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Twas the Night Before New Years, sysadmin style

Twas the night of new years, and all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.  The little one had passed out, and we’d put her to bed.  We had all celebrated with Carson, Dick Clark and the rest. Mom in her kerchief and I in my cap, had just settled [...]

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HP VMware Technical Forum

I just returned from the HP Customer Focused Testing VMware Technical Forum in Colorado Springs, CO.  HP’s Colorado Springs facility is primarily the StorageWorks storage products location – specializing in their XP, EVA and MSA storage arrays.  I was very impressed with the amount of technical knowledge by the folks there, the facilities and not [...]

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Update: HP Bladesystem c7000 power supplies

As an update to my earlier post, we did need to replace our power supplies in the two enclosures that we had purchased.  We are in the process of replacing them over the next two days.  Our replacement units arrived in our warehouse yesterday.  I will upate with the process as we complete it.

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HP Bladesystem C7000 power supplies may need replacement

I found this alert from Aaron Delp’s blog about certain c7000 Bladesystems from HP which need power supplies replaced.  There is an “extremely rare” potential that if one of the power supplies fails, it could lead to a complete shutdown on the entire enclosure.  I’m out of the office today, but I believe our bladesystems will [...]

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