Differences between Dell PowerEdge RAID Controller (PERC) types H200A and H200I and how to spot them.

Tekmart Infrastructure SecurityTeam/ September 26, 2022/ Data Center Hardware, Data center ops, monitoring and management, Data center systems management, Datacenter Infrastructure News, IT infrastructure management and planning, Tekmart Enterprise Hardware Tips, Tekmart Support: Storage Systems' Implementation Tutorials

Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesBy Tekmart Africa Enterprise Support You will come across a few different H200 models though with different Dell Part #(s): like 3J8FW, 47MCV and UO39M. All these models will be able to pass the disks directly through to the OS if you are in need JBOD support. The PERC H200 controllers offer the ability for the customer to specify any

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What is a data lake? an in-depth expert explanation, benefits and challenges they pose.

Tekmart Infrastructure SecurityTeam/ August 16, 2022/ Best practices for data center operations, Data center facilities, Data Center Hardware, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice, Tech Definition Updates, Tech Definitions, Tech Partner's Curated Content, Tech Snippets

Reading Time-approximately: 8 minutesA data lake is a storage repository that holds a vast amount of raw data in its native format until it is needed for analytics applications By Craig Stedman and Ben Lutkevich While a traditional data warehouse stores data in hierarchical dimensions and tables, a data lake uses a flat architecture to store data, primarily in files or object storage. That gives users more

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How to reset/recover Integrated Lights Out Manager (ILOM) password on Sun SPARC T4-2

Tekmart Infrastructure SecurityTeam/ August 10, 2022/ Batting for Tech in the Covid-19 Times, Best practices for data center operations, Data center facilities, Data Center Hardware, Data Centre Hardware Equipment Technical Resources, Data centre networking, Data Centre Servers, How-Tos and Other Useful Tips and Tricks, Infrastructure in the Data Centre, Sun SPARC Hardware, Tekmart Enterprise Hardware Tips

Reading Time-approximately: 2 minutesSystem administrators can recover the preconfigured Oracle ILOM local root account or the password for the local root account by using the preconfigured Oracle ILOM default password. By Tekmart Africa Enterprise Support To recover the root account password you need a local serial management port (SER MGT) connection to Oracle ILOM. In addition, if the Physical Presence State is enabled

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Hardware support for virtualization; an expert’s overview with examples.

Tekmart Infrastructure SecurityTeam/ July 29, 2022/ Capacity planning for virtualization, Data Center Hardware Terminology, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice, Partner Content, Partner Resources, Server hardware and virtualization, Server virtualization infrastructure and architecture, Tech Partner's Curated Content, Tekmart Partner Content, Virtual machine monitoring, troubleshooting and alerting, Virtual Storage Area Network (VSAN), Virtualization, virtualization sprawl (VM sprawl)

Reading Time-approximately: 5 minutesIntel, AMD and Arm processors optimize virtualization in multiple ways. Read up on the features for Intel VT, AMD-V, Armv9, Intel APICv, and AMD AVIC tech, as well as how they support VMs. By Stephen J. Bigelow Chipmakers Intel, AMD and Arm Ltd. implement instruction set extensions that enable hardware support for virtualization, but it can be difficult to make

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Upgrading or downgrading the IOS on an ISR (or similar) router; a simple how-to step by step guide.

Tekmart Infrastructure SecurityTeam/ July 20, 2022/ Data Center Hardware, Data Center Networking, Data center storage and networking, Data center systems management, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, How-Tos and Other Useful Tips and Tricks, Industry News and Expert Advice, Research Results and Trends, Tekmart Enterprise Hardware Tips, Tekmart Support: Storage Systems' Implementation Tutorials

Reading Time-approximately: 2 minutesYou can use these steps to either upgrade or downgrade the IOS on an ISR router. We have used the Cisco 2800 Series Integrated Services Router (ISR) in this example. By Tekmart Africa Enterprise Support First up, you must make sure you have done the following ready : 1) Get the new IOS to the router 2) Verify the integrity

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Step by step guide on how to Reset the HP ILO Administrator Password from Windows, Linux Using HPONCFG and from VMWare ESXi Shell.

Tekmart Infrastructure SecurityTeam/ July 7, 2022/ Batting for Tech in the Covid-19 Times, Best practices for data center operations, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, How do i...?, How-Tos and Other Useful Tips and Tricks, Industry News and Expert Advice, Partner Content, Tech Partner's Curated Content, Tekmart Enterprise Hardware Tips, Tekmart Partner Content, Tekmart Support: Storage Systems' Implementation Tutorials

Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesHere we will show how to reset the administrator password on the HPE server management board — Integrated Lights-Out (ILO). This guide is based on iLO v4, but it is also applicable to iLO3 and iLO2. Tekmart Africa Enterprise Support Post courtesy of: https://woshub.com/ If you have physical access to your HPE server, you can restart your host and press F9 during the

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Idle servers in the datacenter are a waste of energy.

Tekmart Infrastructure SecurityTeam/ June 21, 2022/ About data center as a service (DCaaS), Best practices for data center operations, Data center design and facilities, Data center facilities, Data Center Hardware, Data center ops, monitoring and management, Data Center Outsourcing (DCO), Data center storage and networking, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice, IT infrastructure management and planning

Reading Time-approximately: 6 minutesServers can be the slackers of the datacenter, consuming power without doing much work. Why not whip them into shape? By Fleur Doidge The Uptime Institute estimated as far back as 2015 that idle servers could be wasting around 30% of their consumed energy, with improvements fuelled by trends such as virtualisation largely plateaued. According to Uptime, the proportion of

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Creating data center electrical safety guidelines

Tekmart Infrastructure SecurityTeam/ May 23, 2022/ Best practices for data center operations, Data center facilities, Data Center Hardware, Data center ops, monitoring and management, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice, Tech Partner's Curated Content

Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesCompose a comprehensive electrical safety strategy and keep your data center staff safe from electrical hazards. Learn what best practices and standards you should consider. By Julia Borgini Data centers must ensure high availability, zero downtime and 24/7 service. Facility managers and technicians are skilled at maintaining these factors but might not always know all the electrical risks inherent in

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Safety tips to protect data center staff

Tekmart Infrastructure SecurityTeam/ May 23, 2022/ Best practices for data center operations, Data center design and facilities, Data center facilities, Data Center Hardware, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice

Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesSafety in the data center requires organizations to identify and address a variety of risk factors, from electrical systems to staff illness. By Allyson Larcom Data center facilities pose a variety of risks to the workers who operate them. Understanding proper data center safety is essential to protect staff. Common risks in data centers include environmental hazards, such as heat,

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Data center fire protection; what to know about them.

Tekmart Infrastructure SecurityTeam/ May 23, 2022/ Best practices for data center operations, Data center design and facilities, Data center facilities, Data Center Hardware, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice, Tech Partner's Curated Content

Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesProtect your data center from potential fire hazards through proper mitigation, detection and suppression. Then, create a plan for recovery in the event of a fire. By Robert McFarlane Despite the rarity of data center fires, they can devastate your organization when they occur. Good fire protection provides insurance you hope you don’t have to use. Good data center fire

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