up the properties of each and every VM and look at the config but it is not practical. PowerShell to the rescue! Here is a small PS code snippet which will show you the information quickly. Get-VM –ComputerName HOSTNAME1, HOSTNAME2 | Get-VMHardDiskDrive | Select-Object -Property VMName, ComputerName, ControllerType, Path | Sort-Object -Property VMName | Out-GridView…
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Lost battle against Cucumber Mosaic Virus, again!
Uh oh, it is just August 1st and my cucumber plants have already started dying from CMV. This year I planted my cukes in a different box… the one I planted tomatoes in, last year. They survived longer than if I planted in the same box as the one in which I planted them last year (when they got killed by CMV). I am really tired of this CMV, there is no solution to this problem 🙁 They say prevention is the only thing you can do…but how?
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Monitor a website using SCOM 2012
So you just installed SCOM? Now you are excited to put it to use. One of the first things I wanted to do is to monitor a website. Here I will describe how you can do it quickly.
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Quick install guide for System Center 2012 – Operations Manager
Here are my notes for installing SCOM on a single server. The DB will be on a different server. Prerequisites: In a nutshell you need to do these things first. For reference, Here is the official documentation. I also used Kevin Holman’s blog about a similar deployment here.