letter to veeam, more documentation please.
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EqualLogic switch choices
Posted on April 28, 2010 by mellerbeck
http://jpowell.blogs.com/jason_powell_church_it/2010/03/what-makes-a-good-iscsi-switch-part-2.html
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Note to self, I’m always trying to use Null in VB.net I should be using Is Nothing
Posted on April 26, 2010 by mellerbeck
You live, you learn http://articles.techrepublic.com.com/5100-10878_11-5764862.html The null keyword is a literal that represents a null reference with the C# .NET environment. You may use the null keyword to check or assign the value of an object. For example, the following C# code determines if a string value is null: string sTest = “Test”; if (sTest [...]
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ToDo: I should make some paneer
Posted on April 25, 2010 by mellerbeck
http://nomoremicrowaves.wordpress.com/2010/04/23/wtf-is-paneer-and-how-do-i-make-it/
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configure riverbed using serial port
Posted on April 20, 2010 by mellerbeck
I can’t believe this isn’t out there, anyways 4. Connecting to the Steelhead Appliance Plug the serial cable into the Console port and a terminal. Make sure the Console port settings are: 9600, 8 data bits, no parity, 1 stop bit, no flow control. Start your terminal emulation program (for example, HyperTerminal or Tera Term [...]
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What do you get when you cross a Whale and an Eagle, a Wheagle of course
Posted on April 16, 2010 by mellerbeck
Check it out here, http://www.threadless.com/submission/267096/Wheagle And give it a vote! Aren’t you glad whales can’t fly….
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My fun with NMI ESX ibm xseries 346
Posted on April 15, 2010 by mellerbeck
So I went to install a quick test ESX server on an IBM xseries 346. Of course right during the install it reboots… ok what just happened. The second time I catch it an unexpected NMI 4000: something Well a quick google search brings me here http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1015661 Easy enough right update the BIOS. Well followed [...]
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Ouch, hope this never happens to me!
Posted on April 8, 2010 by mellerbeck
http://www.tuxyturvy.com/blog/index.php?/archives/69-Equallogic-Eats-Our-Data.html Lessons learned Have good backups! (This is true for anything) Stick with RAID50 Update firmware (often but not too often, I aim to not be bleeding edge, but current) Replace drives quickly Support might not be useful, need to escalate to higher level quickly in an emergency somehow.
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EqualLogic Veeam followup
Posted on April 7, 2010 by mellerbeck
So far Veeam has been treating me well. When backing up multiple VM’s at the same time it really does peg out the processor. I’m glad I choose to install into physical instead of virtual. I of course had an iSCSI attached volume that veeam can’t ‘see’ so I had to remedy that by moving [...]
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Blocked by block size
Posted on April 7, 2010 by mellerbeck
So even though I read this post by Duncan http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2009/11/10/block-sizes-think-before-you-decide/ It was too late for me. I had already created a VMFS with too small of a block size. It boils down to what is your workingDir. In my case the workingDir was on a 1MB Block size volume. I ran into this almost exact [...]
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