Migrating Windows 2008 from Volume License to KMS Client›
This post by Microsoft explains it all…. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff793421.aspx
BMC CLM Caching and how to handle changes to Service Options›
Cloud Lifecycle Management (CLM) user interface is based on Remedy AR architecture/Mid Tier infrastructure so a lot of the Caching techniques from AR applies here. But we are going to highlight two areas of direct influence on performance for CLM that most users may not know. As some of you may know, Caching is everything…
Automating Windows DNS Entries›
Here’s a quick tip on how you can automate DNS records in Windows 2008 DNS server when you are dynamically provisioning systems that do not auto-register with DNS. There is a handy utility, part of the Windows 2008 DNS Tools, that allows you to do this from any authenticated Windows 2008 Server that is…
BMC CLM 2.1 SP1 INSTALLATION – Unable to reach CMDB. Please verify the credentials” received while creating POD›
If you receive this error when creating the POD, you did not create the Physical Location entry in the BMC.CORE:BMC_PhysicalLocation form. Also see BMC KB article #KA359450 here.
BMC CLM 2.1 SP1 Installation – Install Planner RSCD AutoLic›
In this series, we are going to cover many of the items of importance to deploy BMC Software’s Cloud Lifecycle Management. This is a great solution that we have been deeply involved in customer engagements to provide Private/Public Cloud offering. This article focuses on release 2.1 SP1. We are not going to cover the step…
Configuring BMC Bladelogic RSCD Agent Security›
The BMC Bladelogic for Servers RSCD Agent has three configuration files which are key to enabling remote users or Application Servers to interact with the agent. There are two locations where such files are placed: For Linux/UNIX Systems, these files are under /usr/lib/rsc For Windows Systems, these files are under C:\Windows\rsc The files are:…
Amazon Storage Gateway – and how it compares to others›
Today Amazon released their Storage Gateway Service which provides on-premise customers with an i-SCSI interface to the Amazon S3. At initial glance, we went -gulp- there goes the competition, but upon further review, we think that Amazon fell short on going to market with this: At least the customers we’ve talked to (Fortune 500, 1000,…
Cloud storage efficiency with TwinStrata›
Here’s a great article on what one can achieve with a cloud-ready storage appliance. Our friends over at TwinStrata hit the nail on the head: ease of use with intelligent appliance-based cloud storage solution. We’ve been evaluating their CloudArray solution for awhile, leveraging Amazon EC2 storage to offload costly locally-stored backup jobs and file server…
How to customize EMC ITOI Dashboard›
For those who leverage EMC’s IT Operations Intelligence Dashboard, there are ways to customize how the dashboard is loaded and data is presented. One of those methods we are going to cover here is the webconsole.properties file. Traditionally, when the Dashboard is opened (via http://<address>:8080/webconsole), it loads HTML which has two frames, one which calls…
How to enable HP OML ECS Correlator from command line›
For those HP OML fans out there, here’s a neat trick that isn’t documented anywhere officially. If you have a need to automate the deployment of OML, and need to deploy the ECS Correlator Policy to the Management server, use this: opcnode -assign_pol node_name=‘$MGMTSV’ net_type=NETWORK_IP pol_name=”Correlation Composer” pol_type=Event_Correlation That should do it for…