Ran into a most interesting problem. Had a rash of HP DL360 G4p servers with the embedded 6i SCSI host adapter that would not recognize any hard drive plugged in. It first started with the warning when you rebooted that ...
Had a chance to work on the latest HP MSA2000 G3 controllers. These controllers are really fast and make working on almost any iSCSI/Fiber SAN a snap.
While trying to setup replication using the wizard, I ran into the following error ...
Had an interesting problem the other day. A customer wanted a dozen or so laptops, all with the exact same setups. They had a legal copy of Windows 7 Enterprise, and we were going to erase the old laptop software ...
Well, over the weekend, I got a chance to convert from using XP Professional for my “Windows” needs to Windows 7. When I created the Windows 7 system Virtual Machine [VM] on ESX 4.1 with update 1, I used the ...
I just like how some software, like logwatch, does a great job at monitoring and sending you daily log files. You can really stay on top of things with a wonderful free opensource product like this.
Unfortunately, logwatch does not really ...
A friend sent me an interesting article, you can view it here:
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/storage/why-raid-5-stops-working-in-2009/162
While the author talks about these large drives, he brings up the good point that the larger the drive, the more likely it is to fail. I run into ...
During a conversion using VMware vCenter Converter Standalone Client, we ran in to a most interesting problem. We were converting from a static IP address to a DHCP address, and after converting, the XP box would not pick up a ...