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,…
Project Management
Once upon a time, an architect friend of mine commented what is so special IT project management. You have the lead time and allotted time for the task. Plan and execute. Unlike construction project management, we don’t have to contend…
Backing up VMware ESX 3.02 using Symantec 11d
This looks simple from the start. Install a Symantec Backup Exec 11d media server, a Remote Agent for Linux and Unix Servers (RALUS) inside the ESX server. Run a backup job and it is done! And then some.
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…
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…