Installing servers with vendor installation CD is to make your life easier as it comes with all the necessary drivers for their hardware.
Playing with Netbackup II
Some important Netbackup terminology that you should know but are buried deep in the PDF docs. You need to settle on the method of backup before committing to buy the licenses.
Playing with Netbackup I
I was passed a job to get Netbackup 6.5 to do a SAN-based backup. There are three ways to perform a backup of server/s data from a dedicated server, LAN, backup LAN and lastly SAN.
How to bypass security for your UIQ3
How to install unsigned applications for your UIQ3 device. I have tried this successfully on my P1i
Installing an additional node to a SQL 2005 cluster
An SQL 2005 cluster can have up to up to 8 nodes for the Enterprise or Standard edition 2 nodes. Sometimes you only have the budget to do so much and the passive node gets postponed.
ESXi 3.5 update 2 test drive
I was looking through the VMware website and stumbled on the free version of ESX (since 28 Jul 08). So I thought I do a test drive together with some of the very old VM Server images.
Taking a long time view Veritas job history
If the Symantec Backup Exec job history takes a long to load and when it does, it is blanked. This usually means the database is too large and needs to be compacted. Use the commands at your own risk.
Exchange 2007 on a VM
I need some face time with Exchange 2007. My previous two attempts to run it off the company’s data centre servers almost always got hijacked.
Next project
The next project could be an Exchange 2007 on a Compellent. This is going to be fun!!!
Web-enabled management for Linux
If you need to manage a Linux server and you hate the CLI interface, check out Webmin. It really rocks for Windows savvy users. You can access Linux and all its guts without figuring out how Gnome works.