UCS blade and new VLANs. I thought I have never have to do this but it came up.
Dell Server, importing new disks into a RAID volume.
I was caught flat-footed when trying to import a used disk into a mirror set. One of the disks in the mirror set was removed for disaster recovery trials.
Notable Security Vulnerabilities for 2017
2017 has been an exciting time for discovering security vulnerabilities. There are some that hold your companies assets to ransom. Others can be career ending. So I thought to compile a list to keep track. Remember there is still 2…
Racking Cisco UCS C220 server
Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) C220 server is a line of proprietary servers to run various applications like WLC, ACS, ISE, Prime etc. These applications are Linux based but it can also be a VMware hypervisor. The customizations of the…
Heartbleed bug in OpenSSL
Heartbleed bug or exploit in SSL and you.
RISC microprocessors
CPU photo from Wood be Nice ARM microprocessors have been making the headlines. I thought I dig up my undergraduate paper on Reduced Instruction Set Computing (RISC) microprocessors. This was written in 1995 with the resources of a small library.…
SMS 2003 extensions
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.