HP Virtual Connect Manager

I was unable to definate a network set, or more accurately unable to define uplinks, the option simply wasn’t there.  Turns out when they say IE8 isn’t supported, they aren’t kidding.  I jumped on my ancient XP box running IE6 and suddently it works.

Ready to build a new VMWare Lab Manager 4.0 instance

After months of waiting to get all the parts and pieces together, I believe I finally have them all after getting my HP GBIC’s.

Here is the basic Setup

HP c7000 with 16 BL490c Blades, Dual Quads with 72GB Ram each

Dual Flex-10 and Dual Cisco MDS 9124 blades

EMC CLARiiON CX4-960 with 15k 450GB drives

And here is the part i’ve been waiting so long for…

Diskpart in windows 7 is awesome

MetaLUN Research

I’ve been trying to learn about the advantages and disadvantages of EMC Clariion MetaLuns.  All I really care about is performance and data protection, so this seems like a good choice

Here is some good information:

http://blog.scottlowe.org/2009/10/23/how-to-create-a-metalun/

http://www.emcstorageinfo.com/2008/03/type-and-benefits-of-meta-lun.html

http://clariionblogs.blogspot.com/2008/02/metaluns.html

http://www.emc.com/collateral/hardware/white-papers/h5773-clariion-perf-availability-release-28-firmware-wp.pdf

Does this seem bad to anyone else?

My theory is that I dont need windows updates.

Copy a license to a cisco device via tftp

copy tftp://ipaddress/flashimage bootflash:flashimage

red X when replying to email or sending new email via OWA on Exchange 2003

This problem happens when using IE8 to connect to an exchange 2003 OWA instance that isn't fully patched (and you can't get your admin to patch it)

This fix also works for IE8 crashing while using (exchange 2003) OWA when you hit Send on an email

I grabbed the latest S/MIME Controls setupmcl.exe from the KB924334

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=41275DEC-4C01-4C41-AA64-C9DBE5EA3F7E&displaylang=en


file version 5.3.18.6 for the executable, when installed its version 6.5.7651.60

Installed that on my Windows 7/ IE8 machine and OWA now works again.