This Wiki thing is dedicated to code snippets and other technical stuff that I gathered during my work at VMware as a technical support engineer (TSE).

As a quick introduction, I have been in IT in one form or another for over 20 years. Currently, my work at VMware is to support the storage subsystems, including FC, iSCSI, NFS…etc as well as the proprietary filesystem VMFS.

This was my original job, however, VMware decided to merge the Storage, Networking and Fault groups under one umbrella: Infrastructure.

While my primary focus is still Storage, I am also proficient in things like VDP, SRM, and PSODs. My favourite by far is SRM.

In 2016, VMware decided to shutdown the Canada support office. So now, I am “The VMware Guy” at Dell/EMC engineering labs. I miss SRM very much, but I learned a heck of a lot more about vCloud, VRA, VC, XtremIO, Python and PowerCLI.

-nick

List of stuff included here:

• VMWare:
  • How to find empty delta files
  • How to resginature or force mount a snapshot LUN
  • How to traceroute inside ESXi
  • vSphere Replication fails with Unknown Controller Type
  • Replication is already enabled
  • SRM and VNXe Cannot Create PG
  • Why SQL backup fails
  • Some VDP/Avamar mccli useful commands
  • Configure ESXi dump file location
  • Who is locking that file?

• Misc Linux:
  • General notes to tweak Mailcow
  • Overrides for copying/cold-standby volumes

Other stuff:

• Millennia Year Application Software System
• List of small scripts that I use