July 31, 2010 3:47 PM
Posted by: Nathan Simon
Advanced ILO,
ASR,
Data Center Manageability,
HP Integrated Lights-Out 2,
HP Intelligent Power Distribution Unit,
HP ProLiant,
ILO2,
ILO3,
system shutdown,
upgrade ILO firmwareILO2 has been update a little while back, if you are still running an older version of ILO2 I would recommend upgrading as it fixes some ASR shutdown issues amongst other enhancements.
Added the following new features:
- New HP Intelligent Power Distribution Unit
- Fully...
July 13, 2010 3:13 AM
Posted by: Nathan Simon
convert physical to virtual,
ESX,
Microsoft's Virtual Machine disk format,
starwind v2v,
Sysinternals Disk2vhd,
VHD,
VSSRecently updated, Disk2vhd is a wonderful tool that when used with Starwind v2v application you can create a pristine Server 2008/Windows 7/Windows Vista ESX Clone, every time.
Disk2vhd is a utility that creates VHD (Virtual Hard Disk - Microsoft's Virtual Machine disk format) versions...
July 13, 2010 3:09 AM
Posted by: Nathan Simon
Active Directory editor,
measuring the memory usage of applications,
memory analysis,
microsoft,
systinternals,
teched,
TechEd US 2010,
Windows,
Windows 7,
Windows VistaOne of my all time favorite application suites is Sysinternals. Here is what's been updated in the recent past.
Mark’s TechEd Talks Available
Mark delivered four top-rated, top-attended sessions at TechEd US 2010 in New Orleans and they, along with all the TechEd sessions, are available for...
June 30, 2010 4:58 AM
Posted by: Nathan Simon
Aero,
boot times,
facial recognition,
leaked images,
leaked powerpoint,
login credentials,
microsoft,
web camera,
Windows 7,
Windows 8I stumbled upon this while searching for blog worthy news...
A set of PowerPoint slides that appear to contain details about the next version of Microsoft's (Nasdaq: MSFT) Windows operating system surfaced Monday.
The slides indicate that Microsoft plans to tackle the long-running...
June 29, 2010 2:59 AM
Posted by: Nathan Simon
desktop,
HP,
HP Storageworks,
Lefthand,
P4000,
SAN,
VCP,
virtual appliance,
virtual storage appliance,
vmware,
VMware Certified,
VSAHey folks, HP and VMware are introducing a few new solutions that are product of 8 years of working together. I am focusing on HP's Virtual SAN Appliance, it is the only appliance that is certified as VMware Ready.
To give organizations affordable, easy-to-deploy infrastructure...
June 25, 2010 2:29 AM
Posted by: Nathan Simon
BING,
Google Search,
Internet Explorer 9,
microsoft,
WindowsI stumbled upon this blog while surfing the net and thought I would share this users story. He used Bing for one full week, but ended up using it for two weeks and didn't really notice....
I switched the settings on my browser toolbars to make Bing the default and promised to spend...
June 25, 2010 2:14 AM
Posted by: Nathan Simon
issues resolved,
vcenter server,
vmware,
vsphere 4 update 2,
Windows 7,
Windows Server 2008 R2Well since i like to follow VMware, I'd like to let everyone know that vCenter Server 4 Update 2 is out. With this release there has been guest operating system customization improvements, support for Server 2008 R2 64-bit / Windows 7 64-bit (had issues in the past trying to install on these OS'),...
June 10, 2010 3:42 AM
Posted by: Nathan Simon
netrouteview,
route.exe,
static route,
Windows 2000,
Windows 7,
Windows Server 2003,
Windows Server 2008,
Windows Vista,
Windows XPHere is a neat utility that i stumbled upon, when i was having routing issues on a user PC... yeah I know why would the route table be modified on a client PC, well it was for testing purposes...
NetRouteView is a GUI alternative to the standard route utility (Route.exe) of Windows operating...
June 3, 2010 3:39 AM
Posted by: Nathan Simon
32-bit,
64-bit,
bootloader,
BSOD,
disk2vhd,
microsoft,
P2V,
VHD,
vmdk,
vmware,
VMware Converter Standalone,
VMWare workstation,
vsphere,
Windows 7,
x64Why is it so hard to find out how to properly P2V(physical to virtual) Windows 7 32 or 64 bit? I looked all over the net, googled until i couldn't google anymore and could not find the answer. Everything I did would end up in a BSOD or Bootloader errors, so i gave up. Then one night I was...
