The ramblings of a computer geek
Although the PowerShell ISE is now no longer supported (apparently), you can allow it to use PowerShell 7, which can be handy if you need to use some of the new PowerShell 7 commands, not available in PowerShell 5 or 6 for example. Or just use VS Code! Firstly ensure you have PowerShell 7 installed … Read more
We’ll create user called “dave” to use within a Kubernetes cluster, I’m using Minikube in this case. Create Private Key Create the private key: Create and Sign the CSR Now create the Certificate Signing Request (CSR): Now on this the subject is important. Here you are defining their username (CN), “dave” in this case, and … Read more
A quick way to see the API Resources for your Kubernetes cluster is via the command: You get an output such as the following: Let’s take a quick look at some of the resources available. The api-resources “pods” for example is under the “v1” ApiVersion, hence why when you are creating your YAML file for … Read more
You would think that pinging something would be simple, but turns out there is a bit more to it when pinging using IPv6. If you need to ping something from one router to another using IPv4, you can specify the “from” address so the router knows out of which interface (VLAN) it needs to send … Read more
Multicast can be very complex, its sometimes handy to be able to just test multicast yourself between two machines on the network. VLC Media Player allows you to do this quite easily. Configure Server (Sender) Firstly get yourself a video file you wish to multicast stream out across your network and place it on the … Read more
I always find this a bit of a confusing one, just running a “no lacp key” doesn’t work, what you actually need to do is set it to “default”. So for example let’s say you have a LACP key assigned to interface 1/13 which you want to remove, its as simple as running the following … Read more
IPerf is a tool that can be used to measure the bandwidth and quality of a network link. Its a useful little tool, so I’ll introduce some of the basics of how you can use it to perform some tests. Bear in mind this is not an exhaustive guide, there are many tweaks that can … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more