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Evaluating HP, Dell, IBM Solutions for small VMware deployment

Gday All, Currently doing some research for a solution to consolidate our 6 or so servers using VMware. We are looking to implement HA, DRS and VMotion. Our budget for the hardware is about $30K AUD and we currently have 10 users. We have the following server roles to consolidate and they are...

View Answer   |  Oct 13 2009  8:08 AM GMT
DRS, VMotion, IBM
asked by Chiper1

  5 pts.

Poweredge 2800 No longer boots

One of the servers I manage is a 4.5TB Poweredge 2800 with a powervault 220s running Windows Server 2003 that no longer will boot and is about 10 months out of warranty. I started having some minor problems last week that I assumed were software related but then I did a reboot of the server after...

View Answer   |  Aug 19 2009  4:35 PM GMT
PERC Arrays, Windows Server 2003, PowerEdge servers
asked by Kooch

  5 pts.

DELL DIMENSION 8400 ALARM BELL

It started about a week ago, quite loud one second ring that repeats for about 15 minutes starting at 12:15 PM every day. I ran Malwarebytes on both HDD's - Nothing. My Oregon Scientific WMR 968 weather station has no alarms set. DELL is behind hardwired router firewall and running AVG anti-virus....

View Answer   |  Apr 24 2009  6:03 AM GMT
Dell, Vista Home premium
asked by BillL

  5 pts.

Remove password

I am starting to take up computer repair and hopefully I will get my A+ ceretification in this field. A friend is going to give me an old Dell computer of hers to work on and she told me that once I get it to remove the Jumper to delete her password. Is this information true or could you steer me...

View Answer   |  Feb 9 2009  6:46 PM GMT
Password management, Microsoft Windows, Dell
asked by Player3

  10 pts.

How can I get my Dell Optiplex to see a USB keyboard DURING boot process? (So I can get to the BIOS.)

I cannot boot up my PC I just purchased. It gets to a screen that says no boot device is available. (This is not a hardware problem, I just need to format the drive.) I have a Windows XP disk and wish to install that onto this computer. Sounds easy to this point right? Well I did not realize when...

View Answer   |  Jan 7 2009  7:09 AM GMT
Dell, Boot, Dell Optiplex GX280
asked by Mjshellhm

  5 pts.

Dell 1750 system event log is full

Dell 1750 system event log on the system board is full and is causing the diagnostics to fail as it is saying that I have an old memory problem and I cannot delete it how do I claer the log

Answer Question   |  Nov 6 2008  11:06 AM GMT
Dell, Event logs, Dell servers
asked by Jonesb

  5 pts.

Netgeat Vlan help

Hi, I have got a Dell L3 Switch (PC6224) 1x FSM750S 48port Managed switch 1x FS726T 26port smart switch 1x GS724TS 24port smart switch My aim is to create a number of Vlans, but I am not entirely sure if this will work with the hardware I have got. If anyone could tell me how to set trunk ports...

Answer Question   |  Jun 18 2008  1:22 PM GMT
Networking, Cisco, Dell
asked by Michi

  120 pts.

Repeated network switch failures

This is now the third switch at a small business location that has failed. This is their only switch. The first two were Dell, and the last was NetGear. Each time power is fine, but no connectivity. Powering on and off does not help. It has been happening about every 2 months, and it always...

View Answer   |  Jun 17 2008  1:36 AM GMT
Switches, Dell, Network connectivity
asked by ElizabethS

  5 pts.

What type of network gigabit switch

We are a small office and currently have a Dell Power Connect 2124 24 port switch. I would like to upgrade to a 48 port switched seif managed.. Would the Dell PC 2748 suit our needs? Or can I use what we have and only route the PCs and laptops to the new giga switch?

View Answer   |  Mar 21 2008  2:13 PM GMT
Switches, Dell, Network Gigabit Switch
asked by Caddman

  35 pts.

Dell Laptop NIC not showing up

I hace had to wipe and reload windows XP pro on a school Dell Latitude d510. After, the default NIC doesn't show up in network connections, only the firewire adapter. After installing drivers from Dell, the wireless NIC shows up. I can't find any drivers from Dell for the NIC and I don't know...

View Answer   |  Sep 28 2007  5:24 PM GMT
Dell, NIC, Latituded
asked by HornetITguy

  0 pts.

Dell Optiplex GX520 hibernation/sleep mode issues

Hello, We have several Dell Optiplex GX520's on the network running Windows XP pro. They randomly fall into sleep mode. Moving the mouse will not wake them - you have to push the power button to get them out of sleep mode. Also we are not able to remotely wake them to do patch updates or remotely...

View Answer   |  Jun 26 2007  3:45 PM GMT
Tech support, Hardware, Networking
asked by jmello

  0 pts.

DHCP relay Agent in DELL switches

I have windows 2003 servers and Dell 62XX series switches (level 3 switches) and Vlans. As I understand in order for a computer to be able to receieve an IP Address via dhcp I need relay agent. This series of switches supports DHCP Relay my question is how would i assign computer to a specific...

View Answer   |  Mar 20 2007  3:56 PM GMT
Networking, Networking services, DNS
asked by dimchik

  0 pts.

Network Connection Freezes

For some reason, at random, among 20 PCs on my network, in the morning or during the day, the network connection stops responding for both intranet and internet communications. The only solution thus far is to remove the NIC from the Device Manager, reboot the PC, and let Windows XP Pro find the...

View Answer   |  Jul 28 2006  11:31 AM GMT
Tech support, Disaster Recovery, Hardware
asked by DboiSOBE

  0 pts.

Opinions about firewalls and VPN

I currently have watchguard firewalls and IPSec tunnels between them and the other watchguard firewalls. We also have remote users VPN into the firewall for access to our network. Our firewalls are fine but we haven't been that happy with the support over the last 5 or so years. We are joining...

View Answer   |  Jun 21 2006  9:56 AM GMT
Hardware, Networking, Networking services
asked by kevins74

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10Gbps backbone

hi i need some help completing a uni assignment. i have a 10Gb SMF cable backbone and i need to connect to a router that supports this. it also need to interface with the rest of the LAN, cat5e cable. i cant seem to find anything viable. any suggestions??

View Answer   |  Jun 7 2006  4:56 AM GMT
Hardware, Networking, Switches
asked by mattjgregory

  0 pts.

Possible Networking Issue

I am not a network guy but I'm troubleshooting what I think is a network problem(s). 1)Some workstations at my company are experiencing problems with slow saving of audio files when using an audio editor. Event Viewer sometimes has the following error message "A driver packet received from the...

View Answer   |  May 17 2006  7:54 AM GMT
Networking, Cisco, Bandwidth
asked by idapsdst

  0 pts.

Network Resource Allocation cum Planning cum Technical Problem

This is the real commercial problem face by my company. Well, the reason I ask this problem is I salute and respect all of you as I believe all of you are as good as network solution company out there, or even better!! Lets me rephrase the entire problem again. Company expand so fast that the...

View Answer   |  May 15 2006  10:17 AM GMT
Tech support, Disaster Recovery, Hardware
asked by hunkgym

  5 pts.

Design NEW network cum NEW IT infrastructure-2

Company expand so fast that the IT infrastructure is not fast enough to cater high volume of traffic; the initial design is not scalable. The number of new branch offices setup caused the company pay a high price in the leased line communication. Salesman and management staffs dial into company...

View Answer   |  May 14 2006  8:21 AM GMT
Tech support, Disaster Recovery, Hardware
asked by hunkgym

  5 pts.

deploying office 2003

I want to Look at problems in deploying office 2003 in terminal server environments and get user experiences on aspects like performance

View Answer   |  Mar 10 2006  8:37 AM GMT
Hardware, Networking, Lifecycle development
asked by eduado

  0 pts.

Remote Syslog with MySQL and PHP

Dear All, i want to set up a Remote Syslog with MySQL and PHP on system with whitebox linux,can some tell me a step by step on how to install and configure this,also the requirement needed to complete the task Regards Edwin

View Answer   |  Dec 15 2005  4:43 AM GMT
Hardware, Networking, Network management software
asked by eduado

  0 pts.

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