Sending that pesky F11 to ESXi through a Mac

OK, the alternative method I've just discovered is to go to the keyboard settings under System Preferences and check the box that says:

Use all F1, F2, etc. keys as standard function keys.

This worked today.  We'll see what happens tomorrow.

Sending F11 to ESXi through UCS KVM on Mac

I just need a place to put this so I remember.  I switched to using a Macbook Pro - which I love.  But there are some things that just require learning again...

Sending F11 to an ESXi host through a KVM requires:

Fn+Cmd+F11

Now I may remember...

Data Domain CLI commands

In the process of replicating data from a DD640 to DD2500 and we're hitting capacity issues.  The Data Domain locks data and won't allow cleaning to have access when it is replicating.

So...

I cancelled replication and manually started cleaning.  Last night there was no decrease in data size once cleaning finished.  I'm running it again today manually.  The commands of the day are:

#filesys clean stat

which displays the current condition of the cleaning, such as:

DD640# filesys clean status
Cleaning started at 2015/02/20 09:00:50: phase 1 of 10 (pre-enumeration)
  2.5% complete,  1130 GiB free; time: phase  0:57:55, total  0:57:57

Which is nice, but when you're as retentive as me, you want real-time info on the condition.  That's when we use:

filesys clean watch

That will present real-time, updating status of the cleaning job, such as:

DD640# filesys clean watch
Beginning 'filesys clean' monitoring.  Use Control-C to stop monitoring.

Cleaning: phase 1 of 10 (pre-enumeration)
    3.4% complete,  1130 GiB free; time: phase  1:24:26, total  1:24:28

I also allocated more resources to the cleaning in hope that it gets finished sooner than later.  I'm not running any backup during the day to speak of, so I can afford to let those jobs take a back seat to the emergency maintenance.

More as it happens...