What is lights-out management (LOM) and how does it relate to dark data center ?

Tekmart Data Center Team/ September 27, 2022/ Data Center Hardware, Data center hardware and strategy, Data Centre Hardware Equipment Technical Resources, Data Centre Servers, Data Storage Hardware, Datacenter Hardware Vendors' Release News, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Server Hardware, Server hardware and virtualization, Tekmart Enterprise Hardware Tips, Trends: Datacenter Hardware and Solutions, WHY??: Explanations on data center hardware

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

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What is a converged network adapter (CNA) when we talk about network adapters? A short expert explanation with examples…

Tekmart Data Center Team/ July 29, 2022/ Best practices for data center operations, Computer Storage Hardware, Data Center Hardware, Data Centre Hardware Equipment Technical Resources, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, How do i...?, Industry News and Expert Advice, Server Hardware, Tech Definitions, Tech Partner's Curated Content, Technical Explanations, WHY??: Explanations on data center hardware

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

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How to recover the password on a CLARiiON and VNX arrays.

Tekmart EMC Enterprise Storage Team/ July 17, 2022/ Data Centre Hardware Equipment Technical Resources, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Dell Datacenter Hardware, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice, Server Hardware, Server hardware and virtualization, Tekmart Enterprise Hardware Tips, Tekmart Support: Storage Systems' Implementation Tutorials, Trends: Datacenter Hardware and Solutions, WHY??: Explanations on data center hardware

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

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RAID levels: 0, 1, 5, 6, 10 and 50 compared and explained

Tekmart OEM Storage Team/ May 30, 2022/ Batting for Tech in the Covid-19 Times, Best practices for data center operations, Computer Storage Hardware, Data center facilities, Data Center Hardware, Data Centre Hardware Equipment Technical Resources, Data Storage Hardware, Datacenter Hardware Trends, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Dell Datacenter Hardware, Expert Advise and Opinion, HDD Technologies, Industry News and Expert Advice, Primary Storage Devices, Server hardware and virtualization, Server hardware strategy, Tech Partner's Curated Content, Tekmart Enterprise Hardware Tips, WHY??: Explanations on data center hardware

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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How to flash a HBA (Host Bus Adapter) to IT mode; step-by-step general guidelines using LSI SAS 3008 (IBM M1215) as an example

Tekmart OEM Storage Team/ May 29, 2022/ Best practices for data center operations, Computer Storage Hardware, Data Center Hardware, Data Center Hardware Terminology, Data Centre Hardware Equipment Technical Resources, Data Storage Hardware, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice, Tech Partner's Curated Content, Tekmart Enterprise Hardware Tips, Trends: Datacenter Hardware and Solutions, WHY??: Explanations on data center hardware

Reading Time-approximately: 5 minutesThis will make an LSI HBA card originally in “IR” mode (full RAID functionality) run in IT (Initiator Target) mode with the correct firmware revision matched to your FreeNAS software and will make it act as an HBA passthrough so the OS sees the drives. By Tekmart Africa Enterprise Support Team (portions of the original post courtesy of Patrick Kennedy)

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What is carbon offset?-definition, footprints and how this works.

Staff Writer/ May 15, 2022/ Batting for Tech in the Covid-19 Times, Best practices for data center operations, Data center facilities, Data Center Hardware, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Datacentre energy efficiency and green IT, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice, Tech Definition Updates, Technical Explanations, WHY??: Explanations on data center hardware

Reading Time-approximately: 5 minutesA carbon offset is a credit that a person or organization can buy to decrease its carbon footprint. When the number of carbon offset credits obtained is equal to an individual or organization’s carbon footprint, that person or organization is carbon-neutral. By Ben Lutkevich Revenue generated from the purchase of carbon offsets is often — but not always — invested in

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What is utility storage? an expert’s definition and explanation of the different types.

Tekmart OEM Storage Team/ April 2, 2022/ Best practices for data center operations, Cloud storage management and standards, Data center facilities, Data Center Hardware, Data storage backup tools, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice, Tech Definitions, Tech Partner's Curated Content, Technical Explanations, WHY??: Explanations on data center hardware

Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesUtility storage is a service model in which a provider makes storage capacity available to an individual, organization or business unit on a pay-per-use basis. By Robert Sheldon The customer purchases only the services, not the equipment itself, even if the equipment is housed on premises. The utility model is sometimes called metered services or storage on demand. The term “utility” is used because the

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Differences between load sharing and load balancing in network traffic distribution.

Tekmart Infrastructure SecurityTeam/ February 24, 2022/ Best practices for data center operations, Data center facilities, Data Center Hardware, Data Center Hardware Terminology, Data Centre Hardware Equipment Technical Resources, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Essential Technical Terminology you need to know, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice, Network Infrastructure, Server hardware strategy, Tech Partner's Curated Content, WHY??: Explanations on data center hardware

Reading Time-approximately: 2 minutesLoad sharing and load balancing are two techniques that work to distribute traffic across a network. However, their methods of balancing differ significantly. Here’s how. By Andrew Froehlich Load sharing and load balancing both achieve the same goal of meeting application and service delivery requirements based on traffic load. When comparing how to achieve this goal from a technical perspective,

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Understanding NVMe 2.0 specification and its related features;a detailed overview.

Tekmart OEM Storage Team/ February 19, 2022/ Best practices for data center operations, Data center facilities, Data Center Hardware, Data Center Hardware Terminology, Data center storage, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice, IT infrastructure management and planning, NVMe storage, Primary Storage Devices, Technical Explanations, WHY??: Explanations on data center hardware

Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesNVMe 2.0 added several features for storage administrators to consider, including domain support. The specification also made enhancements, such as to Endurance Group Management. By Jim Handy The NVMe 2.0 specification, published in June 2021, introduced changes to improve performance and to support new uses of NVMe. While NVMe originally supported only block storage, which was the way that storage

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Weigh these 6 enterprise benefits of storage as a service

Tekmart EMC Enterprise Storage Team/ January 26, 2022/ Cloud computing, Cloud computing for business, Cloud Storage, Cloud storage management and standards, Computer Storage Hardware, Data Centre Hardware Equipment Technical Resources, Datacenter Hardware Trends, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice, Security, WHY??: Explanations on data center hardware

Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesStorage as a service offers cloud procurement and remote management of on-premises storage. Benefits include scalability, utilitylike consumption pricing and storage optimization. By Garry Kranz Enterprises have realized the potential benefits of storage as a service. The idea is to let organizations buy storage in the same way they buy other cloud services. Using service-based consumption, enterprises lease on-premises storage from a

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