Month: September 2018

Brocade – Model Number and Firmware

You may use the following command line interface (CLI) commands on a Brocade fibre channel (FC) switch to view the model number and firmware version of the switch.

switchshow
firmwareshow

In particular the switchType: field of the switchshow command will provide you with the model number of the switch.


VMware PowerCLI – View Snapshots

You may use the following VMware PowerCLI cmdlets to view all of the snapshots managed by vCenter Server or more specifically a cluster. These are sample commands and further information and documentation may be found here.

Get-VM | Get-Snapshot | Format-List
Get-VM | Get-Snapshot | Format-List VM, Name, SizeGB, Created, Description
Get-VM -Location “CLUSTER01” | Get-Snapshot | Format-List
Get-VM -Location “CLUSTER01”| Get-Snapshot | Format-List VM, Name, SizeGB, Created, Description