Archive for September, 2009
Posted on September 24th, 2009 by by Steve
The fix I posted yesterday appears to work in certain configurations. After hours of troubleshooting, researching, and being frustrated, I have found an alternate fix that appears to work 100% of the time. The directions here are Dell specific, but can easily be modified for any make/moel.
Dell Community Site
Uninstall Windows Server 2003 Scalable Network Pack [...]
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Tags: Dell, Driver, gt network, Inf, Network, network protocols, scalable network, Start, Uninstall, uninstall button, winroot
Posted on September 23rd, 2009 by by Steve
Today I setup a Windows Server 2003 32bit system, and windows did not have any drivers for my network card. This system was a Dell M600 blade (which uses the same Broadcom 57XX series NIC as the rest of Dell’s blade offerings, and 9th generation servers). I downloaded the NetXtreme II drivers directly from Broadcoms [...]
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Tags: broadcom, Controller Suite, Dell, dell m600, DHCP, dynamic host configuration, dynamic host configuration protocol, host configuration protocol, network interface card, NetXtreme, system, TCP
Posted on September 23rd, 2009 by by Steve
Today I began my work with VMware’s DR product, SRM. I’ll be using this tool to migrate a few hundred virtual machines from one datacenter to another, not for DR purposes.
The first issue I ran into took me quite a bit of time to figure out. It turns out that if you are not using [...]
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Tags: Best Practice, certificate, certificate request, command, default, esx, issue certificates, move, move project, SAN, server, site, SRM, ssl certs, virtual machines, VMware, vSphere/ESX