Larry Smith Jr.

Exploring and sharing practical insights on virtualization, cloud technologies, automation, and DevOps. My mission is to empower others to build, automate, and innovate with confidence.

Everything Should Be Virtual - Virtualization, Automation, Infrastructure

vSphere 5.5 - Enable SNMP

January 28, 2014 1 minute read

I am going through setting up Solarwinds Virtual Manager and needed to enable SNMP on my vSphere 5.5 hosts. So the service set to automatically start but it ...

vSphere 5.5 - HP Smart Storage Administrator CLI - Emulate SSD

January 27, 2014 4 minute read

So I was sitting around over the weekend and decided I wanted to mess around with vSAN in a non nested environment for a bit and started going over some opti...

PowerCLI – Change vSphere iSCSI Path Selection

January 22, 2014 1 minute read

Here is just a quick PowerCLI script to change all of your iSCSI datastores to “Round Robin” path selection. The default path selection for all datastores is...

ZFS and BTRFS Bitrot Avoidance?

January 16, 2014 less than 1 minute read

Have you ever heard of bitrot? Well if not you should head over to here and have a read. I was sent this article by a colleague and I thought it was a very i...

PowerCLI Script to add Syslog Servers

December 12, 2013 less than 1 minute read

I was asked earlier about this. So I figured I would throw this together real quick. There was a concern about adding syslog server settings to an enormous n...