Virtually Jason

This is just a heads-up to hopefully save someone else a bit of time and pain... but the HP Virtual Connect doesn't support SPAN or RSPAN to mirror traffic from a physical device into the chassis to, for example, a Virtual Machine.  Basically, Port Mirroring, such as through SPAN or RSPAN, uses unicast to duplicate network traffic from a source port or ports onto a destination port.  This technique is useful for troubleshooting, in case you can't get a packet capture running on either end of a network flow, or for monitoring (as was our intended use case). IANANG (I Am Not a Networking Guy), but my understanding is that the problem is due to the nature of a SPAN port and how those packets look to the Virtual Connect.  When Port Mirroring is configured, all traffic is duplicated and sent out to the Virtual Connect.  These packets are not changed in this process, keeping their original source and destination MAC addresses; the SPAN port is forwarding these packets t...

I've been working on an environment audit for one of my customers (expect to see some of those scripts popping up in the not-too-distant future).  In addition to auditing ESXi host configurations, I've been looking at their HP C7000 Chassis configurations and comparing them against enterprise standards.  Since there are a lot of chassis in this environment, I've been leveraging scripts to collect data via plink. It's not always easy to parse data from an SSH session into PowerShell objects, but HP gave us a great tool in their CLI (way better than adjusting column size, which is what I was looking for when I came across this).  It's already  well documented , but it saved me so much time that I figured that it was worth mentioning anyway... the HP CLI commands support this great option: -output=script2.  There's actually a couple of "script#" options, but I'm particularly fond of #2.  So, what's it do?  Well, it turns this style of human frie...