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TechCenter Chat Today: Migrating from Insight to OpenManage

Posted by marc_farley |  Posted in Inside Enterprise IT |  Posted on 6 May 2008
Svengali says do it . TechCenter chats are staffed by strong tech folks who know what the heck they are talking about. Even if you have an off-topic question this week, they are hard to stump.

 Svengali says do it

TechCenter chats are staffed by strong tech folks who know what the heck they are talking about.  Even if you have an off-topic question this week, they are hard to stump. 

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Dell's secret system management revealed

Posted by marc_farley |  Posted in Inside Enterprise IT |  Posted on 5 May 2008
I received a comment from Customer X Factor on one of last weeks' posts : Problem with Dell Managment tools is that, a) nobody knows how to us them or find them b) sales people inside dell dont push them, as they want you to buy 3rd party stuff that ...more>

I received a comment from Customer X Factor on one of last weeks' posts:  

Problem with Dell Managment tools is that,

 a) nobody knows how to us them or find them

 b) sales people inside dell dont push them, as they want you to buy 3rd party stuff that they can sell you.

The first part of that is actually addressable, although it is a bit of a secret that shouldn't be.  Dell's TechCenter has a lot of great information and technical chats -where they have access to lab equipment and can check stuff out - more or less in real time - or close to it.  Read this chat transcript from last Tuesday's chat if you want to get an idea of how it works.

Tomorrow's chat is on how to migrate management routines from HP's Insight Manager to Dell's OpenManage tools. 3:00 Central time. 

Then there's other stuff (technical papers/wikis) that describe stuff to make your lives' easier like the one on applying bios updates to Windows systems using Microsoft's SCCM.

As for the 2nd criticism - that our sales people don't push them.  I'm curious - what do they push?   Have others experienced our inside sales people prioritizing third party products over our own?  Just curious......

 

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Online demos of stuff you need

Posted by marc_farley |  Posted in Inside Enterprise IT |  Posted on 30 Apr 2008
Posted earlier today on Storage @ Work There's a few excellent live online events in the next couple days you might want to check out. April 30 (Today) 12:30 PM Eastern: De-dupe for Dell EqualLogic iSCSI arrays - featuring Exagrid's new iSCSI ...more>

Posted earlier today on Storage @ Work

There's a few excellent live online events in the next couple days you might want to check out.

April 30 (Today) 12:30 PM Eastern: De-dupe for Dell EqualLogic iSCSI arrays - featuring Exagrid's new iSCSI De-dupe gateway product.

April 30 (Today) 1:00 PM Eastern: VMware's Site Recovery Manager and Dell EqualLogic storage. I know a lot of people are going to be interested in this one - integrating intelligence into the recovery side of VMware DR!

May 1st 3:00 PM Eastern: Dell EqualLogic iSCSI SAN array live demonstration

May 2nd 10:00 AM Central European Time: In German: Live Dell EqualLogic PS Series array product demonstration

May 2nd 1:00 PM Eastern: VI3 (VMware Infrastructure 3) and Dell EqualLogic demonstration. Our online events calendar

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How much can you turn off?

Posted by marc_farley |  Posted in Inside Enterprise IT |  Posted on 25 Apr 2008
Technorati Tags: ken brill , uptime institute , greenbiz , Blades , Dell , Energy conservation , Green benchmarks , Green technology , HP , Hardware , IBM , Open Source Systems (OSS) , Power consumption , Power supplies , Sustainable IT GreenBiz radio ...more>

GreenBiz radio has an interview with Ken Brill of the Uptime Institute.  Its a bit long, but all the text is there so you can speed read through it if you want.

One of the more interesting things that Brill claims is that lots of energy can be conserved by turning off equipment that isn't being used.  Here's a quote from the interview transcript:

KB: Well, the institute believes that IT could radically reduce its energy consumption, and it would save money in the process. And there are a number of things that people can do and we're gonna be talking about these at our upcoming symposium. But the first thing that people can do is to go through their data center and identify what is running that could just be turned off. Between 10 and 30 percent of the energy consumption in a typical data center is for servers and storage and other things that is no longer in use.  And it could just be turned -- I mean, as literally, as simple as turning the switch.

Ken has some interesting things to say about blade servers too. Just like any other technology, there are important differences in blade server designs.

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An udder tasty bit from LoneSysadmin

Posted by marc_farley |  Posted in Inside Enterprise IT |  Posted on 24 Apr 2008
OK IT peoples, u should b c n Plankers good stuff , (this time on 2 vCPU VMs) He putin freshies in ur blogsphere every few daze I spose. -fargo farlee

 

OK IT peoples, u should b c n Plankers good stuff, (this time on 2 vCPU VMs)

He putin freshies in ur blogsphere every few daze I spose.   

-fargo farlee

 

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