Troubleshooting Storage Latency – VMWare ESXTOP

After having some issues with latency on a data store i decided to look a little deeper and after a few google searches found this was the best way to find the culprit or at least begin to. Im not going to go into massive detail just how to get to the bottom of it. Read more about Troubleshooting Storage Latency – VMWare ESXTOP[…]

Putty Add-on – Finally all my putty dreams come true.

I finally had enough of connecting multiple putty sessions, and wanted my switches naming rather than IP as I am getting older and struggling to remember them all 😉 I headed to google and found this little gem…. MTPuTTY (Multi-Tabbed PuTTY) PuTTY is the most popular SSH client for Windows. One, and probably the only Read more about Putty Add-on – Finally all my putty dreams come true.[…]

Update HP Procurve Firmware

First up if you dont already download a free TFTP Server – recommend this one http://www.solarwinds.com/products/freetools/free_tftp_server.aspx Install and note IP address of machine installed on. For example here its 10.1.1.10 Log on to your switch… First, we will take a look at what version of firmware the switch shipped with (and already exists, therefore, on flash): Read more about Update HP Procurve Firmware[…]

Backup HP Switch Config

Easy one… Download a free TFTP Server – recommend this one http://www.solarwinds.com/products/freetools/free_tftp_server.aspx Install and note IP address of machine installed on. For example here its 10.1.1.10 Log on to your switch… Switch# copy run tftp 10.1.1.10 config1.cfg check the TFTP root directory and you should see your file – config1.cfg Done.

Windows Server 2012 R2 Data Depulication

 What Data Deduplication Does Data deduplication optimizes the file data on the volume by performing the following steps: Segment the data in each file into small variable-sized chunks. Identify duplicate chunks. Maintain a single copy of each chunk. Compress the chunks. Replace redundant copies of each chunk with a reference to a single copy. Replace Read more about Windows Server 2012 R2 Data Depulication[…]