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I recently contracted Lyme disease from either working around the house or training in Valley Forge Park. Unfortunately, I was on my back and in bed for almost an entire week and a half. I only went to the hospital (doctor's office was closed that … [Continue reading]
It was that time again for yet another upgrade to the old home desktop.I thought I had posted about my last upgrade but I can't seem to find the post right now. In any case this time it was the impending release of Battlefield 3 that ultimately … [Continue reading]
I just recently completed an upgrade of our Cisco Nexus 1000V from 4.0(4)SV1(3) to 4.2(1)SV1(4). Prior to proceeding with the Cisco Nexus 1000V upgrade we had to first upgrade vCenter to 4.1, Update Manager to 4.1 Update 1 and lastly the VMware ESX … [Continue reading]
The Nortel/Avaya 2245 Wireless Gateway is a essentially a protocol translator running Linux. The wireless gateway bridges between the Nortel/Avaya OEM'd SpectraLink wireless handsets (6120, 6140) which utilize SpectraLink Voice Priority (SVP) and the … [Continue reading]
I had a very interesting problem this past week that I thought I would share and even seek comment on. We have quite a few vSphere ESX 4.0 and even vSphere ESX 4.1 hosts running in our network. This past week we installed 2 HP DL-380 servers with … [Continue reading]