CarlC Computer Tips, Tricks, and Support
Had a chance to work on the latest HP MSA2000 G3 controllers. These controllers are really fast and make working on almost any iSCSI/Fiber SAN a snap. While trying to setup replication using the wizard, I ran into the following error after enter the remote SAN’s information: “There are no vdisks in the […]
Had an interesting problem the other day. A customer wanted a dozen or so laptops, all with the exact same setups. They had a legal copy of Windows 7 Enterprise, and we were going to erase the old laptop software at the drive level and replace it with a the first laptops Windows 7 Enterprise […]
Well, over the weekend, I got a chance to convert from using XP Professional for my “Windows” needs to Windows 7. When I created the Windows 7 system Virtual Machine [VM] on ESX 4.1 with update 1, I used the defaulted “LSI Logic SAS”. This has been the “Controller of choice” for many a Windows […]
I just like how some software, like logwatch, does a great job at monitoring and sending you daily log files. You can really stay on top of things with a wonderful free opensource product like this. Unfortunately, logwatch does not really know about ESX, and the differences between a regular Linux server and the […]
A friend sent me an interesting article, you can view it here: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/storage/why-raid-5-stops-working-in-2009/162 While the author talks about these large drives, he brings up the good point that the larger the drive, the more likely it is to fail. I run into these questions by customers who want to use the cheapest server […]
During a conversion using VMware vCenter Converter Standalone Client, we ran in to a most interesting problem. We were converting from a static IP address to a DHCP address, and after converting, the XP box would not pick up a DHCP address. What we found was, when you tell VMware to convert, XP goes from […]