So it’s been close to a year since I took this tool out of the murky depths of my ~/code folder and put it on GitHub and during the last twelve months, I have made some minor improvements here and there. But since I’ve been using it, I found although it documents the contents of the DFW configuration well enough, …
Read MoreAutomation is one of several tech buzz words of late, and it’s one that has caught on amongst most infrastructure/networking folk. The tech behind the buzzword is Ansible, AWS CloudFormation, vRealize, etc. which provide the capability to automate your infrastructure and start treating infrastructure as code or just to …
Read MoreSo instead of using the old point-click method of navigating NSX to find an IP address, firewall rule or service definition, I often find myself using PowerNSX to find that same information. Using PowerNSX comes with the added bonus of extreme speed i.e. not using the pointy-clicky method! Below you’ll find some of …
Read MoreDocumenting firewall configuration is challenging at the best of times, in most enterprise networks there are tens of thousands of lines of ACLs that have been added organically over time to any number of firewalls. Documentation of said policy is normally the actual configuration that you see on the console in front …
Read MoreQuick script to find all VM’s running in a Hyper-V cluster (Windows 2012). You will need to run this command on a Hyper-V host in powershell. 1$clusterNodes = Get-ClusterNode; 2ForEach($item in $clusterNodes) 3{Get-VM -ComputerName $item.Name; }
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