Game Cataloging

With any type of collecting hobby, you need some way to catalog your collection.  I use CLZ games to catalog my games.  It's available as an Android/IOS app, and you can access via the web as well by hitting    .  It is extremely useful and it's one of only 3 apps I've bought on my phone.  The software doesn't limit itself to only games.  Another version of the app does movies, music and books cataloging as well.  Your items automatically get's sync'd to the cloud so you do not need to worry about backing up when switching phones.  It will automatically sync back all your data upon a new installation of the software.  You can add games by scanning the bar code of the box and if its in the CLZ's database, then it will add it with all the information about the game for you.  You can try it out for free.  I think you can add up to 50 items on the free version.

8 bit nostalgia itch.

Today, I started to dig out my Nintendo games again.  My favorite cart label design is Baseball.  I don't think there is a better artwork on a Nintendo game out there.  Gameplay for Baseball is little to be desired as this was one of the original releases and developers hadn't learn to use the complete capabilities of the NES at that point.  The graphics looks very pixelated even for 8 bit standard compared to games later in the NES' life.  Even so, I like to take this out and play it once in a while.  I am trying to collect all these black box games (I think there are around 30?) and its taken a while to find for a good price.  I've got half of them so far.  Below is what I'm missing.  Any one interested in trading, drop me a note.  

-Clu Clu Land

-Donkey Kong Arcade Classic Series

-Donkey Kong 3

-Donkey Kong Jr.

-Donkey Kong Jr. Math

-Gumshoe

-Ice Climber

-Pinball

-Slalom

-Soccer

-Popeye

-Stack-Up

-Urban Champion

-Volleyball

-Wrecking Crew

Paso Robles stay over.

On our way back, we had a stay over half way between SD and our home in a city called Paso Robles, CA.  It's better known for its wineries.  We're not into wine so we made sure we had a good hotel since we're going to be staying in there most of the day to get a break from driving.  We stayed in a hotel called La Bellasera Hotel.  It's a 4 star hotel and probably one of the best hotels we've stayed at.  It's got a spa/jacuzzi inside the hotel room.  Check out this hotel if you're planning a stay in Paso Robles.  Next morning, we finished our drive home with a total of 1189 miles logged for the entire (LA/SD) trip.

Link to La Bellasera hotel map.

Good bye San Diego.

In a day and a half, we went to LA Jolla, Old Town San Diego and Balboa Park along with a couple of boba tea stores.  We also went to some nice restaurants.  We will check out this morning of our hotel, which by the way was really nice, and head to LA for lunch.  Then it's on to Paso Robles.

  

San Diego road trip!

Taking a short vacation, 5 days, and driving down to San Diego with a stop in Los Angeles. 

Not looking forward for the LA traffic however.

APC PDU Communication Status error.

Running APC's AP8641 model pdu's and we have several of them that is popping up with the following errors.  When this happens, it does not report any power loads.  I've tried to replace the LCD/Management module with a new one but the error exists.  I know that this issue is not model specific as I've had others models happen.   APC support recommended doing a factory reset (you will lose all settings) and upgrading the firmware to the latest, both of which I've tried.  Wondering if anyone has run into this issue before.

Change Network Failover Detection Policy on vSwitches and portgroups.

Need to change the NetworkFailoverDetectionPolicy for all your vSwithes and portgroups?  The following script traverses all clusters and host to check the NetworkFailoverDetectionPolicy for Beacon Probing.  If its Beacon Probing, change it to Link Status.

#import-module VMware.VimAutomation.Core

#Connect-VIServer -Server vcenter_hostname

#uncomment for testing

#$vmhosts = "hostname1","hostname2"

　

#uncomment for live run

#get the hostnames of all the hosts in every cluster

$vmhosts = get-cluster | get-vmhost | select name

foreach($vmhost in $vmhosts)

{

    #Gets all the vSwitch names that has beacon probing set on the host.

    $switch_policy = Get-VirtualSwitch -VMHost $vmhost.Name | where {$_.Name -ne "vSwitchiDRACvusb"} | Get-NicTeamingPolicy | Where-Object {$_.NetworkFailoverDetectionPolicy -eq "BeaconProbing"} | select -ExpandProperty VirtualSwitch # | select VirtualSwitch | format-wide

    if ($switch_policy)

    {

        foreach ($switch in $switch_policy)

        {

            $vs = Get-VirtualSwitch -VMHost $vmhost.Name -Name $switch

            Get-NicTeamingPolicy -VirtualSwitch $vs | Set-NicTeamingPolicy -NetworkFailoverDetectionPolicy LinkStatus

        }

    }

　

    #Gets all the port group names that has beacon probing set on the host.

    $portgroup_policy = Get-VirtualPortGroup -VMHost $vmhost | Get-NicTeamingPolicy | Where-Object {$_.NetworkFailoverDetectionPolicy -eq "BeaconProbing"} | select -ExpandProperty VirtualPortGroup

    if ($portgroup_policy)

    {

        foreach ($p in $portgroup_policy)

        {

            #Sets the nicteamingpolicy from the host and its portgroup.

            $vpg = Get-VirtualPortGroup -VMHost $vmhost.Name -Name $p

            Get-NicTeamingPolicy -VirtualPortGroup $vpg | Set-NicTeamingPolicy -NetworkFailoverDetectionPolicy LinkStatus

        }

    }

}

Find overcommited compute resources in VMWare.

The following commands requires PowerCLI to run.

Get-MemoryOvercommit -Cluster "Cluster Name"

Get-CPUOvercommit -Cluster "Cluster Name"

Get space utilization of all disk from a computer

[CmdletBinding ()]

param(

        [Parameter(Mandatory =$True, ValueFromPipeline=$True )]

        [string[]] $ComputerName

    )

ForEach ( $Name in $ComputerName ) {

    write-host "Drive info for " $Name

    Get-WmiObject -Class win32_logicaldisk -ComputerName $Name |

ft DeviceID , @{Name= "Free Disk Space (GB)";e= {$_.FreeSpace /1GB }}, @{Name ="Total Disk Size (GB)";e ={$_ .Size / 1GB}} -AutoSize

} 

VMWare vSphere 6.7 is out.

Some new features of vSphere 6.7

-HTML 5 Client

        More features enabled such as vSAN and core storage.

-UNMAP Enhancements

        Able to adjust reclaim rate.  6.5 has a rate of 25MBps.  6.7 can go to 2GBps.

-vSAN 6.7

        QOS Resyncing of data.

        On-Disk Format 6

                -No more actual data moves or evacuation to upgrade a disk format.  Going forward, it will just be meta-data upgrades.

        FIPS 140-2 Encryption.

        

https://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2018/04/introducing-vmware-vsphere-6-7.html