New script to automatically create hosts groups on FlashArrays based on VMware ESXi clusters. This is a script I’ve had out for awhile but only recently revisited and realized it was way out of date and frankly, not very good. So I trashed most of it and re-wrote it. You can find it here:
https://github.com/codyhosterman/powercli/blob/master/createhostgroups.ps1
It is pretty self-explanatory I suppose, but it’s good to review the finer points before you run it. Continue reading FlashArray Host Group Creation PowerShell Script for VMware Clusters →
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So we ran into a customer issue recently with VMware Site Recovery Manager that I have not seen before and have not found any on-point articles on, so I thought I’d share this one. Was an insidious one too, when troubleshooting this one I could not find the issue, eventually one of our rockstar escalation engineers at Pure (Jacob Hopkinson) figured it out after going through SRM debug logs line by line. Comes down to case sensitivity in iSCSI IQNs. I’ll explain…
Continue reading SRM Cannot Identify Replicated Datastores on iSCSI Devices →
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I just released the 1.2 version of the Pure Storage FlashArray Workflow Package for vRealize Orchestrator. Like always, you can get this from GitHub:
https://github.com/codyhosterman/orchestrator/
If you haven’t looked at our vRO workflow package, check out my original post here:
FlashArray Workflow Package for vRealize Orchestrator
While this isn’t a huge release in terms of new features, I think it is an important one because it adds (among others) one particularly important workflow. Translating a VMFS datastore object into a FlashArray volume name. Let’s take a look.
Continue reading Pure Storage vRealize Orchestrator Workflow Package v1.2 →
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I’ve noticed I am beginning to have some blog post sprawl as I update my UNMAP script over and over so I will be using this post from now on to record future updates. Please use this post as the final word on what is new with my UNMAP Script.
Continue reading Pure Storage FlashArray UNMAP PowerCLI Script for VMware ESXi →
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I have quite a few PowerShell scripts these days and I run a bunch of them quite often. All of my scripts log information to a file so I can see what happened but I decided I wanted to log them into something that could help me analyze or quickly review the data. Something better than looking at a bunch of text files. One of my favorite products, VMware Log Insight was the first thing I thought of. The ingestion REST API makes the most sense. Took a little time to figure out the best way to do it, but it’s working great now. To the details!
Continue reading Using PowerShell with the VMware Log Insight REST API →
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Quick shameless plug post. The top vBlog voting for 2016 is out!
http://vsphere-land.com/news/voting-now-open-for-top-vblog-2016.html
My blog is listed for a candidate for top blog and top storage-related blog. If my blog has helped you out and/or you like it please vote for it! I really appreciate it, while I love blogging and will continue to regardless it is a lot of work to keep up and the recognition is greatly appreciated! Keeps me motivated 🙂
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I wrote a post recently on the updates made to the PowerCLI 6.3 R1 esxcli implementation, so the logical next step was to implement this new behavior into my PowerCLI scripts that use esxcli. I still have a few scripts to update, but my two best practice-related scripts are ready to go. The two scripts are:
- Script to check and set best practices. Download here:
- Script to just check best practices, and lists issues in a report. Download here.
While I was updating them for esxcli changes, I figured i might as well improve them too, so there are quite a few changes for both. Let’s take a look.
Continue reading Updated FlashArray VMware Best Practices PowerCLI Scripts →
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