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Snapdrive Underlying connection was closed VCenter 5 / 5.5

It seems that a 2003 server doesn’t support the new SSL options that are enabled in the VC with 5.5 (and maybe earlier).

Try changing the following (taken from the release notes, which you’ve already read? 😉 :

  • On the vCenter Server host machine, reduce the implied security by allowing the server to communicate using weak cipher suites. To do this, include the following section in the vCenter Server vpxd.cfg file, located c:\Programdata\VMware\VMware VirtualCenter:
    <config>
    ...
    <vmacore>
    ...
    <ssl>
    ...
    <cipherList>ALL</cipherList>
    ...
    </ssl>
    ...
    </vmacore>
    ...
    </config>

restart the vcenter service and it should now hopefully work.

Powersehll netapp volume resize

This script will resize any volumes on your controller that are more full than 96% and add an extra 5% on to them. You  can filter the list a little more if needed, for example I don’t attempt to resize any of our volumes that have the word “dr” in as they are snapmirror destinations.

 

 

$controllers = @(“controller1″,”controller2″)
$body=””
$resize=””
$emailto=”fillThisIn”
$emailfrom = “fillThisIn”
$emailsmtp = fillThisIn”
$emailsubject= “Drives resized”

foreach ($controller in $controllers){
connect-nacontroller $controller
$resize+= (Get-NaVol | where-object {$_.used -gt 96 } | ft -HideTableHeaders)
}

if ($resize -ne “”) {
foreach ($navol in $resize){
write-host “$navol”
Set-NaVolSize $navol +5%
$newsize = Get-NaVolSize $navol.SizeTotal
Set-NaVolAutosize $navol -Enabled
Set-NaVolAutosize $navol -MaximumSize +10%
$body += “Volume $navol on $controller script resized to $newsize and autogrow enabled `n”
}
$body += “check snapmirror destinations size for volumes above!”
send-mailmessage -to $emailto -from $emailfrom -smtpserver $emailsmtp -subject $emailsubject -body $body
}

 

Windows 8 Errors

I’ve been getting a lot of weird errors on my Windows 8 install. Amlost as if the drive is corrupt and lots of DLLs are broken. Random things such as not being able to ope the firewal properties. Not being able to change network connections. The services windows shows “failed to read description. error code 2”. I can’t uninstall anything either! Sounds like a virus. However after a bit of googling it seems to point to AMD / ATI’s “Driver cleanup utlity”. It looks like this does not work on windows 8. Hopefully you ahve a recent restore point and revert, I didn’t and am having to do a repair in stall by running setup fro the CD and “upgrading” my win 8 to win 8.

Some links are here
http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=373855
http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=373750
http://forum.notebookreview.com/alienware-m18x/710632-amd-uninstall-utility-messed-up-windows-8-a.html

Force Nexus Android Update

Want to force your Nexus to update to the latest version of Android, yet when you check it constantly say you have it? One way to do this is to wait… the other is to go to Settings>Apps>All. Find “Google services framework”. Force stop it then clear the data. After that got to the check for updates page. It should say last checked in 1970. Check for updates again and hopefully it will be there. I had to do this about 5 times before it worked, so you may have to too

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