This post will explain how to use the vCenter Update Manager to create a custom Hewlett-Packard Extensions baseline, so that you can install the HP Drivers on your ESXi install and the HP CIM Management Tools. Having just purchased a set of HP Proliant ML110 G7, I...
The HP ML110 G7 works great with VMware vSphere 5.0 once the C-States has been modified. In the following screenshot we can have a glimpse of the Hardware Status of the ML110 G7. We can clearly see that this ML110 G7 with it’s integrate iLO3 controller gives the...
Last friday, I came across this very interesting deal, Two HP ProLiant ML110 G7 with Xeon E3-1220 (Quad-Core @3.1Ghz) for the price of one. So Two HP ML110 G7 for $960 seemed a great bargain to me. I got some extra Kingston memory and I should have some decent lab...
When starting to use PowerCLI 5.0.1 for the first time, there are a few things that will help you start off a good foot. I for one, have decided when installing the PowerCLI on my system to modify the installation to add the vCloud Director PowerCLI feature and...
Creating new databases for VMware vCenter is something I have to do over and over again. I use mostly Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 so here are six quick procedures to simplify the creation and make all your vCenter databases to the same standard. I keep my...
I’ve been deploying a Cisco UCS Chassis with multiple Cisco B230 M2 Blades. Yet the uplinks switches of the Fabric Interconnect are medium-Enterprise sized Switches, and not some Nexus 5K or better. In a vSphere 5.0 cluster designs you add one or more NICs to...
In the past few weeks I have had to reinstall and clean up the vCloud Director 1.5 database on SQL Server 2008 R2. After a few times doing it using the SQL Server Management Studio GUI, I decided to automated it using four simple Transact-SQL scripts, so it would save...
Onswipe have added a new plugin for WordPress that optimizes the content of a blog for viewing on the iPad. I have now enabled the functionality here. The Onswipe plugin has also been enabled on wordpress.com for all users having their blogs located there.
I have been running WordPress 2.2 (patched to 2.4) for the past 3 years. I guess it was time to clean-up and take the opportunity to upgrade WordPress to the latest release 3.1 Just need to figure out some of the widgets and the themes, but I’ll get there sooner...
This is only a quick review of the 1 day I had the HTC Hero with me. There are plenty of other reviews online about the screen, the interface and the inputs etc… I will only quickly address the things I had the time to test and use. I purchased a HTC Hero for my...
