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This article assumes that you have already have a certificate, a corresponding private key and the certificate authority certificate. This guide will not guide you on making a CA, certificates or singing a certificate. I would recommend using a OpenSSL wrapper tool such as EasyRSA for certificate management. The following steps assumes the following: You’re […]
The Adaptec ASH-1233 is a dual port IDE RAID controller card that features a Silicone Image Sil680 Sil0680 chipset. Drivers for it were never officially released for Windows 7 but this guide and drivers will help you enable your Sil680 chipset in Windows 7 (x64 or Itanium). The driver was released by Silicone Image but […]
Below are some code examples to help get your data out of an Oracle database into a PowerShell object quickly! The logic to manipulate data is the same regardless of vendor: load any required libraries, define the connection string, setup the connection object, use that connection object for subsequent queries and finally close the connection. […]
A host side migration between arrays can be a nerve racking task especially when you come across issues. Data loss is a constant fear in the back of your mind and what is your fail-back plan should you need to execute it. During a PowerPath migration, I learned the hard way that a host side […]
For retro purposes, I wanted to make an old instance of YaBB SE 1.5.4 a read-only version to look back with friends to get some kicks and laughs. I first upgraded from YaBB SE 1.5.4 to YaBB SE 1.5.5c. This was a small project try bring this up on a modern operating system, primarily around the […]
EMC Avamar Error 10007 is an interesting error with a little history behind it. After opening up a support case with EMC, they indicated that error 10007, vmx file is suspiciously small, is a legacy error message from the VMware vCenter 4.x version of vCenter. From what the support technician said, is that the VMX […]
“A general system error occurred: Failed to start migration pre-copy. Error 0xbad003f. Connection closed by remote host, possibly due to timeout.” “A general system error occurred: Failed to start migration pre-copy. Error 0xbad004b. Connection reset by peer.” Another issue, that I recently came across was a live vMotion issue where the vMotion migration would fail […]
After a disk has faulted, the disk goes into a transitioning or an equalizing state. EMC uses different terminology to describe the action of repairing a faulted disk. Transitioning or equalizing times can vary based on the type and speed of the disk but your SAN utilization will have a direct impact on how fast […]
Quest (Vintela) Authentication Services (VASD) provides schema extensions to Active Directory to authentication against LDAP by providing SID to UID/GID mappings and vice versa. In multiprotocol environments that provide NFS and SMB protocols to the same underlying data it becomes tricky with permissions and file ownership since it must be maintained in the *nix and […]
A mixed protocol environment means that you have two means of accessing the same data generally through SMB/CIFS/Samba and NFS. SMB is natively supported in Windows and NFS is natively in *nix environments. There are complexities an organization will always run into when running in a mixed protocol environment which is a result of how […]