CarlC Computer Tips, Tricks, and Support
Old saying… That person needs a high five… in the face… with a chair! There are days AT&T does a great job… of making me want to ripe out my hair… AT&T has a <word of person who does not know his/her father> of a modem on their hands, it’s the Pace PLC […]
I’m a big Fedora Core fan… I use it as my main PC at home [everything else is a VM on VMware somewhere]. After the upgrade from FC 24 to FC25, I could not VNC into my Linux box. I got a Grey or Blank screen. I found the issue after much research. I […]
[UPDATE: As of March 2019, this also works for ATT / NiTel setups] I had to deal with a most interesting network issue with Comcast Business Fiber. Comcast Business Fiber and Metro Ethernet both use an interesting way to get the static IPs to the customer. In my example, the LAN will be 10.1.1.x/24, Comcast […]
Over the last few weeks, I needed to upgrade our VMware vSphere 4.1 cluster which had ESX 4.1 servers to vSphere 5.1. Trouble was, there really was not a “here’s the order to do this in” without trying to read thorough many Terrabytes of VMware documentation. So, here’s what I did and it worked for […]
Today I converted my VMware ESX 4.1 machine to VMware ESXi 5.1 update 1. This is the system that is running my Virtual Alpha Server using Migration Specialties’s Avanti software. The good news is, it worked almost perfectly. When you reload your VM, make sure to remove and re-add the USB key. I did […]
While working on Sonicwall routers, I found some interesting things. After setting up monitoring of the Sonicwall routers via Cacti, I was able to turn on monitoring of “errors”. As I found errors on the ports, almost every error was due to the port on either the Sonicwall or the switch being set incorrectly. […]
I’ve had to work on a couple of HP Proliant DL380 G3 servers. As far as hardware goes, the HP Proliant is usually fairly bullet proof. In a few of the HP Proliant DL380 G3, under iLO, we would see the following: 473 12/28/2012 19:10:00 Server power removed. 474 12/28/2012 19:10:00 Server power restored. 475 […]
With everyone in the world converting from “Physical” server to virtual, and in our attempts to use less electricity, less cooling, and just being “Greener”, I decided to look at Migration Specialties Avanti. You can find Migration Specialties at www.migrationspecialties.com . We currently have different AXP servers, but for my test, I will convert a Dec […]
Ran into a most interesting problem. Had a rash of HP DL360 G4p servers with the embedded 6i SCSI host adapter that would not recognize any hard drive plugged in. It first started with the warning when you rebooted that the SCSI adapter warning was having “cabling problems”. While I was trying to figure […]
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 […]