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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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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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Solved: HP RBSU opens in Command-Line mode

Posted by SiRu on December 9, 2012 · 2 Comments

I never thought I will face this issue in my life, but it happened . When I turned ON a HP Proliant Server and tried to launch HP RBSU by pressing F9 key, suddenly Command Line window popped out! I restarted Server and tried to launch RBSU) again, but the story was same. Are you wondering what is HP RBSU? RBSU (HP ROM-Based Setup Utility) is the BIOS of your HP Server. HP Server RBSU (BIOS) [...]

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How to install Windows Server 2012 OS On HP Proliant Gen8 Server

Posted by SiRu on November 16, 2012 · 13 Comments

Wish to install Windows 2012 on your HP Gen8 Server and not sure how to do it? then you are at the right place!. This guide will explain how to install (assisted installation) Microsoft Windows 2012 Operating System on your HP Proliant Gen8 server. HP Intelligent Provisioning version 1.3 or later allow users to perform assisted installation of Windows 2012 on their Gen8 server.Wondering what is HP [...]

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Download AHS log of HP Gen8 server using Command Line

Posted by SiRu on September 25, 2012 · 4 Comments

HP Active Health System (AHS) is a revolutionary feature introduced in HP Gen8 Servers. Active Health System collects all the hardware changes happened on server. AHS does not use any CPU cycles of your server hence it does not affect your server performance. AHS is an always running process and it does not require any drivers or agents. AHS can be compared with Flight Recorders (Also called as Black [...]

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Install and Configure HP System Management Homepage (SMH)

Posted by SiRu on September 11, 2012 · 32 Comments

HP System Management Homepage (a.k.a HP SMH) is a System management software available for HP Proliant and Blade Servers. System Management Homepage (SMH) allows users to effectively manage their servers. The System Management Homepage is a web-based tool which simplifies the management of individual HP Servers. In this article, we will discuss how to Install and configure System Management Homepage [...]

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