Archive for May, 2012

So, I went and was recently able to take the vsphere 5.0 Installing, Managing and configuring course which is the prerequisite to getting the certification (Minus of course the test) and I’ve been bombarded with useful information. With such a simple interface, who would have ever known there is so much behind that very user [...]

Formula to calculate IOPS Per Disk

Posted: 15th May 2012 by Ben in For the Technical

I thought this was an interesting topic after listening to some discussion in the VMWare class that I’m in: Article posted on NetAPP Blog

It has been way busy the past few months, so I apologize for the lack of updates. I will probably go to 2-3 times a week now as I will continually be busy with projects. Next week I’ve got the privilege to head up to the great state of Georgia for some V sphere training [...]

For people who like the old fashioned VBScript prompt box, I love to use this little tidbit: $a = new-object -comobject MSScriptControl.ScriptControl $a.language = “vbscript” $a.addcode(“function getInput() getInput = inputbox(`”Text above text box`”,`”Title Bar`”) end function” ) $b = $a.eval(“getInput”) #example code to pass variable gwmi win32_processor -computer $b | Format-List systemName Fancy! Read more [...]

C:\WINDOWS\system32\LogFiles\W3SVC1 THAT’S WHERE! This is for my own usage because google hates me. Gaw… They are setup by date

Got a lot of computers you want to change the local admin password on? Do it the powershell way. Say you got that crazy employee who used to eat lunch in his car that came back smelling like mouthwash after lunch that never quite acted right. One day you come in and he is gone [...]

I do a lot of other things other then Powershell in my day to day job as a Systems Administrator, I just _really_ like Powershell. Another thing I really like is NetAPP storage administration. NetAPP is by far the easiest and coolest storage system out there. I’m going to start posting more things about NetAPP [...]

Just wanted to share this, hopefully someone can get some use off of it. I was recently writing a script to do a morning test on a series of computers and I thought I would use the Try/Catch/Finally method to do so. Essentially it will do everything I need to do. First: I can present [...]

Google Easter Eggs!

Posted: 2nd May 2012 by Ben in For the News

I thought this was pretty cool, here is a list of some google easter eggs: 1) Go to Google and do a search for “zerg rush” you have only a little bit of time to destroy them with your mouse and it keeps your score! 2) If you go to google maps and type your [...]

Update- Broke my website!

Posted: 1st May 2012 by Ben in For the Technical

It’s been a busy last few weeks, after the Scripting Games I took off for a while for some honeydo’s. I’m kind of getting back on track now. I was doing some general maintenance on my site and it was down for about 4 hours this morning, came back and it wasn’t working but it [...]