When trying to find the IP address of the ILO Out-of-Band Management associated with an ESX host, this can be found by doing the following:
Here is a quick fix to connect to an iDrac Console session using Java, if you are getting the “Connection Failed” error. You simply need to re-enable SSLv3 support in Java temporarily.
That should allow you to connect without any errors. For security purposes, you should uncomment that file line when you are finished to disable SSLv3 again.
The path to the iocage jails has changed in FreeNAS 11.3. This post shows the new path, but the instructions are the exact same as they were on FreeNAS 11.2.
4. Stop the current Plex Jail
5. Open WinSCP and login to FreeNAS and browse to: /mnt/FreeNAS/iocage/jails/plexpass/root/usr/local/share
6. Rename existing plexmediaserver folder and add _old at the end
7. Copy the plexmediaserver folder you downloaded into the WinSCP window
8. Right-Click on the copied folder and set permissions recursively to 0775
9. Open the plexmediaserver folder and select the file Plex Media Server
10. Click New – Link
11. Name the link Plex_Media_Server and click OK
12. Click the Link you created and select the Console Button
13. Enter the command: chmod -h 775 Plex_Media_Server
4. Stop the current Plex Jail
5. Open WinSCP and login to FreeNAS and browse to /mnt/iocage/jails/root/usr/local/share/
6. Rename existing plexmediaserver folder and add _old at the end
7. Copy the plexmediaserver folder you downloaded into the WinSCP window
8. Right-Click on the copied folder and set permissions recursively to 0775
9. Open the plexmediaserver folder and select the file Plex Media Server
10. Click New – Link
11. Name the link Plex_Media_Server and click OK
12. Click the Link you created and select the Console Button
13. Enter the command: chmod -h 775 Plex_Media_Server
Reset APs via Console Cable (preferred method)
Reset APs via GUI
Believe it or not, disabling Read Receipts in Outlook does not disable this feature from your mobile device. In fact, Send Read Receipts is enabled out of the box, and it has to be disabled via OWA. Big thanks to Gostev from Veeam for pointing this out!
Disabling it is easy, and I can’t think of many scenarios in which someone would NOT want to disable this. It can be disabled by logging into OWA from a computer (or a mobile browser that will disable the mobile view) and go to the following:
Settings -> General -> Mobile Devices -> and make sure to check the “Don’t send read receipts for messages read on devices that use Exchange Active Sync” checkbox.
3. Type jexec {n} csh where {n} is the installed jail ID
4. Type pkg upgrade
5. Type service plexmediaserver stop
6. Type service plexmediaserver start
Change the following commands in step 5-6
5. Type service plexmediaserver_plexpass stop
6. Type service plexmediaserver_plexpass start
Cleaning up legacy storage and vSphere environments is always fun, especially when you think you have everything moved off an old array, only to find that your production database goes offline when that array is unplugged -totally made up scenario, did not happen to me 🙂
The slow way to approach this would be to go through every VM, one by one, and check the disks associated with the VM, and then reference LUN numbers on the SAN, etc. OR, you could use PowerCLI and find that info in a snap.
For instructions on how to install PowerCLI, see my previous post here
connect-viserver YOUR IP ADDRESS
If you see the following error, you will need to set PowerCLI to disregard Self-Signed Certs
Set-PowerCLIConfiguration -InvalidCertificateAction ignore -confirm:$false
2. Run the following command to produce a list of VMs with RDMs
Get-VM | Get-HardDisk -DiskType "RawPhysical","RawVirtual" | Select Parent,Name,DiskType,ScsiCanonicalName,DeviceName | fl
The output will look similar to this (sorry, I didnt have any additional RDMs when making this tutorial for a real screenshot)
3. Finally, if you would like to save the output to a file, use the following command
Get-VM | Get-HardDisk -DiskType "RawPhysical","RawVirtual" | Select Parent,Name,DiskType,ScsiCanonicalName,DeviceName | fl | Out-File –FilePath RDM-list.txt
VMware PowerCLI is a very powerful tool to assist in automating tasks, advanced configurations and troubleshooting, etc. The following procedure can be used to install PowerCLI.
Downloading and installing PowerCLI is all done within Windows PowerShell itself.
Save-Module -Name VMware.PowerCLI -Path <path>
Run the following PowerShell Command to Install the PowerCLI Modules
Install-Module -Name VMware.PowerCLI
Get-Module -ListAvailable -Name VMware*
