Your users want to have VPN access to access stuff on the road. The VPN tunnel stops at the appliance. You loathe creating an access control list just for that box. Not to mention internal audit is going to give…
Forklift upgrade
What happens if you need to upgrade the creaking old server hardware that Exchange is sitting on? Especially if you want to keep the same name to prevent users from going bonkers and yourself from updating all the docs. Read…
VMware Converter 3.0
A customer has a bunch of really old Compaq servers running, you guess it a mission-critical application that nobody knows how to reinstall. So I convinced them to virtualize the machines as a business continuity plan. That way hardware failure…
Tools for converting machines to VMware
What happens when your VMs refuse to start.
On powering up the virtual servers, they keep hanging. Strangely they use to be working just a few minutes ago? Check the properties of each of the virtual servers. Uncheck all devices that are connected at power-up. If all else…
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.
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.