Today we are going to setup the Windows 8 iSCSI initiator in under three minutes. Get ready to scroll quickly because this goes fast. By way of background, iSCSI is an important industry protocol. A high-level perspective is that iSCSI allows a client to mount a drive, located on a server, over a network and use it as though...
Today we are back with another quick guide. This one will focus on how to install Ubuntu on a Windows 8 desktop quickly using Hyper-V. Windows 7 XP mode was great for running Windows XP. For other operating systems, users often turned to VMware Workstation or VirtualBox. Those solutions, especially VirtualBox, could cause issues with VPN clients and other...
Today AMD announced the AMD Opteron 6300 series processors. As was expected the Opteron 6300 series followed the Opteron 6200 and Opteron 6100 series in a few major respects. First, AMD has retained the Socket G34 platform. It is somewhat amazing that two full processor generations later, the Socket G34 platform is still thriving. Looking to Oak Ridge National...
Today we are going to go over iSCSI Target setup on a Synology NAS, specifically the Synology DS1812+. For those wondering, iSCSI is a block-level protocol for accessing storage. Basically what that means is that the iSCSI client can address storage in a manner very similar to if the storage was a local drive plugged into the machine. Instead...
First off, I am writing this post on a 32GB Microsoft Surface. Windows RT thus far has been very interesting. I wanted to do a short series of pieces on some of my impressions over time. This is going to be my fist such post. As publishing does lag my experiences, my quick impression is that Microsoft is on...
Recently I had a user that wanted to compare 32GB USB 3.0 flash drives in terms of performance. These are not the huge premium 64GB + drives because first off he did not need anything that big, and at 64GB SATA III SSDs are often less expensive and much faster. His goal was to find a fast enough USB...
Dell DCS just confirmed that it shipped its 1 millionth server. It certainly speaks to the success of Dell's Cloud focused business unit
Today I am taking a look at Intel's low powered CPU's with the intention to show which would suit your low powered build.
I am trying to focus on three categories: HTPC, home server, NAS or other device. The below Intel CPUs are all newly released CPUs, the Core i7 and Core i5 ranges get the new 22nm Ivy bridge...
It looks like there is another IBM ServeRAID M5014 RAID controller with BBU deal. This time $139.50 for one day on ebay. Then the price "jumps" 10% to $155. The previous deal at $130 was great. For those wondering, this appears to come with Lithium Polymer batteries, typically newer than the Li Ion BBU. Again, like the previous deal,...
Many of this site's users have home labs for IT testing and certification. Microsoft threw these users a huge bonus with Windows 8, and something easily worth learning to deal with the "metro" UI. Microsoft's Windows 7 included XP mode which was great, but nowhere near as robust as Hyper-V on Windows Server 2008 R2. With Windows 8, Hyper-V...