Two New Tutorials available for Microsoft and Cisco
Two new Tutorials are now available for Microsoft and Cisco. The Microsoft tutorial covers the best way to find the 5 FSMO roles using ntdsutil and netdom. The Cisco tutorial involves a Cisco Nexus...
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Quick March April May Activity Update
Hi, I thought I would give everyone an update as you would not of seen much activity from me since March.First up, in March, a car exploded in our apartment block garage, causing the whole building to...
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E3 Expo 2013 Los Angeles Convention Center
Like I mentioned in my post yesterday, I was very fortunate to get a pass to attend this years E3 Video Games Expo at the Los Angeles Convention Center. Every single publisher and studio of video games...
View ArticleNetapp Clustered Mode Tutorials Comming Soon
Hi everyone, just a quick post to let you all know that i’m currently working on and getting trained up on Netapp Clustered mode 8.2, I will be creating some tutorials and reference pocket guides for...
View ArticleNetapp Clustered Mode Tutorials are now available
Three Netapp Clustered Mode Tutorials are now available: Upgrading from 7-mode to Clustered Mode, Cluster Interconnect CN1610 Switch Configuration and Netapp Cluster Mode CLI Pocket GuideNetapp Data...
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BgInfo and Group Policy
I have previously used BgInfo and find it such a great tool for displaying some key information on the desktop of servers such as hostname, username, ip address, cpu, free space, last boot time, etc...
View ArticlevSphere 5.1 Web Interface HTTP 404
I’ve come across this issue a few times now and I mention this in my video on vCenter 5.1 Upgrade Part 2 – vSphere Web Client and Inventory Service Installation where you might receive a 404 error on...
View ArticleAlcatel OmniSwitch Reference Guide
I’ve just completed the first revision of the Alcatel CLI Pocket Guide which can be used as a How To or Reference Guide when configuring Alcatel OmniSwitch devices. Please comment if you would like me...
View ArticleWindows Multiple IP Addresses and Default Gateway
I wanted to write this post in regards to anyone currently using or admins that are about to use Microsoft Windows Servers or workstations with multiple ip addresses and how Windows will determine your...
View ArticleSnapmirror from Netapp 7-Mode to Netapp C-Mode
In this new tutorial I have created the steps that you will need to create a snapmirror relationship between your Netapp 7-Mode SAN and Netapp C-Mode SAN. This will help you migrate your volumes from...
View ArticleNew StorageCraft ShadowProtect Backup and Restore Tutorials
Three new tutorials are now available which will guide through how to backup and restore using StorageCraft ShadowProtect. If you don’t know about this software, it’s an excellent tool to backup your...
View ArticleNetapp C-Mode Updating LS-Mirror on Root to Replicate Changes
This is just a quick post to let you know about a small issue that I ran into with ls-mirrors on the root volume of a vserver.If you plan to make any changes on the vserver such as add or adjust nfs...
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VMware vSphere Datastore UUID Change
When a Virtual Machine is first created with 1 hard disk, all the config files and hard disk vmdk is situated on the one datastore. Within the vmx file for this virtual machine the first hard disk vmdk...
View ArticleBecause VIX is not installed on this machine
I’ve come across this error message a few times now when running VMware PowerCLI scripts, especially the command wait-tools. The exact error that I receive is:The requested operation could not be...
View ArticleHappy New Year for 2014
Hi everyone just wanted to write this quick post wishing everyone a happy new year for 2014 and I hope everyone had a great time off over Christmas.Now that we are hard back at work we’ll be bringing...
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VMware Upgrade 5.5 with vSphere Distributed Switch
VMware Upgrade 5.5 of vSphere Distributed SwitchIf you have upgraded your vSphere environment to vSphere 5.5 and you currently use the vSphere Distributed Switch, you will find that after the upgrade...
View ArticleNetapp Clustered Ontap Adding Disks
Clustered Ontap Adding DisksWhen adding disks into an existing aggregate you expand the current Raid Group and also potentially create new Raid Groups. As the Data is already spread across existing...
View ArticleNew Sysadmin Tutorials Monthly Newsletter
This week brings the addition of a new feature to the website, Monthly Newsletters.Each month you will have a professionally drafted Newsletter sent to you highlighting all the recent posts, pages,...
View ArticleNew Tutorial Netapp Disk Shelf Cabling Examples
I’ve just completed a new Tutorial on how to cable disk shelves to a Netapp system using examples of FAS2040, FAS3240 controllers and DS4243, DS2246 disk shelves.The examples include cabling a single...
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Microsoft Outlook Email Prompting for Authentication
Microsoft Outlook Email Prompting for AuthenticationWhen you search for Outlook Email prompting for password with Exchange, you will find a large number of posts.There is a large number of causes and...
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