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Re: Talking virtualization

brad — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 12:41:35 -0000

A really interesting green computer technology I found is Userful Multiplier. It's where multiple people can use the same computer at the same time each with their own monitor, mouse and keyboard. This saves a lot of electricity and e-waste. A company called Userful recently set a virtualization world record by delivering over 350,000 virtual desktops to schools in Brazil. They have a free 2-user version for home use too. Check it out: http://www.userful.com

Re: PEER1 offers UK customers savings on UK hosting services

web hosting — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 04:51:32 -0000

Managed hosting is meant for those websites that are designed to host busy e-commerce sites and dynamic, database driven Web pages. Perfect for organizations that don’t’ have the time or capital to invest in server administration.

Re: IBM offers further support for solid state drives

Finlay J MacLeod — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 17:58:17 -0000

Check out Fusion IO - stunning perfomance.

Re: Stabilize the core and everything will follow (spend in the right way)

Finlay — Sat, 30 May 2009 14:08:12 -0000

Check out www.desktone.com and www.elastichosts.com

Re: Talking VMware vSphere 4

Finlay — Sat, 30 May 2009 14:04:16 -0000

Have you asked Dave Cherry if you can get VMware in Primark?

Re: Thoughts on Dell’s VIA powered server

Hippster — Fri, 29 May 2009 13:19:43 -0000

Hmmmm....... Where've I seen this before? ;-)

Re: I still really want an iPhone …

ST2 — Fri, 22 May 2009 06:19:26 -0000

Until it is officially available on Vodafone I won't be touching one; if at all

Re: What’s next for blade servers?

DanielBowers — Tue, 19 May 2009 22:32:11 -0000

I'm excited to see what innovation is sparked by Cisco's foray into blade infrastructure.

I see two different challenges to "unified" management. One is cross-vendor. I agree, what needs to happen is that open standards should be followed by all vendors, so that single management solutions can control everything.

The second challenge is cross-domain. Merging server, network, and storage makes sense when you've got a "medium" sized infrastructure. (Small infrastructures tend to be so acquisiton-cost centric, and "unified management" comes across as "too expensive".)

For a huge infrastructure, though, the network, servers, and storage are managed by different teams with different policies. The separate teams won't -- or can't -- manage things jointly. So there's not as much push to merge, say, networking and server management.

Re: Why I (blade boy) remain a 1u server fan

webperformancer — Mon, 18 May 2009 05:18:47 -0000

From my point of view the main problem for 1Uservers is their target market. The U1 platform is great but it's not enough for serious corporations, and small accountans usually prefer a desktop PC to run a database and a couple of other applications.

Re: How to tell the ILO firmware

Iggy — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 12:27:51 -0000

That's a great summary of the ways to find the iLO firmware version.

As an alternative, I have created a Linux script that will scan your network, find all the iLO's, show the hardware version, iLO firmware version, server serial number and server model in just a few seconds:

http://blog.nachotech.com/?p=63

This 'findilos' script is very useful to verify that all your iLO's have the right firmware version. I hope someone else finds it useful.

Thanks,
Iggy

Re: Your web site is your business - can we make server info easier?

BladeGuy — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 12:32:45 -0000

HP is supporting easy to remeber links directly to various HP products and partner solutions. Here are a few examples:

http://www.hp.com/servers/bl490c
http://www.hp.com/go/virtualconnect
http://www.hp.com/go/blades
http://www.hp.com/go/vmware

Re: Follow me on twitter

thehotaisle — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 19:07:20 -0000

Martin

Have you seen ElasticHosts.com the cloud computing company - they have just started licensing their cloud software. It's simple and advanced at the same time.

Good job on the blog

Steve

Re: My fondness for Dell M1000e blades continues

Shane — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 22:56:24 -0000

We just installed one of these and love it, especially when compared to our existing blade chassis stacked with 1855 poweredge servers. the biggest hurdle was the ongoing discussion between us, dell and our datacentre about the power usage. luckily it all sorted itself out in the end....

Re: Installing Nagios Agent on Windows

Rouro — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 04:50:14 -0000

i follow ur method , but , i didn't understant : we have two packages
1- nagios plugin
2- nrpe

is it right ?

this line : robocopy /s \\buildserver\share c:\progra~1\nagios
should copy ?? into the nagios dir (which i created)

Re: Lights out on servers - what you need to know

osakana — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 20:48:22 -0000

I think
DRAC meening...
function: Dell Remote Access Controller
physical card name: Dell Remote Access Card

HP Integrated Lights-Out
Sun Integrated Lights-Out Manager

Re: Lights out on servers - what you need to know

Will — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 14:56:22 -0000

IBM's BladeCenter products have Management Module/Advanced Management Module devices that perform the same function.

Re: HP iLO firmware 1.92 announced!

VL — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 22:08:56 -0000

Hi,

I experienced the same problem, where 1.92 would crash my ILO on two servers!

Re: The challenges of a virtual infrastructure

bladewatch — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 06:48:56 -0000

Thanks for that, I'll take a look.

Re: The challenges of a virtual infrastructure

Finlay J MacLeod — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 05:51:39 -0000

Look at the recent step changes in disc technology from companies such as Fusion io http://www.fusionio.com offering up to 18 times the current input - output available with spinning discs.

Finlay J MacLeod

Re: Installing Nagios Agent on Windows

Sid Young — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 18:54:33 -0000

NRPE_NT appears to work straight out of the box if you have a running Linux Nagios installation - the NRPE service works just like the linux version. I tried NSClient++ and found it a pain in the arse to setup... now to write some plugins in "C" to pull back the stuff I really want.

Re: Realization of virtualization benefits

swheel27 — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 12:21:26 -0000

You neglect to mention Dell blades. Not only are they the most energy efficient blades out there (blades, fans, PSUs, chassis design)--they also have a couple of blades entirely designed with optimized virtualization in mind. Some really great features, and some incredible I/O bandwidth and redundancy.

Re: Cisco and Dell continue the innovation

TAURINESUPPLEMENT — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 15:06:12 -0000

Always interesting see what's been producing by the lors of technology

Re: My ILO’s on its holidays - come back later

Jaremy — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 09:12:45 -0000

I have a couple of BL35p systems doing the same thing. This is the older iLO and (IIRC) currently running 1.91 or possibly 1.92. I can't reach the iLO https page or update the firmware via the version control update process. With my p-class blades, the issue won't be too bad since they include a chassis with the replacement system board, but I can understand not wanting to change your DL boards. Hopefully someone has a better solution.
On a side note, upgrading to 1.93 cleared out my bogus red health indicator lights on multiple p-class :-)

Re: HPONCFG - the HP ilo command utility

Lou — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 17:26:35 -0000

The link provided is broken - can you update the link? HP Site reports that this information is not found.

Thanks!

Re: DataSynapse continues to do well

anon — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 12:57:20 -0000

??? What's the great news? This is a press release designed to stem fears about the health of their business.

So they grabbed a dozen new customers - and not necessarily major ones - over the course of the entire year of 2008? Not really a big deal.

What the news really is is: a) our sales have gone way done, and b) we've laid off a big chunk of our staff. Not such great news that I can see.