With all the record breaking hot weather recently in the Seattle area (up to 109F!), I’ve had to reassess the cooling systems in some of the various server rooms and data closets I’m in charge of. Like many admins, I happened to take over responsibility for most of these server rooms at some point after […]
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This is something that I should have posted a long time ago. Sadly though, with things like PowerShell out now, old school batch files are quickly becoming extinct, even for hardened batchers like myself. However I still find myself using batch files of some sort from time to time, and often times I need to […]
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I recently hit a budget crunch where I had to find an iSCSI SAN for our ESX 3.5 infrastructure. For $800 I was able to find a used Dell 745N NAS device, but I couldn’t find any iSCSI SANs for anywhere near the $1000 budget I had… not even used ones. I decided to go […]
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I woke up early this morning and couldn’t get back to sleep, so I got to work early and tried to finish up a side project before my “regular” day began. I’m currently working on an internal web app that ties into multiple domain servers, and I quickly realized I needed to configure the web […]
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With the advent of PowerShell and headless operation, the Microsoft Windows operating system is slowly earning the much sought after status of ESOS or “enterprise server operating system”. But what about all those spiffy GUI admin tools many of us have grown fond of? If, for whatever reason, you need to launch one via the […]
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In cleaning out my junk, I found several hard drives that I pulled from servers and various workstations. I wanted to ensure I was not selling or tossing drives with data on them, so I connected them up to my XP workstation to kill partitions and reformat the drives. I ran into a few GPT […]
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Yesterday started out well enough… my TMJ was healing nicely, the sun was shining, the humidity was low, and the AC was on. It was all going great… until I changed one tiny thing on two of my Dell PowerEdge 850 boxes. I updated the Large Segment Offload setting for the broadcom NIC team on […]
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