Installed my first ESX server on an HP DL380 G5, quite an interesting experience. Overall the process is very smooth. The server is a standard edition, so I just accepted all the suggested defaults. My datastore is going to be…
Bourne Ultimatum
The last of the trilogy for the Bourne series. It shows Jason Bourne going back to his roots. As usual not much special effects just a simple script of a man trying to find out where it all began. A…
Cloning servers the HP way
HP offers this nifty little software to help you to migrate your installation from the old or another platform to Proliant servers. With a management server, it will reboot the source server and copy the partitions directly to the destination…
Have you heard of the command SC?
Most of us are familiar with the famous NET command since the Windows NT days. The NET command to handle network services is part of the NTLM and LAN Manager coming from the days of MS-DOS.
HP BladeSystem c-Class
Just completed a week of blade system training by HP. They take blade technology to a whole new level. The keyword here is Integration. Everything is integrated here except the kitchen sink. And then maybe next time.
If you need to do anything important write it down.
“Hold on I really got to write this down”, from a scene in Memento. Several successful people, including a PSLE top scorer, attribute their success to writing down their goals. Now courtesy of Mr Wang, there is a do it…
Windows 2000 and ML310 G4
The mission if you choose to accept is to install Windows 2000 on an HP ML310 G4. Sound simple, except that HP does not support this configuration. To make things even more interesting, onboard SATA RAID!
Disaster Recovery and backup software
Prepping two servers to demonstrate disaster recovery using Veritas Intelligent Disaster Recovery. Based on track record, not very optimistic but never say die! Read more for update. 22 Jun 07 The basic steps of preparing for a disaster include: a.…
PCI-e and PCI-X
PCI-E or PCI-Express is the smallish version whereas PCI-X is the larger and older cousin. Most definitely not physically compatible. Recently I was asked to install a tape drive and its SCSI card into a server. The server specs list…