Working onsite today with one of my clients, they have a large number of servers across multiple sites. One of the clients IT team asked me why two of their servers were displaying a very strange and empty page for the HP Power Manager console. The HP Power Manager console is a web based interface that runs on the server and displays all the relevant information and … [Read more...]
iPad competitors coming out soon.
Once again, it looks like Apple have a winner on their hands with the iPad. I say that not based on the huge worldwide sales (because there aren’t any outside the US just yet), but based on the fact that so many of the competition, like HP and Dell are leaking information on their own iPad competitors. In a world where imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, this can … [Read more...]
Hyper-V for SMB Case Studies
During today’s webcast with ThirdTier, I used the example of a client scenario that we (Correct Solutions) used technology to solve real world business problems. The client was real, the scenario was real, and the solution was real. That is what makes it more exciting. It was not just some hypothetical solution, but something we deployed for this client (and … [Read more...]
How can I expand or migrate a RAID set on a HP RAID Controller?
I recently needed to expand a RAID array on my HP ML350 G5 test server from a 5 drives RAID 0 configuration to a 6 drive RAID 5 configuration so that I could have redundancy as well as performance. My server has a HP P400 Smart Array Controller, but this process is pretty much the same on all HP RAID controllers used in the 300 series or higher servers. To expand … [Read more...]
How to check your HP systems warranty status online.
I was onsite today checking out problems with a network printer that was causing a massive problem on the network. It’s network card was jabbering so badly that it caused 90% packet loss to pings between systems on the network. The printer is a HP Color Laser Jet 3800 DN and I have no idea when it was purchased or even if it was still under warranty. I used a … [Read more...]