Archive for September, 2009

Posted on September 24th, 2009 by by Steve

Broadcom Static IP Issue – Update

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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Posted on September 23rd, 2009 by by Steve

Broadcom NetXtreme ii Driver Issues – Static IP won’t stick

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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Posted on September 23rd, 2009 by by Steve

SRM – Trusted Certificates

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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