I thought I would write a post about using Subversion (SVN) with PowerCLI for managing changes to Infrastructure, with the aim of reducing report emails in my inbox, and reduce the amount of storage space required to store a set [...]
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Using Subversion with PowerCLI for vCentre operations
15 May 2013 – 12:16 pm
Simple bash one-liner to ping an entire network range
21 November 2012 – 12:32 pm
Just a quick post… I knocked this one-liner up as a lazy way of finding out what addresses will answer a ping on a particular address range. I used the ‘seq’ command in Linux to produce the address numbers from [...]
A Tale of Corporate Storage Evolution – switching from HP to DELL
22 August 2012 – 12:35 pm
I thought I would share some of my thoughts on how I have seen our server and storage platforms evolve over time. What I loved about them, what I hated about them, where I am at today and what made [...]
Can’t Believe DB2 does not have this function – Convert seconds to hours, minutes and seconds
14 June 2012 – 8:14 pm
For the third in the series and possibly the last I am going to look at the little doosie that was presented to me the other day where the seconds of time passed from a system are presented as an integer and [...]
Running Thoroughbred BASIC on Amazon EC2
9 June 2012 – 3:18 pm
This is a quick blog post going over the steps needed to run Thoroughbred BASIC on Amazons EC2 platform, purely as proof of concept using the 30 day Eval available on the installation media. I wanted to see if it [...]
DB2 RAND()
23 February 2012 – 1:52 pm
Not done this for a while with moving house and looks like it will still be difficult with BT messing up the telephone lines in the building, but O2 are providing no end of support. So thought I would do [...]
Configuring ESXi VDR FLR on SuSE Linux SLES 11 x86_64
29 January 2012 – 6:06 pm
I’ve written the following post as it took me a while to figure out how to get SLES Linux File based restore from within a VMDK on ESXi. By default there is support for Debian Guest and RedHat, There is [...]