Replacing failed drive in IBM DS3500 SAN On an IBM DS3500 SAN you need to regularly check the event log because certain informational events won’t trigger an alert but do indicate a likely impending drive failure. Seeing an isolated VDD repair is normal, but when you see one paired with a “Destination drive error” or… Read More »
How to setup the virtual storage on a Cybernetics miSAN Setup Virtual Disk We recently purchased a Cybernetics miSAN for VEEAM. It has a total space of 12TB. On disk is only 11.175TB. That is still enough room for my VEEAM backups. If you have not installed the SAN and/or setup the network interface visit… Read More »
Cybernetics Install and Network setup We recently purchased a Cybernetics miSAN for VEEAM. It has a total space of 12TB. On disk is only 11.175TB. That is still enough room for my VEEAM backups. Lets get started There is a quick start guide that was shipped with the unit. Follow those instructions. 🙂 Network setup… Read More »
The End of my #vDM30in30 Thanks for all the community for reading my horrible technical posts. As some not so good human interest pieces. This has taught me about what is takes to be a blogger and a community member. 1) Make sure your post a proof read!!! Thanks Greg Robertson 2) Write good content.… Read More »
Windows Update will not run on a Windows 7 PC Recently, I was working with a client that had VMware Horizon and they had an issue updating their Windows 7 base images. Basically, when they tried to run a check for updates, they would get the following error message: Windows Update cannot currently check for… Read More »
View from a VMware System Engineer A had a chance last week to talk to a System Engineer (Pre-sales) Manger for VMware, Doug Steen. Doug has been employed by Nash Finch and Oracle. He has a great understanding of VMware and the current market. The first topic was how do you get different silo to buy… Read More »
Migration to VEEAM When I started with my current employer we used a backup software called StoreServer. I was responsible for getting the tapes from the tape library and deliver them to the Controller to take offsite to a bank vault. In the afternoon I was responsible for putting tape back into the tape library,. After… Read More »
Dell SecureWorks The company I work for has used SecureWorks before I started. I really never realized how much they are doing. Here is a short description form Wiki. SecureWorks was founded as a privately held company in 1998 by Michael Pearson and Joan Wilbanks. In 2002 Michael R. Cote became President and CEO. In 2005,… Read More »
NPS Setup for a Secure Wireless network The first task in setting up Windows 2008 or higher Enterprise CA. This is to allow auto Certificate request. You need to be running Windows 2008 Enterprise edition or Windows 2012. Make sure your domain functional level is at least at Windows Server 2003. Create a security group… Read More »
Radius Setup on the Cisco 1200 AP Yes I know the CISCO 1200 AP is old. I had to re-configure it to talk to our Windows 2012 NPS servers. So here is the short walk through. Log into the AP Click on the Security Tab Then select the Server Manager In the Corporate Servers Server… Read More »