Server - Tricks Guide

Guide: NIC Teaming in Windows Server 2012

Posted by SiRu on April 22, 2013 · 4 Comments

Network Adapter Teaming or NIC teaming is a brand new inbuilt feature available in Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Operating System. The concept of NIC teaming is also called as NIC Bonding. By doing Network teaming, you can combine multiple network adapters to achieve fault tolerance, load balancing and performance. Microsoft included NIC teaming capability in Windows Server 2012 and I will show you [...]

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Guide: Restore HP iLO to Factory Default Settings

Posted by SiRu on April 10, 2013 · 0 Comment

If you are an Administrator of HP Servers, then you might have come across in a situation where you want to reset the HP Integrated Lights-Out (iLO) to Factory default settings. There can be numerous reasons to perform factory reset of iLO on your server. Here, in this article I will share the most commonly used methods to reset HP Integrated Lights-Out (iLO) to HP Factory default settings When you [...]

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Install Windows Server OS using HP Easy Setup CD on ProLiant 100 G6 and G7 Series Servers

Posted by SiRu on April 1, 2013 · 0 Comment

HP Easy Setup CD is available for HP ProLiant 100 G6 and G7 series servers. HP Easy Setup CD allow us to install Windows OS on HP Proliant servers. This CD is also packed with all required drivers, tools and utilities. In this article, I will go ahead and explain how to use HP Easy Setup CD to perform assisted installation of Windows OS on your HP Proliant 100 series servers. Remember that I am sharing [...]

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Guide: Install HP Service Pack for Proliant (SPP) on your Server

Posted by SiRu on March 27, 2013 · 0 Comment

HP Service Pack for Proliant (SPP) is a collection of drivers, software and firmware. SPP includes drivers, agents, firmware packages and utilities for your HP Proliant ML, DL, SL and Blade Servers. HP Service Pack is a single package which we need to install to update all drivers, tools and firmware of your HP Server. Just one package for all of you needs. Good, right? HP Service Pack uses HP Smart [...]

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How to reset iLO Administrator password of HP Server (HPONCFG)

Posted by SiRu on March 23, 2013 · 0 Comment

Ever wondered how to reset the forgotten password of HP iLO? Did you lost the iLO tag which was attached to the server and do not know how to reset the iLO password ? Or your Server administrator suddenly left the organization and you are left with bunch of HP Server without passwords? Are you are stuck like me? No problem, I think I can try to help you here I wanted to reset the iLO password of [...]

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HP Proliant Gen8 Server: Unable to boot Vmware from SD Card

Posted by Goutham on March 21, 2013 · 2 Comments

We were using HP Proliant Gen8 server and we have installed VMware ESXi Hypervisor on a SD card (internally connected to server system board). The server was working fine and our life was very smooth . Later we noticed one issue with this server!. The issue is, whenever we connect an external USB Key (thumb drive) to this server, the server does not boot to the existing VMware OS installed in the [...]

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IPMI over LAN (SOL) on HP Proliant Servers

Posted by SiRu on March 5, 2013 · 2 Comments

Intelligent Platform Management Interface or IPMI is a standard which allows remote management for Servers. IPMI makes use of Baseboard Management Card (BMC), BMC is a piece of hardware which is Always ON and will work regardless of the server being powered ON or OFF. BMC operates independently of the Operating System installed on the server. Moreover it allows server administrators to manage a server [...]

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