This can be a life saver SMS2003. Sometimes you want to trigger one remote client to do an inventory. There isn’t an simple way to do this. After some noodling, I got this. Advanced Client Actions. It will do the…
Facebook datacenter
If you are a Facebook user and a Infra geek at the same time, you will find these two links very interesting. A photo spread of Facebook datacenter. Some of nodes computers (memcached servers) each has 72GB for RAM. Link …
A rare problem (hopefully).
Punctured RAID Stripe.
Installing Windows 2008 using HP SmartStart 8.1
Installing servers with vendor installation CD is to make your life easier as it comes with all the necessary drivers for their hardware.
Patching ISA 2004
Ever tried patching an ISA server? Not as easy as other application servers. Recently I had an interesting experience on patching an ISA 2004 server. So I am documenting this down for everyone and myself.
Cloning the HP way part deux
Using HP’s Server Migration Pack to do migration requires three servers. The source, destination and the application server. If there is a firewall in between any of these servers, you will need to open some ports. Windows Firewall is automatically…
Meet Shorty
Shorty, the smaller brother of HP c7000 Blade enclosure is now available. The new c3000 is targetted towards SMB. It is a very compact enclosure, with only eight half-height slots compared to the C7000 16 slots. To achieve this size,…
VMware ESX 3.02
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…
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.