Welcome to the blog of mechanised.com

This blog is mainly a technical repository of information on Virtualisation tools and management for our hosting service.

Also for HP's Bladesystem that we use at both our datacentres.

Other articles are also included on .Net development and MS SQL Server as well as other interesting things we come across.

Friday 8 May 2009

HP warranty and care pack checking tools

Handy tools from HP to make sure your equipment is covered by warranty or that the care packs you've registered are applied properly.

http://www.itrc.hp.com/service/ewarranty/warrantyInput.do

http://www.hp.com/uk/carepack/

Little reminder as well, UK066E is 3 year 24/7 4 hour support for BL460's and UH311E is for the C3000 enclosures with the same cover.

Friday 1 May 2009

What are the best practices when it comes to VMWare ESX Server 3.5 and Open-E?

Whitepaper on best way to setup iSCSI targets from within ESX using Open-E, but still applies to any iSCSI SAN.

http://kb.open-e.com/entry/4/