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How to produce good documentation – Part 2 – Rack and Server Diagrams
- Part 1 – The foundation of any IT infrastructure
- Part 2 – Rack and Server Diagrams
- Part 3 – Network IP’s & Interfaces
- Part 4 – Diagraming a network
- Part 5 – Diagraming your (Veeam) Backups
Oh no, diagrams! But, but, I’m not creative!
So we covered the foundation an environment in part 1, which is that hated word, which is documentation,
But that means you need diagrams, which is something most people struggle with, especially using Visio.
You’re not alone, I was the same, my documentation in my early days was shocking, and then I took on a consultancy role, where I was implementing solutions and having to produce documentation for customer. I had a steep learning curve.
So I’m going to take you into the first steps on how to diagram your Racks and the servers in them.
Visio and your stencils
So your going to need Visio, preferably 2013, but 2010 will be fine. And you need stencils of the hardware you’re creating a diagram of.
The best place to get 90% of your Visio Stencils is VisioCafe.
For others that do not appear on there, its easy enough to just google the vendor name plus Visio ;).
Here’s the file for the Visio diagrams.
Creating a diagram of your rack
So this is something I do for most of my customers, creating a diagram of the rack, mainly to show the bits I’ve stuck in, and so the customer knows which server is which, and then can refer to the rest of the document for what that bit of kit does.
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#VMworld Day 3 & 4 – Final Notes
So I didnt get a change to write up Day 3 nor Day 4, but now I’m home, I can get into it as writing blog posts and uploading pictures from your iPad to wordpress is pretty horrific to be honest, I was getting ready to launch my said iPad towards the hang space screen during the keynote. Maybe its time to update to the new iPad…
So my sessions covered EUC, VVOLS, Troubleshooting and more, with Day 4 being the best day of the whole week, I actually attended every session I was booked into.
Heres a view of the sun outside the conference center, incase your interested
VMware ESXi – Test Jumbo Packets using VMKping
So first off we need to setup Jumbo frames in a few places.
- ESXi host
- Switch the ESXi host and Storage is plugged into
- Storage device
As per VMware ESXi 5.0 and above, you need to also setup iSCSI Port Binding.
Ensuring its setup correctly
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Nimble Storage – How to configure a device in 4 steps (Using the GUI Tool)
So the last time I used a Nimble Device, I had to configure it (quite easily) using the CLI first due to connectivity constraints at the customers site.
However here is how to configure a Nimble in 4 easy steps ready for production use.
So unbox, rack and cable up your Nimble device to the network, then;
1. Load the “Nimble Setup Manager” which can be downloaded from Nimbles website. Search for your Nimble on the Network (Obviously be in the same VLAN!).
– Click on your Array and then Next
2. Enter your basic network settings and click next.
4. Accept the EULA, and you are done, you can now connect to you Nimble and setup the Production side of things, which is basically the same as this article.
Nice and short