Archive for March, 2011
ESX4.0 on DL385 G1 servers
I was doing some research for a client regarding ESX support on servers and it got me thinking of a chat I was having with a client. As ever what works and what is officially supported by the vendors sometimes differs. My client had asked if he could install VMware ESX 4.0 on his DL385 [...]
Firmware upgrade on DRAC/iDRAC
I got asked about upgrading the iDRAC firmware on a Dell R610 by email: Hi Martin, Does upgrading the iDRAC firmware need a reboot and do I upgrade it in Windows or do I need to log on to the iDRAC itself? Thanks Mike I’ve summarized the reply email I sent to Mike. You can [...]
Talking about IT as an empowerment tool to your business and your user community
http://www.cio.co.uk/article/3267035/cio-profile-greenwich-unis-alan-broadaway-on-campus-infrastructure/?intcmp=HPF3 Much of what Alan Broadaway had to do when he arrived as head of ICT for the University of Greenwich was around streamlining the college’s systems. It was a process of ticking off the most obvious challenges first. When he came in (in 2006), his first project was to rationalise the server portfolio with [...]
Platform Computing furthers business analytics
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/platform-computing-announces-support-for-mapreduce-118834534.html SAN JOSE, Calif., March 29, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — Platform Computing, the leader in cluster, grid and cloud management software, today announced the company is now bringing enterprise-class distributed computing to business analytics applications that process “big” data using the Apache Hadoop MapReduce programming model. Based on more than 18 years of industry leadership in [...]
Maximum disk support for DL380 G2
I got an email from George asking about upgrading the disks in one of their file servers a DL380 G2: Can I plug in 300GB Ultra SCSI 320 drives into a DL380 G2 and will I be able to create a large drive using the on board controller? Thanks George The drives will work fine, [...]
NetApp is Future Ready for tomorrows data centers
http://www.netapp.com/us/company/news/news-rel-20110330-709682.html SUNNYVALE, Calif.—March 30, 2011—NetApp (NASDAQ: NTAP) announced today that it is one of the first storage vendors to support director-class multihop Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) with Cisco data center switches, allowing customers to create larger data center network fabrics and drive measurable value with speed and efficiency by connecting multiple cost-effective FCoE switches. [...]
HP MicroServer – Marjorie getting ready for ESXi 4.1
Check out our videos of our new HP MicroServer, we bought it yesterday and it got delivered today so we’re all excited here at the Bladewatch residence, I’ve got videos of the box being opened and it’s contents as we ordered the MicroServer bundle including the server itself, a DVD Writer drive, 4GB memory and [...]
How to use the HP Smart Update Firmware DVD
I got a question from Chris the other day asking me if I had ever used the HP Smart Update Firmware DVD, he had logged a call to HP to fix a BL460 G1 blade which was misbehaving and before they started swapping out components, they wanted the drivers and firmware updated, and that’s when [...]
HP NonStop BladeSystem innovation continues
http://www.v3.co.uk/v3-uk/news/2035894/hp-updates-mission-critical-bladesystem-servers-quad-core-version HP has updated the BladeSystem edition of its NonStop mission-critical server platform with a quad-core Itanium server model. The Integrity NonStop BladeSystem NB54000C sports a quad-core Itanium 9300 processor which will double performance over the previous model, the firm claimed. An article talking about the HP NonStop BladeSystem seeing double the performance through the [...]
Fujitsu delivers HPC platform in Wales
http://www.eweekeurope.co.uk/news/fujitsu-wins-major-hpc-wales-project-24505 Fujitsu will re-enter the European market with a £15m lighthouse supercomputing partner project Wales is set to become a centre of supercomputing excellence following the announcement that Fujitsu has won a major high-performance computing (HPC) deal there earlier today. The Japanese multinational won a competitive tendering process that involved a number of unnamed, but [...]
