Comments for The Systems Engineer

Comment on Lancope Ninja’s spotted at Cisco Live 2010 by Jody Ma Kissling

Jody Ma Kissling — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 21:56:32 +0000

So glad you posted the picture. Go Lancope NetFlow Ninjas!

Comment on Telco – Clear to the smart jack! by admin

admin — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 01:47:22 +0000

I would have them replace the smart jack.

Comment on Telco – Clear to the smart jack! by Derek Eugea

Derek Eugea — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:30:51 +0000

Great post. I came across this post after doing a search on google for signs of a bad smart jack.

I am currently in this same situation. A new remote site’s MPLS circuit went down after a week and a half of use with no problems. Yesterday, all of a sudden the connection goes down. I call my service provider (Mitel Netsolutions) and they troubleshoot the line with the LEC (AT&T btw). So the LEC does their testing and the line comes back up for about an hour and then goes back down (I assume it went back down because of additional testing). I then get a call from the MPLS Provider and they say the LEC says it is clear to the Smart-Jack and it is the CSU/DSU. So that was yesterday evening. So some time during the night the circuit comes back up and the remote site is working fine until about an hour ago when the line went down again. I call the provider they say well the LEC says it is your equipment we need to reboot your router and reset your CSU/DSU WIC first. So I do all this, and now I have no Carrier Detect light on my CSU/DSU. I have been doing this for 7+ years and have never had an issue with a CSU/DSU being bad and was wondering what your thoughts were? Thanks for any incite on the subject.

Comment on Thin Provision VMWare ESX Guest OS Disk by Merlin95

Merlin95 — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 14:05:01 +0000

Thanks for answering my tweet about Heaven. ,

Comment on A New Data Center by Matt

Matt — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 02:51:14 +0000

I just built a small data center for my company last year. We installed two 3 phase liebert UPS’s and connceted them to two PDU’s in each rack that had 10 outlets per phase. Lots of power in each rack (though we didn’t do 208 at the time, but I wish we would have)

Make sure that your rack accessories are made for the rack you buy. we installed Knurr racks (made by liebert), but the Liebert/Emerson PDU’s did not have mounting brackets to fit the Knurr racks (was very disappointed in this from the vendor) We had to manufacture our own to make it fit in the spots in the rack where they were suppose to, but in the end it turned out looking nice, just took a couple extra days.

Comment on VMWorld 2009 – CiRBA grid match by Will

Will — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 23:00:53 +0000

Here’s mine!

http://yfrog.com/0z1qomj

Comment on ESX to EMC Clariion Lun Map by admin

admin — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 05:11:06 +0000

This is tested working with ESX 3.5U4. It may not work on vSphere 4.0. I’ll test and try to find an alternative if it does not.

Comment on ESX to EMC Clariion Lun Map by Levi Beckner

Levi Beckner — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 19:02:17 +0000

I tried this but couldn’t make it work. -v as a switch to esxcfg-mpath isn’t valid? I’m running ESX4

Comment on ESX to EMC Clariion Lun Map by Virtualization Short Take #29 - blog.scottlowe.org - The weblog of an IT pro specializing in virtualization, storage, and servers

Thu, 27 Aug 2009 23:18:49 +0000

[...] Systems Engineer (no name provided) gives a handy one-line command to map ESX datastores to EMC CLARiiON LUNs. I’ll have to give this one a try once I get my CLARiiON up and [...]

Comment on Vista, why are you so big? by Dejan

Dejan — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 00:52:48 +0000

hey. Its like an organism this vista isnt it…i have it installed on a old 40gb hdd, and it uses 35 gb of it after all the updates n fixes, i have 2.5 ghz dual core n 2gb of ram tho and just random issues with lagging also, i assumed its cause its an old hdd that im using for primary… who knows