We’ve had some issues with electricity going down on specific rack closets. We have a single 16A fuse for each closet. On some, the ones containing older Sun servers, about 12 servers were able to go into a rack closet, so we’ve had no issues with power consumptions. However, on a rack closet holding many…
I’m not going to disclose now the method to do so, but I want to show off, so here’s a (real) screen-shot taken from my Cisco Fabric Manager. I have three MDS 9212, two Brocade SilkWorm 2800 and one Brocade SilkWorm 2400. All later three are old and slow, which is why I’ve used the…
For those of you not familiar with Hebrew, this entry won’t say much. For those of you who are familiar with it, it might say more. HP Laptops are bundled with a pack of CDs, meant for easy reinstallation/recovery on their laptops. These CDs can be used as the quickest method to recover the…
Pretend you have a medium sized environment, all Windows, and you want to accomplish one small task. For example, get the list of installed software on all computers. Great. You can sit down for a day, or two, write some huge and complicated software which will open each and every registry on your network, and…
Lets assume you have a method of point-in-time copy of Microsoft Exchange DB and logs, while the system is running, to an alternate server. Let’s assume, if we’re at that, that this point-in-time is consistent, and that you can mount this store (depending on using the similar directory structure, etc.), on an alternate server, and…
And had the chance to be in one of the largest server farms I’ve ever been to. Could not take pictures, though. We were connected to a proxied and limited network, inside the organization, with a limited set of allowed web sites. It was terrible. Then I’ve figured that if I purchase wireless network connection…
