A month or so ago I retired my old VMware Server hardware when I brought the new ESXi server online. Since then it had been sitting in the rack, dark and dusty. A shameful thing to do with over a terabyte of storage, right? Sure, the server specs aren’t cutting edge (dual hyper-threaded 3.0
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A client had an issue with their HP server last week. They called HP Support hoping for some major hardware exchanges but first were told (paraphrased), “You are way behind on firmware updates – until you update firmware for System BIOS, RAID adapter and hard drives you get no support from us!” (We’d never even Suppose you had about 20 Windows servers to manage. Furthermore, suppose that you’ve lost track of what file shares are on each server — and who has permissions to them. That’s the situation I’m in. I really need to document the shares and associated permissions for all of my servers. If nothing else, just to get I had my first experience with obtaining and installing an EV SSL (extended validation) certificate this week. I had expected the entire process to be much more grueling than it really was. Not that I’m complaining, but for the money you pay for these things… well, I expected to be worked over a bit more! The Last night I headed downtown to one of my data centers to upgrade a server. The server, an HP DL380 G5 (I usually add some Tim Allen style grunts after saying that) has been running a single quad core CPU since I rolled it out last fall. I’ve had the second CPU “kit” sitting on |
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December 16th, 2009 | 
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