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I'm looking to upgrade my current HP 1810-24 v2 switch. I currently have a UBNT EdgeRouter X as well as several UBNT UAP-AC-LR access points. Right now I'm looking for something that supports layer 3 such as the Ubiquiti 24port EdgeMax (ES-24-LITE) or get a Cisco SG 300-28 28-port. Of these two...

Just recently moved up to a 8 bay Synology and now selling my Synology DS412+ with 4x 2TB Western Digital Red hard drives. The DS412+ has also been upgraded from 1GB to 2GB of RAM. $600 -SOLD-

In about 2-3 weeks time I will be receiving 24 new blades across 3 new chassis. Each blade consists of 4x E5-4640, 1.5TB RAM, 200GB SSD SAS, and 2x 2GB SD cards. My idea is to use the SD cards to install ESXi 5.5 U2, and maybe use the SSD for some sort of caching if possible (we use FC...

I'm looking for a solution for a small business here in town, they are getting to the point where they need to have a small server to centrally locate files, printers, and so on. There are only 3 computers in the office so I'm thinking about going with either Server 2012 Foundation or...

I know we have a number of users here that use Synology NAS boxes in their home labs so I felt it was appropriate to share this. Hacker Hijacks Synology NAS Boxes for Dogecoin Mining Operation, Reaping Half Million Dollars in Two Months - http://t.co/61sctK8ErM Here is a post on the...

I have several hosts that have RDM's (they are the bane of my existence) which is causing VERY slow ESXi boot times (4+ hours). I know there is a KB on how to fix this by running: esxcli storage core device setconfig -d naa.id --perennially-reserved=true And I've already created a script...

I currently use an HP 1810-24g v2 managed switch, it's fanless but only layer 2. I know HP has the 1910 but from what I can tell it has a fan. Is there a fanless layer 3 switch that you would recommend?

I have a Dell ESXi 5.1 host that I'd like to upgrade to 5.5 using the Dell VMware ESXi customized .ISO downloaded from Dell.com I'm familiar with upgrading a host using the .zip bundle running a command such as: esxcli software profile update -d...

VM with 32vcpu and 96GB memory. :rolleyes:

I just finished wiring my house with Cat5E and coax and now no longer need all the various switches and devices I once had laying around the house. TRENDnet TEG-S50g - 5 Port 10/100/1000Mbps Gigabit GREENnet Switch -- $20 shipped. TRENDnet TEG-S80g - 8 Port 10/100/1000Mbps Gigabit GREENnet...

I run a View virtual desktop environment of about 350 VM's and would like to have a monitoring solution of some type that would give me a dashboard if you will of the overall health of those desktops, the pools, and PCoIP protocol. I know vCops with the View add-on is available, I'm really...

I have two copies of Dreamweaver CS4 and one copy of Photoshop CS3. ALL three copies are in their retail box (opened) along with their original cd case. I no longer use the software and figured I'd put them up for sale. $70 shipped each.

I'm going to be running CAT5e throughout my house and am in need of a switch and looking for some recommendations. I need a total of at least 18 ports for all the data drops, connection for my Synology NAS, network printer, and two ESXi hosts (dual nics). I'm totally ignorant to networking...

NewEgg has a promotion on a few NAS setups that's sparked my attention and I'm ready to buy but not sure which one to pull the trigger one... 1. Synology DS412+, which is a 4 drive NAS. Dual core 2.13Ghz, dual NIC, 205.68 MB/sec Reading, 182.66 MB/sec Writing -- $599 2. Netgear ReadyNAS...

I've just purchased an EnGenius ESR750H router which features two external and removable antennas. I know the range on this router is pretty decent but I'd like to find a set of antennas that would further increase the range for both the G and N wireless modes. Anyone have any suggestions for...

I'm trying to diagnose an issue that's been plaguing the environment for sometime now, where a number of my datastores will disconnect from the host: We're making changes and trying to monitor if the situation is getting better or worse but it's hard to make the conclusion when there are...

I've not seen this before so wanted to see what you guys thought of it. I have a VM with high CPU % usage as well as high Ready time. Looking at the performance graph there is also a lot of missing data to top it off. The VM is configured with 4vCPU. I have found this KB article...

These are the few steps I do when creating a new "Golden" image. Luckily I don't have to do these steps all the time as I'll create the "Golden" image when there is a new upgrade such as when we went from View 4.6 to View 5.0.1. I like to have a new fresh machine using new virtual hardware from...

I'm wanting to build two esxi hosts that will allow me to do two things. #1: prepare for and practice for my VCP5 exam (hopefully taking later this year and the 5day course in the next few months). #2: practice and better perfect my View experience. Ideally I'd like to have two hosts and...

Let me start by telling you what I have now - currently one of my pools, a linked state clone pool of 90 virtual machines. The pool is non-persistent, deletes on log off, and is created using sysprep. I've been reading a number of things in regards to Quickprep and how much faster it is. I've...

Long story made short. We've purchased an EMC VNX5500 as an upgrade over our old Equallogic array. Once the VNX was online we started moving View Pools over to the new datastores. We then found out very soon after that the VNX wasn't setup correctly and now we're to the point where we're going...

Been looking for a solution to monitor, diagnose, alert, and offer capacity prediction. Noticed VMware offered vCenter Operations and wanted to know if anyone here is using it and what your thoughts are about vCenter Operations. I'm currently using vFoglight and some of the stuff on it I...

I manage just under 500 View VM's for the various departments at our company. One thing I've found to be more of a time consumer is keeping everyday type apps updated and current. Applications such as Adobe Reader, Adobe Flash, Silverlight, Shockwave, etc. A lot of my VM's are in a pool setup...

I'm looking at purchasing a Linksys E4200 to replace my WRT54G router, however I also need a Wireless N bridge so I can use it to hook up my HTPC and XBox that's located in my living room. I'd like to get a bridge that has 4 LAN ports - any suggestions?

I'm looking for a low cost but useable san/nas that I can use on my home lab. Will be used to practice on and study for my VCP exam. Would like to run 3-4 Windows 7 machines, and maybe a 2008 server or two as well for AD, DHCP. I thought about going with two HDD's in raid 0 for speed but...

I've just installed Windows 7 64bit on this pc and after the install I downloaded NOD32 and Malwarebytes. NOD32 is just a trial for the time being and Malwarebytes I've purchased. It's a clean install and about every 2-3 minutes while I'm surfing the net I'll get a notification from...

I've got two WRT54G routers running DD-WRT one as my main router the other as a bridge to connect my XBOX 360. Per the routers the signal strength is only about 40%, the two routers are 3 rooms apart. I've seen the antenna's on ebay for like $10 that state a 9dbi increase but have heard they...

I'm in the process of setting up a pool of 30 Windows 7 machines in VMware to be connected either via an HP thin client or web access via VMware View. However in doing this I want to setup the default profile so I can remove the themes, set a blank wallpaper, add a few desktop icons and set the...

I just purchased BBC2 last night, got home installed it and everything seemed ok during the install. When I first ran the game I got an error message about a DirectX dll file missing. So I went to Microsoft.com and downloaded the latest DiretX then ran the game - everything then seemed okay...

We've got 2-3 computers here at the office we've put Win7 Pro on for testing, the computers are on a domain and the account logged into the computers is also an admin. We've also even added local admin rights to the user on the computers. However we've ran into 3-4 programs that continue to...

In the past on our XP machines we've ran BGInfo to display just the host name, ip address, and IS support phone number. However in Windows 7 the desktop will change from time to time and now will wipe out the BGInfo. I'm looking for either an alternative to BGInfo, something that will at...

I have a Windows 7 machine that after maybe 30-40mins of inactivity will lose it's network connection. When I switch back to the machine via my KVM I see an icon in the system tray showing it's "Identifiying" the network and after about 30 seconds or so it will find it and connect w/o issue...

Anyone know of any supported wireless network USB adatpers that will work with Windows 7 64bit?

When using Internet Explorer 7 on a Windows XP Pro machine and I switch IE 7 to display in full screen (F11) it does however it also covers up the windows task bar even though Lock Taskbar and Keep the taskbar on top of other windows are both checked in the Taskbar and Start Menu Properties...

All of my users (1100+/-) are using Outlook 2003 and every three years we replace the computers with a new one. Presently we are manually copying each users .n2k (autofill) file, signatures folder, pst file, etc on a network drive then moving them back when the new computer has been setup...

I recently upgraded from a system that never had any stuttering problems and less specs (AMD 3700, 2GB RAM, 6800 video card, and biostar MB) to the following: GIGABYTE GA-P35-DS3L Intel E4500 dual core 4GB RAM 8800GTS video card I first noticed issues when having Winamp play and I type...

Ok this is probably a silly question to most but what in the world is the difference between a CPU that is 95W to say a 45W? I understand that's the watt's or powerusage, but since when did CPU's start really displaying that info and what's the benefit of doing so? I go to newegg looking to...

I've managed to collect a large amount of fonts all of which I just put in the fonts folder, however the system has become slower and slower and I understand loading a good deal of fonts can be partial blame for this, I'd like to know if there is a list of fonts that get installed after a clean...

Currently I'm running an Athlon 3700+ socket 939 cpu and I'm looking at doing a little upgrading. I've come across two CPU's that look good both in speed increase and price: AMD Opteron 175 Denmark 2.2GHz Socket 939 Dual Core Processor AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+ Toledo 2.2GHz Socket 939...

I've got a bit of a problem. I have two large SQL dump files that I need to backup on an USB drive. Right now the SQL dump job is setup to run each night at 10:30pm and takes about 4-5 hours to run, during the process the job places a 28GB dump file of the SQL database on another server. The job...