well, quite a long time after I wrote this I’m finally releasing it. Let me know if you have any problems with it, I wanted to do a more detailed write-up but for now, at least I’ll get it out there ;). Click read-more if you’re interested in the link to the download.
I’ve gotten a little further. I’ve refined my perl script so that it gets data from various more reliable sources within GX. It’s been crazy busy at work but I should have the solution posted this week. 🙂 Read on for some screenshots.
I’ve created a new site where I’m posting my various photos that I’ve taken. Most are city scenes and the like but for your viewing pleasure:
Here’s a sneak peak at what I’ve been up to. Once I’ve got everything done I’ll post the code and a how-to guide.
Man this camera is cool. I’ve got to get used to it, this is my first SLR. I was going to buy the 40D and saw that the 50D was right around the corner. I called up my local store today and they had some in stock!! Walking away set back about $2600 i started taking random pictures in the office. Here are a few that i’ve taken just for fun. Read More
I’ve made my first attempt at creating a cacti template. Next is to get a little more advanced and actually script information from OnTap GX to try to get some functional performance statistics since as you know there’s no SNMP on GX.
An easy way to upgrade your filer is to issue the following (always run the upgrade advisor prior to upgrades to ensure you’re system is good to go to the version you’re looking for).
- download ontap from the NOW site
- load that file onto a web server (http)
- login to your filer from the console (rlm if preferred)
- toasterA> software update http://{ipaddress}/{version}_setup_q.exe -r
- toasterB> software update http://{ipaddress}/{version}_setup_q.exe -r
- *you should update the disk and shelf firmware at this point to speed the cluster failover time*
- toasterA> storage download shelf (Wait to complete)
- toasterB> storage download shelf (Wait to complete)
- toasterB> cf takeover
- … wait for reboot (10 min) …
- toasterB> cf giveback
- toasterA> cf takeover
- … wait for reboot (10 min) …
- toasterA> cf giveback
Microsoft actually has a great article about how to create a DFS enviornment on a windows server cluster.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/301588
I’m going to append to this my own version but for now, here’s the placeholder!
A major release for NetApp posted to the NOW site today, OnTap 7.3. 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.
For those of you that have a NOW account:
http://now.netapp.com/NOW/knowledge/docs/ontap/rel73/html/ontap/rnote/frameset.html
I’m going to start to change things around. This blog will become more of a datacenter infrastructure site rather than a SMS/ConfigMgr/Scripting site. I’m going to change my focus on to storage, fiberchannel/ethernet storage networks, datacenter design trends, and high-level project overviews.
I still haven’t found alot of time to keep this up to date. but i’m going to try in the future to at least post one blog a week. Respond to this post with comments on anything you’d like expained and i’ll try to use those as topics to proceed.