Dell EqualLogic PS Series Firmware v6.0.5 provides some key maintenance fixes for enhanced stability and performance of your Dell EqualLogic SAN. You can get the firmware for your SAN and all other documents by logging in to EqualLogic support with your support account.
What is Munin? Munin is a networked resource monitoring tool that can help analyze resource trends and “what just happened to kill our performance?” problems. It is designed to be very plug and play. A default installation provides a lot of graphs with almost no work. Munin can be installed on any Linux system (and there is a basic Windows version) and works with the plain old server-agent idea. The reason behind this is that you can create custom scripts…
VMware Labs released a new Fling called ESXi Google Authenticator. The download is available as VIB package. If you want to make adjustments it is also possible to download the source code. Quote taken from the Fling page: Google Authenticator is a project that provides two-factor authentication by using both a PAM (Pluggable Authentication Module) module and a mobile application for generating one-time passcodes. In ESXi Google Authenticator, we modified the source code of Google-Authenticator to enable two-step authentication on…
Login VSI B.V. announces version 4.0, a major new release of its flagship product Login VSI, the industry standard performance and scalability testing tool for Virtual Desktop Infrastructures and Server Based Computing environments. Who is Login VSI? Login Virtual Session Indexer (Login VSI) is a vendor independent benchmarking tool to objectively test and measure the performance and scalability of Virtual Desktop Infrastructures and Server Based Computing environments by simulating unique user workloads. Leading IT-analysts recognize and recommend Login VSI as…
Today DELL released the new firmware version for their EqualLogic FS Series. This release fixes several bugs and performs a BIOS update BIOS Update for FS7500 controller Nodes Dell recommends that a new BIOS update to be applied to FS7500 controller nodes. BIOS v6.3.0: This cumulative BIOS update is packaged with previously released fixes and also corrects the following issues: Potential Multi-Bit Errors and machine Check Errors resulting from Intel erratum BD123 with C-states enabled, averting possible system hangs at…