David Muegge's Blog http://muegge.com/blog IT Eclectia - A variety technical topics and tips. Sun, 08 Aug 2010 20:32:38 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en VMWare SRM using HDS AMS 2000 I have been working recently configuring VMWare SRM using Hitachi AMS 2000 arrays. This has not been the most straightforward or well documented process. I hope this post will save someone else a little time. In this post I will focus on the configuration and the required prerequisites for the HDS ... http://muegge.com/blog/?p=142 HDS AMS 2000 Storage Resource Reporting with PowerShell Welcome! I have been creating a few PowerShell scripts for use with the HDS AMS 2000 array. One thing I found I needed was a quick way to look at DP(Dynamic Provisioning) pools, raid groups, and LUNs. I also wanted to be able to see the associations and filter easily. Since ... http://muegge.com/blog/?p=128 HDS AMS 2000 Performance Analysis with PowerShell and PowerGadgets Welcome! It has been a while since my last post due to a very busy schedule with a SAN and virtualization project. I have been working on an implementation of a HDS AMS 2500 midrange array for a VMWare vShere 4 environment. So far everything has been working and performing well. The ... http://muegge.com/blog/?p=114 Exchange DB Reporting with PowerShell and Log Parser I ran across a useful post today as I was roaming through Google Analytics. Using PowerShell, LogParser and PowerGadgets to get Exchange 2003 storage information – Part 1 Wes Stahler uses Log Parser and PowerShell to report on the free space in an Exchange Database. This is a task I have done in ... http://muegge.com/blog/?p=112 ADAM Administration with SharePoint and PowerShell Welcome! Recently I worked on finding a simple way to create a web based administrative interface for an ADAM directory. The requirements were to create a simple web based interface to allow business personnel to manage users and groups for an application directory. It was also desirable if this solution would ... http://muegge.com/blog/?p=101 Connection History with PowerShell and NetStat Welcome! This is a little trick some might find useful. I was working on decommissioning some servers and I needed a way to find out what was connecting to these machines. I decided to create a script to log connections. I have done this in the past in various ways which ... http://muegge.com/blog/?p=99 PowerShell, Log Parser, PowerGadgets, and GeoIP what fun! Welcome! One day I was pondering how I might use log parser to map visitors to a website by state. I am aware this is easily done with tools like Google Analytics, but I was interested in using existing logs for the info. Using the PowerShell and Log Parser functions from the ... http://muegge.com/blog/?p=93 Automated Machine Builds with PowerShell and AutoIT I have been using PowerShell recently to create scripted builds for virtual machines. This method provides some benefits over imaging. A single base image per OS can be used Applications which have issues with imaging can be easily installed such as SQL Server, BizTalk, Exchange, Etc. Scripted installs can be changed or updated ... http://muegge.com/blog/?p=73 Log Parser and PowerShell – Part II Welcome back! Last post I talked about using the Log Parser executable from PowerShell. I also briefly mentioned the Log Parser COM component. In this post I will go into more depth on using the COM component from PowerShell. The COM component exposes a simple object model consisting of only three main ... http://muegge.com/blog/?p=65 Log Parser and PowerShell – Part I Welcome! Log Parser and PowerShell are both great tools and they work well when used together. Yes, you can do pretty much everything Log Parser does with PowerShell alone, but part of PowerShell's mission is to better leverage current tools. I believe this is an excellent example. Also it has been ... http://muegge.com/blog/?p=62