Friday, May 13, 2016

Simple powershell script to report Internet unavailability

A simple script that check the state of internet connectivity and output time and date of unavailability to screen.


$ping = new-object System.Net.Networkinformation.Ping

While($true)
{
   $result = $ping.send("8.8.8.8")
   sleep 10
   $result1 = $ping.send("8.8.4.4")
   sleep 10

   if(($result.status -ne "Success") -and ($result1.status -ne "Success"))
   {
      $date = date
      $message = "Internet unavailable: " + $date
      echo $message
    }
    sleep 60
}

Friday, December 13, 2013

one-to-one mapping between VMware Tools for # ESX/ESXi version-number codes

9344        esx/5.5         9.4.0
9221        esx/5.1p03      9.0.5
9221        esx/5.1p02      9.0.5
9221        esx/5.1ep03     9.0.5
9221        esx/5.1u1       9.0.5
9217        esx/5.1ep02     9.0.1
9217        esx/5.1p01      9.0.1
9216        esx/5.1         9.0.0
8395        esx/5.0u3       8.6.11
8395        esx/5.0p06      8.6.11
8395        esx/5.0ep05     8.6.11
8395        esx/5.0p05      8.6.11
8394        esx/5.0u2       8.6.10
8389        esx/5.0p04      8.6.5
8389        esx/5.0p03      8.6.5
8389        esx/5.0u1       8.6.5
8384        esx/5.0p02      8.6.0
8384        esx/5.0         8.6.0
8307        esx/4.1p10      8.3.19
8307        esx/4.1p09      8.3.19
8307        esx/4.1p08      8.3.19
8306        esx/4.1p07      8.3.18
8305        esx/4.1p06      8.3.17
8305        esx/4.1u3       8.3.17
8300        esx/4.1p05      8.3.12
8300        esx/4.1p04      8.3.12
8300        esx/4.1u2       8.3.12
8295        esx/4.1p03      8.3.7
8295        esx/4.1u1       8.3.7
8290        esx/4.1         8.3.2
8199        esx/4.0p14      8.0.7
8198        esx/4.0p13      8.0.6
8197        esx/4.0ep09     8.0.5
8196        esx/4.0p12      8.0.4
8196        esx/4.0p11      8.0.4
8196        esx/4.0u4       8.0.4
8196        esx/4.0p10      8.0.4
8196        esx/4.0u3       8.0.4
8195        esx/4.0u2       8.0.3
8194        esx/4.0u1       8.0.2
8192        esx/4.0         8.0.0
7304        esx/3.5p27      7.4.8
7304        esx/3.5p25      7.4.8
7304        esx/3.5p24      7.4.8
7304        esx/3.5u5       7.4.8
7303        esx/3.5u4       7.4.7
7302        esx/3.5u3       7.4.6
7302        esx/3.5u2       7.4.6

Thursday, February 23, 2012

New prices for cable customers in Quebec



Quebec Residential Cable Internet
ProductSpeeds Up To
(Down/Up)
Bandwidth
(/Month)
Price
(/month)
Purchase
TekSavvy Basic Cable 33Mb/800kb300GB$24.95Order Now
TekSavvy Cable 3 Unlimited3Mb/800kbUnlimited$34.95Order Now
TekSavvy Express Cable 88Mb/1Mb300GB$39.95Order Now
TekSavvy Express Cable 8 Unlimited8Mb/1MbUnlimited$47.95Order Now
TekSavvy Extreme Cable 1515Mb/1Mb300GB$50.95Order Now
TekSavvy Extreme Cable 15 Unlimited15Mb/1MbUnlimited$57.95Order Now
TekSavvy Ultimate Cable 3030Mb/2Mb300GB$59.95Order Now
TekSavvy Ultimate Cable 30 Unlimited30Mb/2MbUnlimited$69.95Order Now

Electronicbox
SpeedCable Intermédiaire
SpeedCable Intermédiaire

Aussi bas que :

26.95$
  • Accès rapide et abordable
  • Vitesse constante
  • 25 GB26.95$
Order
Contact
SpeedCable Haute Vitesse
SpeedCable Haute Vitesse

À partir de :

31.95$
  • Vitesse constante
  • Idéal pour la vidéo
  • Bande passante illimité disponible
  • 75 GB31.95$
  • 250 GB36.95$
  • Illimité56.95$
Order
Contact
SpeedCable Extreme 15
SpeedCable Extreme 15

À partir de :

39.95$
  • Tout nouveau, très très vite
  • Plus de vitesse et de capacité
  • Plusieurs utilisateurs à la fois
  • 125 GB39.95$
  • 250 GB44.95$
Order
Contact
SpeedCable Extreme 30
SpeedCable Extreme 15

Aussi bas que :

49.95$
  • Ultra Rapide
  • Plus de vitesse et de capacité
  • Plusieurs utilisateurs à la fois
  • 250 GB49.95$
Order
Contact
SpeedCable Extreme 60
SpeedCable Extreme 15

Aussi bas que :

54.95$
  • Ultra Rapide
  • Plus de vitesse et de capacité
  • Plusieurs utilisateurs à la fois
  • 250 GB54.95$
Order
Contact


















Sunday, March 20, 2011

Test: Zfs «l2arc» with Intel SSD

Simple test to validate that my new SSD was not a waste of money. The test was made from a Windows xp virtual machine with iometer to generate I/O to a CIFS share on my file server “Solaris 11 Express”.











test

Test details

Test file size

L2arc SSD «in»

Average response time ms

iops

Explanation

1

Random 4k read

3GB

No

0.4

9517

3Gb fit in ram «arc»

2

Random 4k read

30GB

No

33.8

118

No ssd cache and 30GB is to big to fit in arc.. so I hit arc and the disk

3

Random 4k read

30GB

Yes

9.7

411

«l2arc» is configure and can contain 30GB but have to «warm»

4

Random 4k read

30GB

Yes

2.7

1482

Same as 3 but l2arc is warm

5

Random 4k read (more workers)

30GB

Yes

2.5

1625

Same as 4 but with more iometer workers



Test1


Test2


Test3


Test4


zpool iostat -v data


Test5





Another interesting post on the subject: http://blogs.sun.com/brendan/entry/test