Now that we have the basics configured its time to setup the first SSID (shown here as OSA-WiFi). This SSID will be used for Windows computers that are domain joined, this could be desktop PCs with wireless adapters as well as laptops and tablet PCs with built in wireless. To complete this section you will need a Windows Server with… Read more
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4 SSIDs 1 Secondary Academy – HP ProCurve + MSM VLAN Config
Its VLANs time! In this part of the guide I am going to look at the VLAN configuration required to get all of this up and running. For the whole setup we have the following VLANs being used- 172.16.8.0/21 – VLAN 2 Services which includes 172.16.8.4 as our Windows DHCP server, 172.16.8.39 as the Wireless Controller and 172.16.15.254 as the Smoothwall… Read more
4 SSIDs 1 Secondary Academy – Intro + Diagrams
In this series of posts Im going to look at the technical setup required for providing 4 different SSIDs each on its own network (using VLANs) which provides wireless services for a variety of services. For each of the networks I am looking to achieve something specific- OSA-WiFi – Domain joined Windows devices, served by computer authentication with the settings… Read more
How to enable sFlow on a HP ProCurve switch to use with PRTG Network Monitor
PRTG is by far my favoured tool for monitoring IT infrastructure. With its built in sensors you can check the PING time for a server, check that windows services are up and running or with a little tweaking monitor paper trays in a MFP (and so much more). A recently discovered feature for me is the sFlow monitor. This tracks… Read more
Virtual Desktops on PCI-E SSD – Intro
In this series I am going to be looking at how PCI-E SSDs can be used with VDI, I’ll be covering the hardware in use, the user experience and also why I believe PCI-E SSDs to be the best option to get your virtual desktops running as fast as possible.
Enabling the RAID Cache on a HP DL385 G7 Server
After posting about how having lots of RAID cache has a positive impact on local disk VDI I thought it best to mash together a little guide on how to get this cache setup so here it is! All screen shots are from a HP DL385 G7 server – other HP server models may have a different UI but the… Read more
RAID Cache and VDI
For the past few days I’ve been doing a little performance testing to see just how much an influence RAID cache makes when provisioning Virtual Desktops. The test was to create 20 virtual desktops and see how long it takes to get the first one spun up and ready for use and then to see how long it took to… Read more
What happens when you put a OCZ PCI-E SSD in a server?
For a while I’ve been wondering just how well a PCI-Express Solid State drive would work inside a standard off the shelf rack mounted server. Finally I have been given the chance to find out and as it turns out everything works quite nicely. The solid state in question is a OCZ Revo Drive 3 x2 240GB (from Novatech) and the server is a… Read more
A tour around the HP DL165 G7 Server
I am a self admitted strong fan of HP server hardware and in this video I’ll give you a tour around one of our servers at work. There is one little error in the video about ‘common slot power supplies’ – although the DL165 G7 is a great bit of kit the power supply isn’t of the new HP common… Read more
Latest update to HPs servers include 16 cores!
This is old news really but either way HP have updated a number of server models to include the new AMD Opteron 62xx processor series. The beefiest of all being the Opteron 6282SE which comes with 16 cores each packing 2.6ghz of clock speed. Naturally this kind of speed comes at a high TDP (in this case 140W) especially when… Read more