So if you purchased a Equallogic and put it into production one of the first things that you notice is that your xTB didn’t go as far as you originally planned, this is because Equallogic by default comes with a 100% snapshot reserve on all volumes that you create. This…
Gnome3: Disable Hot Corners
I sincerely hate Hot Corners in Gnome3. This article will walk you through disabling them, because you probably hate them as much as I do (you’re here right)… So firstly what are hot corners, and why do I hate them? Hot corners is the upper left hand corner of your…
ESX 5: Link Aggregation with Netgear GSM7352S
As one of our final validation points in an ongoing project has been enabling ESX to use a LAG on both the Management and VM Networks. The last time we did this we were unable to get it to work, and it turns out the solution was actually very simple. …
Dell PowerConnect 6224: Stacking Module Dual Master
We use a couple of Dell PowerConnect 6224 switches in our storage network, however when they were first deployed we ran into an issue with the stacking modules. Basically when you brought up the switches they would both see themselves as master, and would not “stack” correctly. Turns out the…
iSCSI Initiator: OpenIndiana
Alot of my time is spent handling storage from the array side, however recently I had the need to test both sides of the process in order to perform some exclusionary tests against a fully adaptable environment, without impacting our production environments, so I ended up using OpenIndiana 151a on…