3Par sdelete.exe replacement for CSV’s

So we have a very nice 3Par system that uses thin provisioned volumes. How do we keep these thin?. Well if u use a mountpoint u can use the script posted here A PowerShell Alternative to SDelete by Chris Duck. If u use direct driveletters in Windows u can use sdelete.exe from Sysinternals but what ...Read More

Monitor Microsoft Cluster Shared Volumes with PRTG – Microsoft CSV

So I don’t know if PRTG already supports Microsoft CSV’s but I still see some questions in the knowledgebase from people asking about this. Therefore I decided to share my script’s for monitoring the Microsoft CSV’s that I wrote. If everything goes well u should end up with something like this. I’ve been using these ...Read More

Cluster shared volume information script to match physical disks

Powershell script to match you’re cluster shared volumes to physical disks. #PS 27-04-2011 #CSVinfo.ps1 Import-Module FailoverClusters $AllCSVs = Get-ClusterSharedVolume $AllDisks = Get-WmiObject Win32_DiskDrive foreach ($Csv in $AllCSVs) { $CSVParams = Get-ClusterParameter -InputObject $Csv $DiskSignature = ($CSVParams | Where-object -FilterScript {$_.Name -eq “DiskSignature”}).Value $intDiskSignature = [Convert]::ToUInt32($DiskSignature,16) $Disk = ($AllDisks | Where-Object -FilterScript {$_.signature -eq $intDiskSignature}) Write-Host ...Read More

devnodeclean.x64.exe and scrubber.exe

Official .exe from Microsoft http://support.microsoft.com/kb/982210  devnodeclean.x64 http://www.hyper-p.com/wp-content/uploads/devnodeclean.x64.zip Microsoft also created a new version of scrubber…remember the one for Windows 2000 resourcekit? this one is for Windows 2008R2 also….nice…but be carefull…. scrubber http://www.hyper-p.com/wp-content/uploads/scrubber.zip    Send article as PDF   

kb2393802

carefull with patch http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2393802 http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/nl-NL/winserverwsus/thread/5f27ee0e-d6bf-4dfa-afa0-49cec67b2ec7    Send article as PDF   

Windows 2008R2 Windows 7 SP1 released

It’s here…http://support.microsoft.com/kb/976932/en-us and there goes the weekend….    Send article as PDF   

DPM and iSCSI

Never rename your iSCSI target names when running DPM. If a target holds e.g. 200 volumes, u rename it, u get 200 orhaned registry keys and 200 new under the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum\STORAGE\VolumeSnapshot. 10.001 of there and u have a problem with PlayPlay and this fills up fast with DPM (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/934234 - http://support.microsoft.com/kb/982210).    Send article as PDF ...Read More

Robocopy Loop Users Folder

Since Vista robocopy can loop through junction points like the Users -> documents and settings. Use the /XJD option to exclude junction points.    Send article as PDF   

HP Storage Mirror Software / DoubleTake move large guest’s ESX environment

If u need to migrate physical of virtual servers in a short period of time take a look at HP Storage Mirror Software. This is a very easy to use application that does the job. I needed to migrate 125 Windows 2003 ESX guest vm’s to a new ESX platform. With this software u can start ...Read More

Move the witness / quorum disk

cluster group “Cluster Group” /move    Send article as PDF