Dell Compellent Upgrade How To

Dell Compellent Upgrade How To

Reading Time: < 1 minute Hi all, I’ll try to explain, based on my experience, which is the best way to run successfully a CML upgrade. We have different scenarios: Firmware upgrade Storage expansion Hardware upgrade Firmware Upgrade First of all you have to understand the starting point and the ending point. It is really important which firmware is currently…

Configure VLAN trunk on CentOS/RedHat

Configure VLAN trunk on CentOS/RedHat

Reading Time: < 1 minute If you need to create a tagged VLAN on you CentOS/RedHat distribution follow this simple guide. I’ll try to explain how to reach this goal with an example. after that Suppose that a host should reach two differents VLANs both carried by a trunk connected to physical interface and that the first eth has ip 192.168.100.1/24…

Upgrade brocade firmware from USB

Upgrade brocade firmware from USB

Reading Time: < 1 minute Upgrading brocade firmware from USB is really simple. Just follow this procedure. Keep in mind that Brocade switches support firmware download from a Brocade-branded USB device. You cannot use a third-party USB device. Enabel USB usbstorage -e Upload and apply firmware firmwaredownload -U /usb/usbstorage/brocade/firmware/v7.3.0 Disable USB (You must unmount the USB device) usbStorage -d That’s…

Bonding On CentOS

Bonding On CentOS

Reading Time: 2 minutes Channel bonding is a computer networking arrangement in which two or more network interfaces on a host computer are combined for redundancy or increased throughput. We have different bond modes: mode=1 (active-backup) Active-backup policy: Only one slave in the bond is active. A different slave becomes active if, and only if, the active slave fails.…

VMware, RDP error after removing and adding a virtual nic on Windows 2008R2

VMware, RDP error after removing and adding a virtual nic on Windows 2008R2

Reading Time: < 1 minute Hi everyone, should happen that, after removing a virtual nic on a vm running windows 2008R2, and after re-adding a newone, you cannot connect using RDP protocol. The problem is related to RDP-Tcp connection. If you execute Remote Desktop Session Host Configuration unnder connection you can find the default connection named RDP-Tcp If you have a…

Install OMSA on CentOS/RedHat

Install OMSA on CentOS/RedHat

Reading Time: < 1 minute If you need to install Open Manage Server Administrator (OMSA) on a Linux (CentOS or RedHat) system the fastest way is the following: Note 1: These instructions work for RHEL5, RHEL6, CentOS, Scientific Linux. Note 2: The version of yum distributed on CentOS 3 by default is too old (yum 2.0.8). You will need to upgrade…

VMware Certified Professional 6 – Data Center Virtualization Beta Exam

VMware Certified Professional 6 – Data Center Virtualization Beta Exam

Reading Time: < 1 minute I took VCP6-DCV exam few weeks ago and according to my test i’ll try to explain how it is. Time: 120 minutes Questions: 100 Price: 50$ approximatly 34€, a little bit less expensive than the older beta version Single and Multiple Choice, Proctored During the examination I realized that the questions were not based only on…

vSphere6

vSphere6

Reading Time: < 1 minute After  vSphere 5 VMware announce the a new major release. In this release VMware vSphere® 6.0 introduces many enhancements to VMware vSphere Hypervisor, VMware virtual machines, VMware vCenter Server™, virtual storage, and virtual networking. Right now I’ll write just a list of the improvements so you can have a quick look on which parts are involved. Later…

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