In my current role within Dell I do pick up a lot of info about customer systems. Usually I get involved when performance is lagging and customers are complaining. From there I have to educate both the customer and the Dell force, in how to size a Equallogic array properly. Denmark being a small country,   Read More …

Unfortunately I had to re-evaluate my SSL config for the SSL-chain on the Kace K3000 virtual appliance. But what I found was i neat script that created the right key + certificate and intermediate certificate. Use this for your own convinience. ———-snip——————- # SHA512 testcase — all 3 layers. # LEN=${LEN:-2048} # create a root.   Read More …

Are you trying to create the SSL key certificate chain for the superb KACE K3000 ? Use this short guide. Disclaimer; I found most of it on the web, but has made some alterations to handle the 2014+ security. openssl genrsa -des3 -out ca.key 4096 openssl req -new -x509 -days 1825 -key ca.key -out ca.crt   Read More …

Do you need an guide how to use the VSS/VDS features in Windows Server 2012 when configuring a new volume. Use this simple guide, and avoid using the JAVA interface of Equallogic when creating new LUNS/volumes. First of all you need to install the Equallogic HIT/ME toolkit (Host Integration Toolkit/Microsoft Edition), which is downloadable from   Read More …

I do see a lot of questions regarding Equallogic and IOPS, especially after the Hybrid arrays surfaced in to the public. The XVS from the PS6000-series and the new XS from the 4100 and 6100 series are those arrays I get an IOPS request for most often. But it is not so simpel to state   Read More …

I`m playing around with the new client hyper-v role in Windows 8 Pro ,and it seems like Windows is not just for the mainstreame user. The last couple of days there’s been a lot of writing for and against Hyper-V for the professional users. From my view Microsoft finally got it right, I do not   Read More …

Dell recently released the latest series of PS-series array in the Equallogic family,this release with the series 14 and 17 controllers adds 10Gbit to the 6100 and 4100’s. What’s most important with these arrays, is the addition of both copper and fiberbased 10Gbit connections. The copper is standard RJ-45 whch requires Kat-7 cabling, but together   Read More …

Here at this site, I will keep al my arcles written in english. It might be in a combination of both uk-english, and us-english as I get my influence on the language from both sources. Most of the time the blogs right here will contain some rather nerdy stuff about server, storage and networking and   Read More …

These are very useful in my line of work DCB  = Data Center Bridging FC Native Fibre Channel = Protocol FCF = Fibre Channel Forwarder (an Ethernet switch capable of handling Encapsulation/De-encapsulation of FCoE frames and some or all FC services) FCID = Fibre Channel ID (24 Bit Routable address) FCoE = Fibre Channel over   Read More …

Melodi: Yesterday Yesterday, All those backups seemed a waste of pay. Now my database has gone away. Oh I believe in yesterday. Suddenly, There’s not half the files there used to be, And there’s a milestone hanging over me The system crashed so suddenly. I pushed something wrong What it was I could not say.   Read More …