Best Practice: Cabling an EXP810 to a DS4700
Tuesday, August 4th, 2009 Posted in IBM, Miscellaneous | No Comments »We’ve been expanding our storage capacity here at work in the recent weeks. As such, cabling all of these IBM DS4700s and their associated EXP810s (full of glorious fiber channel and SATA drives) became a task. The question has ...
Microcode Levels
Tuesday, February 10th, 2009 Posted in IBM | No Comments »I was configuring our twelfth virtual host this afternoon and ran across a weird issue. You see, we buy IBM Blade servers that go through integration, which means someone else configures the hardware for us. Unfortunately, I don't think they ...
Management Ports Gone Wild
Friday, June 27th, 2008 Posted in IBM | No Comments »Today, I learned a very important lesson. That lesson was that management ports on IBM xSeries server do not provide network connectivity (at least not by default anyway). That's right. Huge news flash, right? Actually, the lesson was to have the ...