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Upgrading to Ubiquiti’s EdgeRouter X SFP
New house. New city. New ISP. New router. This time I opted for the big brother of the EdgeRouter Lite, the EdgeRouter X SFP model. While it includes all of the goodness that I previously reviewed with the EdgeRouter, including the Vyatta based OS, the X SFP model includes some additional hardware capabilities. Why a […]
Reset ECC error counters and reset memory faults on UCS C-Series via CIMC
While troubleshooting DIMM errors/issues on a UCS C-Series, I ran into an issue where the ECC error counters would not reset after changing a DIMM and after multiple reboots. During the course of troubleshooting, I caused a bunch of other ECC errors causing a number of faults across the motherboard. All of these displayed an error […]
Playstation Vue is the best streaming TV service available
A couple days into a trial of Playstation Vue, I’m convinced it is the best IPTV service available today. The interface is sleek and available on multiple platforms, the performance of video is incredibly good, but best of all, its has a cloud based DVR features and the “catchup” ability to watch previously aired shows […]
Change is good and there’s lots of change in my life
Back in August, my family relocated to the Charlotte, North Carolina, area. For some reason, I’ve waited to share that news. Maybe it is a good thing. Not only do I have that news, but much more has happened since we moved. Funny enough, when I wrote PowerCLI Cookbook a year ago, the publisher offered […]
HPE is talking about Composable Data Fabric
Last week at HPE Discover, HPE introduced the idea of a Composable Data Fabric on the show floor to customers. While there was no specific product announcement around the concept, the idea is HPE’s vision for the future of software defined storage. The overall strategy will utilize HPE OneView for management and control along with HPE StoreVirtual as […]
With new HPE EdgeLine systems, its about data proximity
Less than a year ago, HPE announced a new set of products under its EdgeLine banner. These devices were created to enable the Internet of Things (IoT) to connect with other IT infrastructure and to allow IT to tap into sensor data and other capabilities directly attached to devices. With the term, Internet of […]
Solarwinds releases Network Performance Manager 12
Monitoring and management software company Solarwinds has announced the release of Network Performance Monitor 12 – a release that includes their most significant updates in the history of the product. Originally known as Orion, NPM is a comprehensive network monitoring and management tool. The new release features to major new features known as NetPath and Network […]
HPE unleashes monster sized SSD drives for its 3PAR StoreServ arrays
HPE announced massive new SSD drive offerings for its 3PAR StoreServ arrays — a 7.68TB and 15.36TB drive in size. The new drives double and quadruple the former 3.84TB high-end drive. And with these new drive offerings, HPE has leapfrogged the spinning disk capacities with this new generation of SSD drives with incomparable performance. Sizing […]
HPE Discover: What’s new in Storage at a Glance
Notes of interest from the HPE Storage keynote and announcements: Massive new drives – 7.68TB and 15.36TB drives for the 3PAR StoreServ arrays. The new drives are enabled by the 3D SSD technology pioneered by Samsung. The drives also benefit from Adaptive Sparing in the 3PAR OS that allows for additional spare capacity to be […]
What drives HPE Synergy and makes it Composable?
Last week, I posted about HPE’s Synergy Platform – their vision of Composable Infrastructure. My post had a hard slant towards the hardware components of the solution because that is the world that I generally live in. I received some comments about the post and I always appreciate that kind of feedback. I don’t […]
