October 2007 - Posts

BIOS Update Workaround

Published 25 October 7 1:20 PM | Charlie Russel

Several manufacturers have provided 64-bit BIOS flash utilities, but there are still some holdouts. Acer, for one, can't seem to manage to create one for their Ferrari, even though there are a lot of Acer Ferrari owners out there running 64-bit Windows...

Filed under: Hardware, HowTo, General x64, Ferrari

HP ProLiant ML350 G5 Server Experiences (Part 4)

Published 15 October 7 11:13 PM | Charlie Russel

Well, it had to happen. I knew there was bound to be something I really wouldn't like about this ML350. And I've found it. They have a LOUSY power supply. I've had two power supplies fail, for no apparent reason, in the little over six months...

Filed under: Hardware, ML350, ProLiant

EqualLogic SAN (Part 2)

Published 14 October 7 10:9 AM | Charlie Russel

So, in Part 1 I talked about the whole process of borrowing and setting up my EqualLogic PS3800XV SAN. Now that I've got it powered up, I needed to add IP addresses for it, and connect to it. Setting IP addresses is straightforward - you can let DHCP...

Filed under: Hardware, General x64, Server, Longhorn, Virtualization

EqualLogic SAN (Part 1)

Published 8 October 7 1:21 AM | Charlie Russel

In order to write about Storage Area Networks (SANs), you really need to have access to a SAN. Now if I had an unlimited budget, I'd happily have set up a SAN here in my office, if only for the simplicity and the ability to centralize storage across...

Filed under: Hardware, General x64, Server, Longhorn, Virtualization