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Working with PowerShell & Multiple Azure Contexts

When working with multiple Azure subscriptions, the PowerShell Az.* modules allow for easy context switching. This means that you can run commands agains multiple subscriptions, or you can run commands against subscriptions without changing your default context. An Azure Context object contains information about the Account that was used to sign into Azure, the active (for that context) Azure Subscription, and an auth token cache is not actually empty, it just can't read from here for security reasons, though you can read it with the Get-AzAccessToken command. Here's what is in an Azure Context object: PS> Get-AzContext | fl * Name : TK-PRD (yyyyyyyy-yyyy-yyyy-yyyy-yyyyyyyyyyyy) - tim@timkennedy.net Account : tim@timkennedy.net Environment : AzureCloud Subscription : yyyyyyyy-yyyy-yyyy-yyyy-yyyyyyyyyyyy Tenant : zzzzzzzz-zzzz-zzzz-zzzz-zzzzzzzzzzzz TokenCache : VersionProfile : ExtendedProperties : {} If y...
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diskread: reading beyond end of ramdisk (& how I recovered)

We had to do a maintenance to replace a NEM module in a Sun Blade 8000 Modular System. Two of my team mates went on down to the datacenter on other business and graciously offered to SWAP the NEM for me. The pulled the old one out, stuck the new one in. That's as simple as it should have been. Should have been. I wish. Instead, the chassis started to freak out, cycling it's power over and over, and somehow was taking the CMM with it. In between one set of cycles, I was able to connect to the CMM via console and paste in a bunch of commands to shut down chassis power. I let it sit for a moment, then began to power up the system. First the chassis, then the individual blades. One blade came up, no problem. The next two, though, were very much less than happy, spitting out errors like: diskread: reading beyond end of ramdisk start = 0x2000, size = 0x2000 failed to read superblock diskread: reading beyond end of ramdisk start = 0x2000, size = 0x2000 failed to read superblock ...
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