CarlC Computer Tips, Tricks, and Support
I was installing VMware Player 5.0.2 onto my Linux laptop that runs Fedora Core 18. The installation works perfectly, and the first time you click on VMplayer, it starts to install. I would get a error message “C header files matching your running kernel were not found. Refer to your distribution’s documentation for installation instructions”. […]
Let me start by saying that Equipe Rapide Sports Car Club has been using Race America T-Link timing system for quite a few years now. Before that, ERSCC had the older, but very reliable, JAC Circuits timer but really hated having to run wires to and from the start and finish lights. And since we […]
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. […]
Had a customer with Citrix XenServer 6 and a few Virtual Machines [VMs] running. The VMs were windows based and we wanted to move them to VMware Workstation 9. I found the easiest way to do this was: 1) Setup an intermediate Windows based share to put the “converted” VM onto. This can be […]
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 […]
I’ve been busy converting from our old set on OpenVMS of OSU webserver, PHP 3 and MySQL V4. The upgrade consisted of Apache, CWCS from HP, PHP 5 and MySQL V5. While working on MySQL V5, there was no mysql_shutdown.com file to properly say “shutdown mysql properly”. I was stopping MySQL using “stop/id=xxxx”. This […]
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 […]