Posted by jpluimers on 2019/05/07
For my link archive:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2019/05/07
I hope that by now they are available for more Delphi versions:
Some other posts around the Debug Visualiser topic:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2019/05/07
Two posts with interesting commands to help digging through your hba/disk/datastore configurations from the console:
One day I will write a script that – per datastore – lists all the devices related to it including their HBA and LUN.
For that, I will likely need these references:
For now this works:
Device Name column has the NAA_ID you need below):esxcli storage vmfs extent listHBA, Channel, Target and LUN:esxcli storage core path list --device NAA_IDesxcli storage core adapter listModel and Revision):esxcli storage core device list --device NAA_IDThe example below (with most important output bolded) shows a drive connected to a SAS3008 based controller which storcli cannot access (nor MegaCli), but MegaRAID Storage Manager (MSM) can.
MSM allowed me to find the serial number of the drive by the Target Transport Details value 4433221106000000 as being on Slot number 6 (which seems to indicate Target numbers are 1-based whereas LUN is 0-based).
# esxcli storage vmfs extent list Volume Name VMFS UUID Extent Number Device Name Partition ------------------------------ ----------------------------------- ------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------- ... ST6000VX0001-1SH 59a33f7b-66df7c00-11b0-0cc47aaa9742 0 naa.5000c50087762d1b 1 # esxcli storage core path list -d naa.5000c50087762d1b sas.500304801ce1d700-sas.4433221106000000-naa.5000c50087762d1b UID: sas.500304801ce1d700-sas.4433221106000000-naa.5000c50087762d1b Runtime Name: vmhba0:C0:T7:L0 Device: naa.5000c50087762d1b Device Display Name: Local ATA Disk (naa.5000c50087762d1b) Adapter: vmhba0 Channel: 0 Target: 7 LUN: 0 Plugin: NMP State: active Transport: sas Adapter Identifier: sas.500304801ce1d700 Target Identifier: sas.4433221106000000 Adapter Transport Details: 500304801ce1d700 Target Transport Details: 4433221106000000 Maximum IO Size: 4194304 # esxcli storage core adapter list HBA Name Driver Link State UID Capabilities Description -------- ------------ ---------- -------------------- ------------ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- vmhba0 lsi_msgpt3 link-n/a sas.500304801ce1d700 (0000:01:00.0) Avago (LSI Logic) Fusion-MPT 12GSAS SAS3008 PCI-Express ... vmhba32 vmkusb link-n/a usb.vmhba32 () USB # esxcli storage core device list --device naa.5000c50087762d1b naa.5000c50087762d1b Display Name: Local ATA Disk (naa.5000c50087762d1b) Has Settable Display Name: true Size: 5723166 Device Type: Direct-Access Multipath Plugin: NMP Devfs Path: /vmfs/devices/disks/naa.5000c50087762d1b Vendor: ATA Model: ST6000VX0001-1SH Revision: VN02 SCSI Level: 6 Is Pseudo: false Status: on Is RDM Capable: true Is Local: true Is Removable: false Is SSD: false Is VVOL PE: false Is Offline: false Is Perennially Reserved: false Queue Full Sample Size: 0 Queue Full Threshold: 0 Thin Provisioning Status: unknown Attached Filters: VAAI Status: unsupported Other UIDs: vml.02000000005000c50087762d1b535436303030 Is Shared Clusterwide: false Is Local SAS Device: true Is SAS: true Is USB: false Is Boot USB Device: false Is Boot Device: false Device Max Queue Depth: 32 No of outstanding IOs with competing worlds: 32 Drive Type: physical RAID Level: NA Number of Physical Drives: 1 Protection Enabled: false PI Activated: false PI Type: 0 PI Protection Mask: NO PROTECTION Supported Guard Types: NO GUARD SUPPORT DIX Enabled: false DIX Guard Type: NO GUARD SUPPORT Emulated DIX/DIF Enabled: false
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2019/05/06
The quickest way for me to clear the Chrome browser cache is to:
Done.
Much faster than [WayBack] Clear cache & cookies – Computer – Google Account Help: When you use a browser, like Chrome, it saves some information from websites in its cache and cookies. Clearing them fixes certain problems, like loading or formatting issues on sites.In Chrome
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2019/05/06
On my research list:
Borg
Deduplicating archiver
with compression and encryptionBorgBackup (short: Borg) gives you:
- Space efficient storage of backups.
- Secure, authenticated encryption.
- Compression: LZ4, zlib, LZMA.
- Mountable backups with FUSE.
- Easy installation on multiple platforms: Linux, macOS, BSD, …
- Free software (BSD license).
- Backed by a large and active open source community.
Source: [WayBack] BorgBackup – Deduplicating archiver with compression and authenticated encryption
Repositories:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2019/05/06
This is an interesting question at [WayBack] How can I lower the ESXI acceptance level when a forced install has been done? – Server Fault.
The default level on ESXi 6.5 is this:
# esxcli software acceptance get
PartnerSupported
Since I had ghettoVCB installed with the -f option, installing any PartnerSupported VIB would result in this error:
[DependencyError] VIB virtuallyGhetto_bootbank_ghettoVCB_1.0.0-0.0.0 violates extensibility rule checks: ['(line 24: col 0) Element vib failed to validate content'] VIB virtuallyGhetto_bootbank_ghettoVCB_1.0.0-0.0.0's acceptance level is community, which is not compliant with the ImageProfile acceptance level partner To change the host acceptance level, use the 'esxcli software acceptance set' command. Please refer to the log file for more details.
This fails:
# esxcli software acceptance set --level=CommunitySupported
[AcceptanceConfigError]
Unable to set acceptance level of community due to installed VIBs virtuallyGhetto_bootbank_ghettoVCB_1.0.0-0.0.0 having a lower acceptance level.
Please refer to the log file for more details.
The workaround is to uninstall virtuallyGhetto_bootbank_ghettoVCB_1.0.0-0.0.0, then install thePartnerSupportedVIB, then re-install ghettoVCB with the --force option or with lowered acceptance level:
esxcli software vib remove -n ghettoVCB/tmpcd /tmp && unzip /vmfs/volumes/Samsung512NVME/base/VIB/vghetto-ghettoVCB-offline-bundle.zipesxcli software vib install -v /tmp/vib20/ghettoVCB/virtuallyGhetto_bootbank_ghettoVCB_1.0.0-0.0.0.vib -f/tmp thenesxcli software vib install -v /tmp/vghetto-ghettoVCB.vib -a–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2019/05/04
A reminder to myself: about half a year ago, [WayBack] Flickr announces changes From http://flickr.com/lookingahead we note the following: Free accounts will soon be limited to 1,000 photos or videos. Flick… – Jeff Diver – Google+
Free members with more than 1,000 photos or videos uploaded to Flickr will no longer be able to upload new content after Tuesday, January 8, 2019 unless they upgrade to Pro. After February 5, 2019, free accounts that contain over 1,000 photos or videos will have content deleted — starting from oldest to newest date uploaded — to meet the new limit. Members may always choose to download content over the limit at any time prior to these dates.
I had been a Flickr Pro subscriber for a long time, but the social interactions where mweh, and I had far less storage than the free tier anyway, so I let the Pro expire.
With about 33k photos, I seem to have no other options than to:
Time to make a decision in a month or so…
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2019/05/03
Blurring is like a hash function: it cannot be undone, but with enough plain text to blur examples, you can reconstruct the plain text: [WayBack] Why blurring sensitive information is a bad idea | dheera.net | Dheera Venkatraman’s web site
As an alternative, randomly add noise or move pixels. I used [WayBack] Censoring image in GIMP – Graphic Design Stack Exchange. For the example on the right, I used “Filters → Noise → Spread” from the Stack Exchange answer.
With enough randomness, it is much harder to construct plain/hash combinations.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2019/05/03
Interesting trick explained at [WayBack] Cleaning SILVER WITHOUT losing the Ag! which works very quickly as you can see in the below video.
What happens is that you transform Silver-Sulfide plus Aluminium into Silver plus Aluminium-Sulfide.
After that, the [WayBack] Aluminium-Sulfide reacts with water and transforms into Aluminium-Hydroxide and Hydrogen-Sulfide. The latter smells like rotten eggs, so better do this in a well ventilated area.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2019/05/03
So I won’t forget:
Direct download links in September 2017:
[WayBack] How to upgrade LSI MegaRaid SAS controller firmware using FreeDOS – Teksupport.in
Notes:
MegaRAID SAS 9260-8i in the Product Name field.
lsiprovider*.* note SIMS should have been written as SIM-S and is an implementation of CIM and WBEM:
/tmpesxcli software vib install -f -v /tmp/vmware-esx-provider-lsiprovider.vibesxcli system wbem set --enable trueA few tricky things to get right:
0.0.0.0)Great installation steps:
/tmpesxcli software vib install -f -v /tmp/VmwareMN/vmware-esx-MegaCli-8.07.07.vibNow you can the command /opt/lsi/MegaCLI/MegaCli (yes the casing of these two is different!) but you must to it in that directory, or ensure the LD_LIBARY_PATH contains /opt/lsi/MegaCLI.
Based on [WayBack] StorCLI unter VMware vSphere installieren – Thomas-Krenn-Wiki
/tmp**esxcli software vib install -f -v /tmp/storcli_All_OS/Vmware-OP/vmware-esx-storcli-1.23.02.vibNow you can the command /opt/lsi/storcli/storcli but you must to it in that directory, or ensure the LD_LIBARY_PATH contains /opt/lsi/storcli.
Example:
execute-storcli.sh /cALL show all | grep 'Controller = \|Model = \|Serial Number = \|Firmware'a
The vib file in "Vmware-NDS/" folder works with native driver. The vib file in "Vmware-MN/" folder works with VMKlinux driver.
So I did a bit more searching based on the files in the VMware directories and came up with this list:
storcli_All_OS/Vmware/storcli.zip
storcli_All_OS/Vmware-MN/vmware-esx-storcli-1.23.02.vib wit storcli_All_OS/Vmware-MN/VMWARE_MN_Readme.txt
vmklinux drivers that are being phased out with ESXi 5.5 and upstorcli_All_OS/Vmware-OP/vmware-esx-storcli-1.23.02.vib with storcli_All_OS/Vmware-OP/VMWARE_MN_NDS_Readme.txt
New Driver architecture introduced with ESXi 5.5 and used more and more since thenBackground reading:
** unzip doesn’t work:
# unzip -d /tmp/ 1.23.02_StorCLI.zip
Archive: 1.23.02_StorCLI.zip
inflating: 1.23.02_StorCLI.txt
unzip: short read
But a combination of 7za and unzip does work:
# 7za x -o/tmp/ 1.23.02_StorCLI.zip 7-Zip (a) [32] 16.02 : Copyright (c) 1999-2016 Igor Pavlov : 2016-05-21 p7zip Version 16.02 (locale=en_US.UTF-8,Utf16=on,HugeFiles=on,32 bits,20 CPUs Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2630L v4 @ 1.80GHz (406F1),ASM,AES-NI) Scanning the drive for archives: 1 file, 48778476 bytes (47 MiB) Extracting archive: 1.23.02_StorCLI.zip -- Path = 1.23.02_StorCLI.zip Type = zip Physical Size = 48778476 Everything is Ok Files: 2 Size: 48928561 Compressed: 48778476 # unzip -d /tmp/ /tmp/storcli_All_OS.zip Archive: /tmp/storcli_All_OS.zip creating: storcli_All_OS/ creating: storcli_All_OS/EFI/ inflating: storcli_All_OS/EFI/license.txt creating: storcli_All_OS/EFI/UDK/ inflating: storcli_All_OS/EFI/UDK/license.txt inflating: storcli_All_OS/EFI/UDK/storcli.efi creating: storcli_All_OS/FreeBSD/ inflating: storcli_All_OS/FreeBSD/FreeBSD_readme.txt inflating: storcli_All_OS/FreeBSD/license.txt inflating: storcli_All_OS/FreeBSD/storcli.tar inflating: storcli_All_OS/FreeBSD/storcli64.tar creating: storcli_All_OS/Linux/ inflating: storcli_All_OS/Linux/license.txt inflating: storcli_All_OS/Linux/LINUX_Readme.txt inflating: storcli_All_OS/Linux/storcli-1.23.02-1.noarch.rpm creating: storcli_All_OS/Linux-OEL-Sparc/ inflating: storcli_All_OS/Linux-OEL-Sparc/license_OELSparc.txt inflating: storcli_All_OS/Linux-OEL-Sparc/storcli64-1.23.02-1.sparc64.rpm creating: storcli_All_OS/Linux-ppc/ creating: storcli_All_OS/Linux-ppc/Big Endian/ inflating: storcli_All_OS/Linux-ppc/Big Endian/license.txt inflating: storcli_All_OS/Linux-ppc/Big Endian/storcli.tar creating: storcli_All_OS/Linux-ppc/Little Endian/ inflating: storcli_All_OS/Linux-ppc/Little Endian/license.txt inflating: storcli_All_OS/Linux-ppc/Little Endian/Readme.txt inflating: storcli_All_OS/Linux-ppc/Little Endian/storcli64_1.23.02_ppc64el.deb creating: storcli_All_OS/Solaris/ inflating: storcli_All_OS/Solaris/license.txt inflating: storcli_All_OS/Solaris/SOLARIS_Readme.txt inflating: storcli_All_OS/Solaris/storcli.pkg creating: storcli_All_OS/Solaris Sparc/ inflating: storcli_All_OS/Solaris Sparc/license.txt inflating: storcli_All_OS/Solaris Sparc/storcli.pkg creating: storcli_All_OS/Ubuntu/ inflating: storcli_All_OS/Ubuntu/read_me.txt inflating: storcli_All_OS/Ubuntu/storcli_1.23.02_all.deb creating: storcli_All_OS/Vmware/ inflating: storcli_All_OS/Vmware/license.txt creating: storcli_All_OS/Vmware/Linux/ inflating: storcli_All_OS/Vmware/Linux/storcliKL-1.23.02-1.noarch.rpm inflating: storcli_All_OS/Vmware/Rel_read_me.txt.txt inflating: storcli_All_OS/Vmware/storcli.zip creating: storcli_All_OS/Vmware/Windows/ inflating: storcli_All_OS/Vmware/Windows/StorCLIKL.zip creating: storcli_All_OS/Vmware-MN/ inflating: storcli_All_OS/Vmware-MN/license.txt inflating: storcli_All_OS/Vmware-MN/vmware-esx-storcli-1.23.02.vib inflating: storcli_All_OS/Vmware-MN/VMWARE_MN_Readme.txt creating: storcli_All_OS/Vmware-OP/ inflating: storcli_All_OS/Vmware-OP/license.txt inflating: storcli_All_OS/Vmware-OP/vmware-esx-storcli-1.23.02.vib inflating: storcli_All_OS/Vmware-OP/VMWARE_MN_NDS_Readme.txt creating: storcli_All_OS/Windows/ inflating: storcli_All_OS/Windows/license.txt inflating: storcli_All_OS/Windows/storcli.exe inflating: storcli_All_OS/Windows/storcli64.exe inflating: storcli_All_OS/Windows/WIN_ReadMe.txt
/tmpunzip -d /tmp/ /tmp/12.15.0-0239_MR_2108_SAS_FW_2.130.403-4660.zip0 is the controller number, execute/opt/lsi/storcli/storcli /c0 download file=/tmp/mr2108fw.rom–jeroen
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 