Reading Time-approximately: 2 minutesBecause upgrades to infrastructure equipment can be expensive and difficult, the easier decision is to renew a support contract. But delay comes at a cost, too. By Brian Kirsch A major IT infrastructure upgrade frequently lands at the bottom of to-do lists. It’s just easier — most of the time — to extend maintenance contracts and maybe do a few
Reading Time-approximately: 7 minutesUnderstand, communicate, monitor, check logs, ask for support. Follow these guidelines, and make troubleshooting server problems quick and easy. By Adam Fowler Server troubleshooting is a fine art, but there are some quick and easy methods and tips to get things running smoothly. ITIL methodology delves into how to troubleshoot a server or a related issue more deeply, but the general theme is
Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesBy Robert Sheldon Lights-out management (LOM) is a form of out-of-band management. It enables system administrators to connect remotely to servers and other data center infrastructure to monitor and maintain those systems. With LOM in place, IT teams can keep their systems running and respond to potential problems no matter where they are located, even if they’re on the other side of
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
Reading Time-approximately: < 1 minuteThis is our promise. Your right to Redress if you ever get dissatisfied with any of our products and/or services. By Tekmart Africa management We strive to uphold the consumer goods and services industry code. By becoming a Participant, we believe that we are building confidence that you, as a client, will have access to an affordable and fair dispute
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
Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesData centers should consider alternate varieties of storage for different uses. Explore hybrid storage arrays, virtual storage, cloud storage and on-premises architecture. By Allyson Larcom The majority of organizations have multiple types of data to store. Data size, speed of access and application priority dictate what type of storage different data needs. As a result, many organizations use multiple different
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
Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesFreeNAS is a FreeBSD based storage platform that utilizes ZFS. The fact that it uses a popular enterprise file system and it is free means that it is extremely popular among IT professionals who are on constrained budgets. Post courtesy of: ServeTheHome With FreeNAS using ZFS as well as effective storage tiering using SSD and RAM caches, many users will
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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