Some quick server troubleshooting tips

Tekmart Data Center Team/ September 29, 2022/ Data Center Hardware, Data Center Hardware Terminology, Data Centre Servers, Server Hardware, Server hardware and virtualization, Tekmart Enterprise Hardware Tips, Tekmart Partner Content, Tekmart Support: Storage Systems' Implementation Tutorials, Windows Server OS and management, Windows Server Troubleshooting

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

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

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

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

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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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A simple visual method to distinguish ECC from Non-ECC server memory modules.

Tekmart Data Center Team/ October 26, 2021/ Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice, Tekmart Enterprise Hardware Tips, Tekmart Partner Content, Tekmart Support: Storage Systems' Implementation Tutorials

Reading Time-approximately: 2 minutesECC (and parity) memory modules have a chip count divisible by three or five. … Non-ECC (also called non-parity) modules do not have this error-detecting feature. Any chip count not divisible by three or five indicates a non-parity memory module. By Tekmart Enterprise Support By far and large, RAM today comes in the form of DRAM with DDR, DDR2, DDR3,

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Dell vFlash modules: An overview and their full partition management functions explained.

Tekmart EMC Enterprise Storage Team/ October 18, 2021/ Data Center Hardware, Datacenter Hardware Vendors' Release News, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice, Partner Content, Primary Storage Devices, Storage Vendors, Tekmart Enterprise Hardware Tips, Tekmart Partner Content, Tekmart Support: Storage Systems' Implementation Tutorials

Reading Time-approximately: 5 minutesThe vFlash features of iDRAC with Lifecycle Controller onDell PowerEdge servers. By Tekmart Enterprise Support vFLash is an SD card on the server’s front panel and it is connected to and controlled by the iDRAC. Itemulates USB flash storage to the operating system (OS), but its content can be updated remotelythrough the iDRAC network. Some of the applications of vFlash

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How to password reset EMC Clarion CX4-480 and VNX Arrays-ONLY if you have forgotten the password that is !

Tekmart EMC Enterprise Storage Team/ September 24, 2021/ Best practices for data center operations, Data center facilities, Data Center Hardware, Partner Content, Tekmart Enterprise Hardware Tips, Tekmart Partner Content, Tekmart Support: Storage Systems' Implementation Tutorials

Reading Time-approximately: 2 minutesBy Tekmart Enterprise Support Follow these steps to recover the password on the CLARiiON and VNX array. You’ll need to connect a PC to the Service Port COM1 on the SP – there is one port on each SP Management Module. Use a null modem cable. For a video demonstration, refer the attachments section. You need to create a PPP

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What is Remaining Rated Write Endurance in SSDs technical definition parlance?

Tekmart EMC Enterprise Storage Team/ July 25, 2021/ Best practices for data center operations, Data center facilities, Data Center Hardware, Data center systems management, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Datacentre energy efficiency and green IT, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice, Tekmart Enterprise Hardware Tips, Tekmart Support: Storage Systems' Implementation Tutorials

Reading Time-approximately: 7 minutesWrite endurance is the number of program/erase (P/E cycles) that can be applied to a block of flash memory before the storage media becomes unreliable. By Tekmart Africa Enterprise Support Team The Remaining Rated Write Endurance Threshold feature is supported on PCIe and SAS/SATA SSDs. The Remaining Rated Write Endurance Threshold feature provides added feature functionality in managing the threshold level

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I have lost the root password of my vCenter Server Appliance-How do I reset it?

Staff Writer/ June 11, 2021/ Batting for Tech in the Covid-19 Times, Best practices for data center operations, Data center facilities, Data Center Hardware, How do i...?, How-Tos and Other Useful Tips and Tricks, Tekmart Enterprise Hardware Tips, Tekmart Support: Storage Systems' Implementation Tutorials

Reading Time-approximately: < 1 minuteThis is a simple guide on how to reset the vCenter Server Appliance root password if you don’t have it or you acquire second-use data center equipment with the password set on them already. By Tekmart Enterprise Support Team Follow the below steps to reset the unit:- Take a snapshot of the vCenter Server Appliance. Open the VMware Remote Console

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