IBM Storwize 3700 Recover Lost IP Address
KB ID 0001388 Problem While repurposing an IBM Storwize V3700 SAN, it became apparent that I didn’t know the IP addresses and they had been ‘misplaced’ by the client. Solution Arm yourself with a FAT32 formatted USB drive, and create a file on it called satask.txt. Pop your USB into the controller, and the fault light will flash for a few seconds. Now on your USB drive theres should be a file...
Hyper V: Live Migration Error 0x80071008
KB ID 0001387 Problem When attempting to perform a ‘live migration’ of a virtual machines storage, this happened. Error Invalid Parameter Code 0.80071008 Solution Oddly I had already moved one of the virtual machines drives to another cluster, before this happened, so I was a little confused. To get the migration to work, I needed to ‘unmount’ the parent VMs mounted .ISO file. The set the migration going again....
Hyper V: Get All The Guest VM IP Addresses
KB ID 0001386 Problem Getting the IP address for an individual guest VM is easy enough, but if you have a lot of guest VM’s then you need some PowerShell. Solution To get the IP’s of all the Guest VM’s on an individual Hyper-V host, use the following syntax; Get-VM | Select-Object -ExpandProperty NetworkAdapters | Select-Object VMName,IPAddresses | Format-Table -Auto Note: The entries with no IP, are either powered...
Finding Out Your Microsoft Office Licence Version
KB ID 0001385 Problem While doing some upgrades on a clients RDS farm this week, I needed to find out what version of Microsoft Office they were running. I’m not talking about Office 2013, Office 2016, etc, that’s easy to find out, (run appwiz.cpl and look in Add/Remove Programs). I’m taking about are you running a retail copy, or a volume licensed copy, or an Office 365 Office subscriptions copy. Solution For some...
Hyper-V Creating a NAT Network and vSwitch
KB ID 0001384 Problem I’m without access to all my test equipment at the moment, so when I needed to do some testing, I thought I’d use Hyper-V on my new work laptop. I needed to ‘knock up’ a quick vSwitch that would NAT my test machines, to my laptops connected NIC. Solution Open an administrative PowerShell window, and execute the following three commands. Note: You can change the values in RED to suit your...