HP AP770B (Brocade 825) Direct Attach SAN Fix
Yesterday while setting up a new SAN for a customer I ran into issues when I tried to connect the ESXi hosts. The servers saw the HP branded Brocade 825…
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Moving to HP Cloud DNS Services
Update 2016-10-20: Since writing this article HP has shutdown their cloud offering. I now host my DNS at Cloudflare and it works great! The other day I got an email…
HP Gen8 MicroServer; Is it time to update your lab ?
This week at HP Discover a new MicroServer was unveiled. It was billed as a server for the really small SMB or for a college dorm or home server even.…
HP Storage TechDay (January 2012)
First I would like to thank Calvin and his team for inviting me out to Fort Collins for Hp TechDay, it truly was a great experience. Second I would like…
HP Storage TechDay
This week I’m off to Fort Collins Colorado to visit HP for their latest Tech Day on storage. This is my first invitation to the HP Tech Day events and…
HP NIC Teaming on 2008 Server Core
As part of an upcoming HyperV project, I was tasked with installing 2008 R2 Server Core with the HyperV role on an HP DL360 G7 server. So I started out…
Migrating External SAS storage to VMware
The Mission: Virtualize a very SMB customers file and document imaging server off of their aging hardware while leaving intact an MSA50 drive shelf. The idea is that because the…
HP t5745 ThinPro Terminal Review
While at the office today I saw a new HP box sitting on the bench beside of mine and after taking a look at the label I found that it…
Running vSphere 4 on HP P2000
Because there is no document published on how to setup and run VMware off of a P2000 I have put one together after reviewing the P2000 FC/iSCSI combo unit that…
SANiQ 9.0 Server ‘Clusters’
I installed the HP P4000 VSA software the other day just see if there were any major interface changes and did find one so far that I think will be…