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.
We are on the quest for the best thin client for our uses at HTC. My co-worker, Jason, has been leading the evaluation process. So far, different people in my group have seen presentations from Pano Logic, HP, Wyse and we have Dell coming later this month. We have evaluated the Pano Logic solution and [...]
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 [...]
My week at HTC has been filled with hurricane contengency planning and preparation. For the most part, HTC is in a good state with two connected datacenters about 15 miles from each other and real-time replication for much of our data. Most of our planning is revolving around protecting the things that aren’t stretched [...]
One of my most recent projects at HTC has been implementing our HP Bladesystem (not to be confused with a BladeCenter – that’s IBM’s product!). For the most part, its gone extremely smooth and the solution is fantastic for a sprawling datacenter. It really allows you to consolidate and concentrate your computing in the datacenter. [...]
Since June of 2006, I’ve worked for HTC (Horry Telephone Cooperative), which by the way is the national’s largest telephone cooperative. Its offered me some great experiences and training opportunities. One of those is exposure to virtualization technologies. And this one comes with a story. When I started at HTC, my wife was pregnant and [...]
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