I’m posting this here more so I don’t forget it (Besides, every time I learn something new, it pushes some old stuff out of my brain. Remember when I took that home winemaking course, and I forgot how to drive?), but I think some of you will also find it useful if you don’t know [...]
I must admit, configuring stuff on HP boxes via their Integrated Lights Out (iLO) is something you don’t have to do often… generally you do it when you set a new box up and that’s it. But with the amount of blades coming into the lab these days, I figured it was about time I [...]
As I mentioned in the video that accompanied my Ghetto vCenter 4.0 Unattended Installer post, the vCenter 4.0 command line installer has a minor bug, in that if you don’t have Named Pipes enabled on your remote SQL Server, a warning message will pop up and halt the installation until you hit OK. You don’t [...]
As you’ve probably read on a few other blogs more popular than this one (only just though ), I have penned a chapter in an upcoming book, vSphere 4.0 Quick Start Guide. It was a collaborative effort amongst 6 of us, EMC gun Bernie Baker, Vizioncore Technical Architect Thomas Bryant III, Licensed to vKill Duncan [...]
I don’t know what is going on at HP these days, I really don’t. Either the VMware / HP relationship is souring a bit, or HP have appointed an imbecile in charge of their side of the deal. For reasons unknown to man, HP never followed the path of Dell and IBM by integrating their [...]
In the words of Jack Nicholson’s Joker (well… almost), it’s time to clean out the crap from the Cloud and everything the IT media has associated with it over the past year or so, and get down to business. I’m going to make a bold statement here, and don’t mean any disrespect to anyone in [...]
