Automated BartPE Ghost CD Installer

Automated BartPE Ghost CD Installer

Recently Grayden MacLennan wrote to the Sysadmins Mailing List about using BartPE along with Ghost 8.x as a workaround for the Netgear GA621 DOS drivers not working in some buildings. BartPE will create a bootable windows CD, and from there we can run the slightly more reliable windows GA621 drivers and the windows Ghost32 client. The following is a list of instructions to recreate his work.

No Webinterface ESX 2.5

VMware

In mijn speeltuin heb ik een vmware ESX server draaien. toen zondag avond de machine weer aanslingerde kwam ik er achter dat de webinterface niet meer werkte. Na een reboot was alles weer ok. Alleen vanavond Dinsdag het zefde weer. Damn tijd voor onderzoek. De melding : 599 vmware-authd PANIC: getpeername failed: Socket operation on non-socket.

iSCSI and ESX Server 3

iSCSI and ESX Server 3

A few weeks ago I wrote about trying to use NetApp’s ONTAP Simulator as a VM under ESX Server so that I could do some testing with the new NAS and iSCSI functionality in ESX Server 3.0.  I finally got that working, but later had to shut it down when I started working with ESX Server 3.  As it turns out, the ProLiant 6400R servers I was using for my VMware lab (running ESX 2.5.x) were not supported for the final release of ESX 3 because the cpqarray.o driver was dropped from the final release, and the cpqarray.o driver is what supported the Smart Array 3200 and Smart Array 4250 RAID controllers in these two boxes.  No ESX 3 on these boxes.

.NET runtime Error : Unable to open shim database version registry key

  Situation: Error event in eventviewer when a user launches a .NET application. event :  The description for Event ID ( 0 ) in Source ( .NET Runtime ) cannot be found. The local computer may not have the necessary registry information or message DLL files to display messages from a remote computer. You may…

RAID : Redundant Array of Inexpensive (or Independent) Disks

RAID is an acronym for Redundant Array of Inexpensive (or Independent) Disks. A RAID array is a collection of drives which collectively act as a single storage system, which can tolerate the failure of a drive without losing data, and which can operate independently of each other.

Various RAID Classes
RAID 0                                                                Striping
RAID 1                                                                Mirroring
RAID 0+1                                                            Striped Set Mirrored
RAID 2                                                                ECC
RAID 3
RAID 4
RAID 5
RAID 6
RAID 7                                                                Proprietary
RAID 10
RAID 1E
RAID 50                                                              RAID 05  + Mirror
RAID 53