The things we buy for kids….
So yeah, my wife thinks that kids need some fun toys 🙂
My HP C7000 Saga: All 32 blades now in place.
Here it is in all it’s glory, the server rack is now jammed packed with HP Blades. 🙂 Below is a pic of the power draw for 4 active blades and 12 in standby mode, for the top chassis.
My HP C7000 Saga: Racking the servers
So after I moved the server rack downstairs, not to big of a deal, it was time to get it loaded up… That however is a MUCH bigger deal, since even empty the C7000 chassis weighs in at somewhere around 200 lbs. I recruited Jerry Buckley to help me with this, thankfully, he was available.… Read More »
My HP C7000 Saga: The 24U rack
Today with Corey’s help (thanks again btw), went and picked up a used Dell 24U server rack. Complete with Front and Back locking doors and both locking side panels. Very heavy duty, going to be a very nice addition for the C7000’s. As you can see in the photo below, it had a few servers… Read More »
My HP C7000 Saga: 2 chassis aren’t enough, 3 is better.
Ok, so I’m sure my wife thinks I’ve gone crazy by now, but she smiles and doesn’t judge, what a woman. I of course bought 2 C7000 chassis fully loaded with 32 blades in March, but one of the chassis was an older one. Now this doesn’t REALLY matter as you can upgrade the firmware… Read More »
My HP C7000 Saga begins.
Back in the middle of March of this year (2015), I bought one C7000 Chassis with 16 blades in it, a friend of mine bought one as well. We traveled to St. Louis, Missouri and picked them up. This is the picture of them in my Escape after they were loaded up. After loading them… Read More »
The SUN SUNFIRE X4600 M2 Server
Every once in awhile I get to go crazy and build something fun at home. This time it’s a new virtual machine setup, as my older one only has 32 GB ram and is getting pretty close to it’s limits. So, time to build something bigger, and cheaper, than I currently have. Plus, it’s a… Read More »
How to make newer firefox browsers work with older Sun iloms.
Found this the other day when trying to get my X4600 M2 Ilom to show up right in my web browser. Basically all the data was missing from the tables etc. (Note: I’m using Firefox 26.0, on Linux) — works on Windows as well. Neither Oracle, nor Firefox really care about making things work on… Read More »
Why ZFS is so cool…
So, I attempted an upgrade while not at the servers…but remotely. So I didn’t take a snapshot with vmware, thinking it would be a minor deal. Needless to say, the upgrade failed horribly, and I was really wishing about then that I had tried this while in front of the server AFTER taking a snapshot….… Read More »
Scrivener – Your complete writing studio
“Scrivener is a powerful content-generation tool for writers that allows you to concentrate on composing and structuring long and difficult documents. While it gives you complete control of the formatting, its focus is on helping you get to the end of that awkward first draft.” They now have a Linux (beta… but actually runs REALLY… Read More »