Reading Time-approximately: 2 minutesThese parts, which fall under HP Renew programme run by HP, is a means to reintroduce returned products back into the market. These parts are returned for various reasons. These might include:- incorrect orders, oversupply, and cancelled orders in which case the product is new and classified by HP as “Gold” product. By Tekmart Africa DC Team This Renew program provides
Reading Time-approximately: 2 minutesIn computing, uptime is a measure of how long a computer or service is on and available. Downtime is the measure of how long it is not available. Services measure uptime as a percentage of total time. By Gavin Wright What is uptime? Uptime tells users how long a computer or service has been available. Historically, uptime was mainly a measure
Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesWorkplace tech firm releases study showing how firms are grappling with the depth and breadth of the return-to-office process and unveils new platform to help enable an effective hybrid workplace. Post courtesy of: computerweekly.com Just as businesses gear up for a model of working that will see a percentage of staff return to the office, research from tech firm Robin
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: 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: 2 minutesA converged network adapter (CNA) is a single network interface device that provides the functionality of both a Fibre Channel (FC) host bus adapter (HBA) and a TCP/IP Ethernet network interface card (NIC) By Robert Sheldon and Todd Erickson CNAs connect servers to FC-based storage area networks (SANs) and Ethernet-based local area networks (LANs). A CNA attaches to a server via a
Reading Time-approximately: 2 minutesFollow these steps to recover the password on the CLARiiON and VNX array. By Tekmart Enterprise Support Team You might have a VNX5100 array and encounter a situation where it was initialized by someone in the past and you no longer know the username and password to login to it from unisphere. Follow the below steps to recover that password
Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesHewlett Packard Enterprise has announced a new line of cloud-native compute solutions powered by Ampere Altra and Ampere Altra Max cloud-native processors. Post courtesy of: Harold Fritts With the new ARM-based HPE ProLiant RL300 server line, the company is targeting service providers and enterprises that are embracing cloud-native development. HPE ProLiant RL300 Gen11 The new HPE ProLiant RL300 Gen11 server
Reading Time-approximately: 6 minutesThe NVMe protocol is tailor-made to make SSDs fast. Get up to speed on NVMe performance and how it compares to the SATA and SAS interfaces. By Robert Sheldon The NVMe protocol has become the industry standard for supporting solid-state drives and other non-volatile memory subsystems. NVMe speeds are substantially better than those of traditional storage protocols, such as SAS
Reading Time-approximately: 8 minutesRAID protects data and improves storage performance and availability, but it can be confusing. Read about the different types of RAID, the pros and cons, and where they work best. By Erin Sullivan, Christopher Poelker and Stacey Peterson RAID originally stood for redundant array of inexpensive disks. Today, the acronym has been updated to redundant array of independent disks. But RAID’s purpose
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