I’ve been trying to learn about the advantages and disadvantages of EMC Clariion MetaLuns.  All I really care about is performance and data protection, so this seems like a good choice

Here is some good information:

http://blog.scottlowe.org/2009/10/23/how-to-create-a-metalun/

http://www.emcstorageinfo.com/2008/03/type-and-benefits-of-meta-lun.html

http://clariionblogs.blogspot.com/2008/02/metaluns.html

http://www.emc.com/collateral/hardware/white-papers/h5773-clariion-perf-availability-release-28-firmware-wp.pdf

My theory is that I dont need windows updates.

copy tftp://ipaddress/flashimage bootflash:flashimage

This problem happens when using IE8 to connect to an exchange 2003 OWA instance that isn't fully patched (and you can't get your admin to patch it)

This fix also works for IE8 crashing while using (exchange 2003) OWA when you hit Send on an email

I grabbed the latest S/MIME Controls setupmcl.exe from the KB924334

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=41275DEC-4C01-4C41-AA64-C9DBE5EA3F7E&displaylang=en


file version 5.3.18.6 for the executable, when installed its version 6.5.7651.60

Installed that on my Windows 7/ IE8 machine and OWA now works again.

So I thought this going to be a case of someone adding a "outlook rule" to auto forward emails, but it turns out meeting requests were the only type of thing sent to the box where responses were forwarded to a large distro list. Turns out the fix was to go into Outlook/Tools/Options/Delegates. Someone had added a distro in there, and all meeting reuests sent to this mailbox forced a response "accepted" mail to everyone on that disto list.

Gmail's Evil account lockout tool, a great link for those of us who have google apps for email and have ever had gmail lock you out of your account for trying 1 bad password.

https://www.google.com/a/domainname.com/UnlockCaptcha

here is the easy way (unless it auto detects, cause that's easier)

Go into /etc/modprobe.conf

Setup the eth2,3,4, whatever just like eth0,1 whatever

go into /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts

cp ifcfg-eth1 ifcfg-eth2(new interface)

open it, modify the following lines
DEVICE=eth2
and
IPADDR=192.168.10.10
so you don't have conflicts

save it, reboot, you should now see it in your UI

I noticed that with openfiler 2.3 my nics disappeared after applying the updates. Turns out there is a linux kernel update that changes the Nics from e1000 to e1000e .

To get these nics back, just modify your /etc/modprobe.conf and change your eth0 to e1000e from e1000.

Reboot and it should be back to a-ok

I got an instructor level score, but that thing isn't easy. It's probably the most bizzare test i've ever taken. Most of the questions look like this:

You did X horribly wrong and against all best practices and recommendations.

Now you want to do Y.

What happens?

I dunno..I never did X wrong, so Y always works?

I'm just glad its over.

To diagnose a hardware problem on an HP Server with ESX and the HP software agent installed run

hpasmcli

then you can do commands such as
show dimm
show iml
show ?
etc....