Posts Tagged ‘dell’

VMWare users check this out

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I was reading through my rss feeds this weekend and came across a post entitled ‘The best thing I’ve found all year….’ by one of the top vm bloggers. So I had to check it out. He was posting about a Dell tool that allows you to extend the file system [...]

Free utility: MC-WOL

Very nice, this tool will be a great addition for our Altiris admin. Now we just have to make sure WOL is enabled in the bios of our Dell machines.
This small command line utility makes possible to switch on a computer from a second one by sending a "Magic Packet". Both of computers can [...]

Calculating VMware HA Failover Capacity

Our new ESX cluster has 3 Dell 2950 Servers with 12,16, and 32 GB of ram. From this article I need to look into making them all 32GB.
Most readers probably know that VMware High Availability (or VMware HA) is the feature of VMware Infrastructure 3 that allows for virtual machines (VMs) to be rebooted [...]

WUBI help

I installed WUBI on my Dell Latitude D820. But I can’t get the wireless card to work. It looks like the card is installed, but I’m using WPA for wireless at home and WPA is not a option.
I just downloaded WUBI so its the latest version.
That’s for the help in advance
jb

Dell purchases Equalogic

Wow, I’m really surprised about this. Concerning the Dell/EMC partnership, equalogic competes with EMC in the small and midsize markets.
Here’s links to more details about the deal:
http://esgblogs.typepad.com/steves_it_rants/2007/11/dell-just-bough.html
http://esgblogs.typepad.com/stor_wars/2007/11/dells-logic—t.html
http://storagemojo.com/2007/11/05/dell-wins-equallogic-emc-loses/

First Snow

Today we got the first snow of the year. I didn’t even think about all the schools that where closed today when I took my daughter to daycare, but they where closed because of the weather. So I got to stay home with her today and work from home as much as she let me [...]

The Best Time To Buy Everything

 Here’s my tip, buy a car at the end of a quarter not just the end of a month. This allows loads true for Dell computers. Buy at the end of the quarter.
Here are two different viewpoints on ‘The best time to buy everything’, one from SmartMoney and the other from CNN Money. Some excerpts [...]

Stupid back plane

I’m finally leaving work today. I got called at 7:30 because users couldn’t connect to our ERP system. I remoted in and the server looked fine. So I called the database guy. He made a change and the users could connect.
At about 1PM I get a call from the database guy that he was in [...]

Busy week, not many posts

Let’s see Monday started by having the drive our exchange logs on fill up. Yeah….who would have thought we could have 3GB of changes to the database over a weekend…..exeutil is your friend…
The rest of the week, we’ve had an onsite vmware workshop. We installed 3 Dell blades with ESX onto our SAN and we [...]

What a week.

Wednesday morning 5am, I get a call that nothing it working at work. On my drive in I call our desktop support person to see what he can access….Nothing. The server room is dark. Not good.
We had storms Tuesday night, but we have a huge UPS and a generator…..yah…
I get into work, into the server [...]

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