Month: October 2008

Setting up and managing an EVA – HP StorageWorks EVA – HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array – 4100 – 4400 – 6100 or 8100

In this document we will see in detail all the hardware of these controllers, Disk Cases and Fiber Switches. Later we will configure an EVA 8000 new, Creating a New Disk Group, Creating Virtual Disks, adding hosts and presenting these virtual disks to the hosts. We will also update the firmware, We will create snapshots, Snapclones… all this from HP Command View.

Installing and Configuring an HP StorageWorks D2D – HP D2D

GOOD, In this document we will see how we can configure the hardware backup system under a Backup Exec 12d, In this document we will show how to connect this server that uses an iSCSI network to a backup server. We'll need a gigabit network to get started, we will connect the D2D to this network and the BackupExec server as well, The ideal, of course, it is a separate network and the backup server has a dedicated network adapter. We will use the Backup Exec server so that you can make backups to the D2D tapes or to your disks.

HP iLO2 Setup and Use – Integrated Lights-Out 2

This document describes how if we have HP servers we can connect to them using iLO/iLO2 technology over the local area network, and without the need to have a KVM and have to connect each server to the KVM (Keyboard Video Mouse) for your local administration, with iLO what we can do is connect a network patch cord to the socket that the servers bring to the switch and assign an IP address to this adapter. Then from any PC we connect with a browser to this IP address and we can connect locally to the server, as if we would be connected with a local keyboard/mouse/monitor or with the KVM. It's like a KVM virtual console.

Hirens Boot CD

GOOD, I guess by now everyone will know him, I don't even know why I do this procedure, But, well, I guess it will be because maybe someone doesn't know it and so I save you a lot of problems that you may have in the near future. I present to you the beast of beasts, this CD has hundreds of applications, But that's not the best, far from it, has tools to change keys to all existing versions of Windows (even XP and 2003), has to Clone disks, Recover lost data on any type of partition, it has antivirus/anti-spyware in case you can't even boot your PC, It has some so impressive that it repairs hard drives (I personally assure you that it usually works), Break BIOS keys, you have MSDOS versions that run and you see the contents of NTFS partitions and you can modify it, you have up to a mini-Windows98 that loads… […]

Configuración de GFI MailEssentials 9

Mailessentials is a 'plugin'’ essential to install on a server that has MS Exchange installed. Its main function is to be an Anti-SPAM server. Installation is simple, we download the GFI Mailessentials version 9 desde AKI, We unzip it and typical installation, what is needed now is to configure it, to do this, open the 'Settings' console:

Installation, Configuring and Using FortiReporter Using Fortigate

FortiReporer is a software to get statistics, Analyze your firewall. Analyze firewall logs and graph graphs. First you have to configure the firewall to send the LOG's to a LOG's server (A syslog) that comes with the FortiReporter by default, And then he pulls up statistics of what's going on in the firewall, and can be configured to be sent automatically by email, or keep them somewhere… The first thing is to download the file to be installed on a server with disk capacity. We can download it from its official website (It's a trial of 21 days) – HERE.

Setting up a Fortigate SSL VPN

This procedure explains how to set up a VPN using SSL to connect to any PC from the internet to your organization's LAN. All traffic would be encrypted using SSL. And you only need to have a compatible browser, without installing software. Two parts are explained: