Archive for August 24th, 2006

P2V of HP StorageWorks NAS b2000

Thursday, August 24th, 2006

The following is only a hypothetical situation and may or may not have actually happened:

You do a P2V of a HP StorageWorks NAS b2000. It goes well, no errors to report. You hook up the VMDKs to your new virtual server, and crank up your new server. You cross your fingers as you click the “Open Console” button. You sigh in relief looking at the “Ctrl+Alt+Del” logon screen of your former physical server.

But, what’s this?

“The server you are running cannot run StorageWorks NAS software properly. You may be in violation of your license agreement. Please contact HP support immediately if you think this message is displayed in error. The server will Blue Screen in one minute.”

You don’t believe it would actually blue screen your file server, what would be madness! A few seconds later, it proves you wrong. Oh no! What to do? (more…)

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End of Summer

Thursday, August 24th, 2006

The students are back Monday! Teachers have been back in full effect since Wednesday.

I’ve already noticed our old file server ‘going red’ due to CPU usage in Virtual Center with the teachers in session. I’m not sure why.. the server isn’t doing anything but serving files. I’m curious to see how it will hold up with all the students online next week!

Lack of updates has been due to the lack of time to work on anything interesting! I hope things calm down once the students are back in session. We will be working on a large website project to overhaul the school site and intranet pages over this year. Other than virtualization, good web applications are an interest area of mine.

I received an email from Damian Murdoch over at ozvms.com about my Ubuntu and VMware Tools article. So if you came from his site, welcome! I think it’s my most popular article, even VMTN has linked to it! (I really need a proper hit counter for this site!)

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