Archive for August, 2007
HP MSA Front Panel Indicators
The HP MSA is a fairly popular storage device with a good feature set for small to medium sized organizations. It makes use of the familiar HP Array Configuration Utility for configuration but its front panel leaves something to be desired. I was able to obtain a document from HP support the details exactly what all of those blinking indicators really mean.
No commentsVMware ESX 3 Upgrade
I used this to upgrade an ESX host from 3.0.1 to 3.0.2. It is likely that the same procedure can be used with future releases. Use caution when upgrading production servers as this procedure DOES take the host offline.
No commentsNew Features in ESX 3.1 and VirtualCenter 2.1
There are some new features on the horizon for the VMware Virtual Infrastructure in the latest releases of ESX 3.1 and VirtualCenter 2.1. Although we haven’t officially seen anything on these releases the buzz is that we can expect to see some if not all of the following.
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