Two years, one rack closet
It has been about two years since I have visited a specific rack closet, and took pictures. Several days ago I have visited the same rack closet, and took some new pictures. You can tell time went by 😉

It has been about two years since I have visited a specific rack closet, and took pictures. Several days ago I have visited the same rack closet, and took some new pictures. You can tell time went by 😉
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I’ve “fixed” such a computer a with tendency to freeze today. It happened that about every two hours, the computer froze. I let it roam for a while, and noted that the Chipset’s North-Bridge was getting terribly hot. The computer chassis was left open because of driver incompatibility regarding the on-board network interface, so a…
While searching the web for how to perform PCI-Passthrough on XenServers, we mostly get info about previous versions. Since I have just completed setting up PCI-Passthrough on XenServer version 6. 5 (with recent update 8, just to give you some notion of the exact time frame), I am sharing it here. Hardware: Cisco UCS blades,…
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