Exploring the wonders of life and IT
Part of my tasks for the Data center Move is to rack, build, config the networking equipment. We have racked 99% of the network equipment and are now configuring everything. Part of the problem is the network hasn’t been accurately planned and the Firewall rules are for the most part incomplete. We have a lot [...]
The company I work for is building out a cage for our equipment and I am heading off much of the planning and foot work. Thus I am unable to post as often since I have little to no free time. I will be posting images of the Datacenter changes soon.
My employer is evaluating (evaluating in the sense that we haven’t bought yet but intend to in a month) Jira and Confluence. It has been in active use by our Senior Systems Admin since he started and no one has really migrated to it. I kind of avoided migrating as I don’t want to adapt [...]
Recently our Sr. Director of IT sent out a Calendar invite to the team for meetings to plan our major project. He sent this meeting to a few select developers and the Operations group. But when he sent to the Operations group, he didn’t expand the group and add each user. He added the Security [...]
After finding all the recommendations online to not work. I was forced to completely rebuild the system. This means since its a Dell PowerEdge 2950 with PERC6/i, I had to delete all RAID Virtual Disks. The reason for this was a glitch I had found when first installing the box some 5 months ago. If [...]
Not sure how to say this but… Apple sucks sometimes! I, being the dutiful Applite that i am, purchased the Airport Extreme for my home. I bought it so that I get the most out of my 802.11 N experience. Being this is acting as my home router i have found some weird anomalies with [...]
I had built my first ESXi host with homebrewed hardware. There was a bunch of hardware lying around and had heard of people installing ESXi on their hardware (Mike D’s ESXi Host) As having ones own host beats using Fusion any day, I couldn’t resist. I am in the process of building an iSCSI server [...]
So I have a new ESXi host i setup about 5 months ago and was never used (and of course when it was set up it was HIGHEST PRIORITY). So I am trying to go back to the box and the password that have documented is not working, a couple of people had access to [...]
Greetings, Welcome to Intriguing Problems. This is a blog where I can document the many things I have found and discovered resolution to. Many of my topics will be exploring my work projects (these tend to be the most productive to talk about). These Projects range from Linux Administration to Network Administration. I will also [...]