This is a VM clone/”backup” script that I use in my home lab. I schedule this script to make a clone of important VMs (works with vCenter) and clones them to another datastore. Obveusly this is not a proper backup but if I make a config change or lose a datastore then this will (and…
Author: jase
File deletion scripts
I get asked quite alot at work to monitor folders and delete files older then x days or stop them growing out of control. These folders are normaly FTP backups of things that do not age out. Like config backups (NSX im looking at you). There are a couple of ways to do this. The…
Edge Gateway export script
I have been searching for something that will export/audit an Edge gateways firewall and NAT rules or over a year. Although not perfect, this export is better then typing out an edge config in to excel one rule at a time. More so now as I have almost removed one of my fingers with a…
NetApp performance monitoring using Powershell
I recently had to run some monitoring commands to gather information while a backup was running. So I used Powershell. I needed to SSH on to the FAS and run the following: So why should I do that when I can get Powershell to do it. Here is a quick bit of Powershell to SSH…
FreeNAS, Disks and zPools
In this post we will add disks to the FreeNAS server and configure them in to a zPool. For this post we will use a ZFS equivalent of a RAID 10 but I will demonstrate all the other RAID options. Go to Storage and Disks to see a list of disks. This is not very…
FreeNAS, iSCSI setup
To get a zvol shared out on a network and visible to clients we need to set up the iSCSI service. This is not as bad as it used to be in the older interfaces. The iSCSI config can be reached from Sharing / Block Shares (iSCSI) or Services / iSCSI.Just remember to check that…
FreeNas build and setup
This series of posts will detail the build and configuration of a FreeNAS (TrueNas core) server version 11.3u1 in a homelab environment. For this series I am building a virtual FreeNAS server in ESXi. I have a physical FreeNAS server built out of an old mini tower with desktop hardware. This is certainly not an…
FreeNAS, IP setup
We have installed the FreeNAS OS on to disk. The next step is to configure the management NIC so we can access the server across the network. At this point on our physical screen or VM console we should be looking at the boot config console setup menu. Press 1 (and enter) to configure the…
FreeNAS, Data NIC
Before we can start presenting data over to iSCSI clients we need a dedicated NIC on the same network segment as those clients. In this post we will configure the second NIC using the web interface. Go to Network and then InterfacesHere we have our two NICs, em0 has been configured as management and we…
Snapshot Deletion script
This is a script I wrote to delete snapshots over a certian age wth an override. The override is in the name of the snapshot, so the snapshot can be deleted after x days or after a date. If the snapshot is named “my snapshot _ DeleteAfter60days” the script will look for “DeleteAfter” or “DA”…