SLPP Guard – Simple Loop Prevention Protocol Configuration for Edge Ports (XOS/SwitchEngine)

On VOSS/FabricEngine SLPP should be configured on every VLAN at the point where it leaves the fabric and meets a non-fabric loop prevention strategy.  This will prevent any loops from impacting the fabric by closing down ports where a loop is detected. The below assumes you already have SLPP configured on your upstream switches. If […]

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Using dnsmasq on Raspberry Pi for Quick Hosts File Fudge for Android Mobile

During some upcoming changes I needed to test a mobile application to use a test IP address for a standard hostname. Problem is, I didn’t want to root my Android phone to be able edit the hosts file. There are apps such as “Hosts Go”, but in my case these didn’t work. On a normal […]

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Can’t unmount an NFS datastore from a ESXi host

PROBLEM As part of a storage replacement programme, we had migrated all our VMs off the NFS datastore. When attempting to unmount the datastore from the host(s) we where given this error: Call “HostDatastoreSystem.RemoveDatastore” for object “datastoreSystem-122544” on vCenter Server “vcenterFQDN” failed. An unknown error has occurred. Checking the /var/log/vmkernel.log on the host we saw […]

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SharePoint 2013 – Fix graphical glitch on timeline

We had a weird graphical glitch on the timeline webpart on our SharePoint installation, we couldn’t figure out what was happening. Until that is we checked out the element in F12 Developer tools, within one of our customisations we used the .ms-rtestate-field img directive within our custom site CSS file. So this is what we […]

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