Windows Server 2016 introduces native Virtual Machine load balancing. The idea being that Server 2016 Cluster Manager will now migrate VM’s to other Hosts in the cluster to level out the work load. This is roughly the same as “Dynamic Optimization” in …
The page file (aka. swap file) is the place Windows stores active data that it cannot fit into RAM. In days of yore, the simple rule was to put the page file on a disk separate from the operating system and …
Server 2016 supports Thunderbolt Networking which, put simply, is networking devices using simple and common USB Thunderbolt hardware. This is of particular use in Clustering because it is desirable to keep your disk storage used in the cluster on a …
Windows Server 2016 and Windows 10 have a new debugging feature named ACTIVE MEMORY DUMP which tracks only important memory information and ignores the rest. Most notably, if your computer is a HyperV host, it’s memory will contain the memory of your Virtual …
Source: @technology via Twitter As we are only a month into 2018, many businesses in Canada probably remain hard at work considering how they can refresh their services across the coming year and ensure they are providing the best possible …
We recently needed to get a 10 minute interview transcribed and I blew an hour testing sites, reading blog but generally going no-where. There were a great number of people that chimed in with such useful comments as: Just pay …
If you want to add or change the URL links that appear in your header channel art in YouTube, but cannot find the link (pun intended), you are likely using Google Chrome or MS Edge. There are several annoyances using …
Dell OpenManage Enterprise: OM Enterprise is the replacement for OpenManage Essentials. The underlying difference is that OM Enterprise does not use SQL (and OMEss does). More importantly OMEnt can be downloaded as a VHD which gets rid of all the …
If you have a Dell server you likely want the Dell Management tools but it can be confusing to figure out which product you need. Below is a quick summary of Dell OpenManage products: Dell OpenManage Server Manager: OMSA is …
If you are trying to install Dell OpenManage Server Administrator (OMSA) and you might see this alert / error: The installer has detected that the HTTPS listener is not configured for Windows Remote Management. You can either configure the HTTPS …
UPDATED Oct 17 2022 If you have a new Dell server, you will almost certainly want to update the firmware (and drivers, and OS and…) but there is a danger in flashing things in the wrong order. 1: Below is …
The Dell Lifecycle Controller is simply the management tool Dell built to update firmware. When booting a Dell Server you will be able to access the Lifecycle Controller but it may ask you for an IP address. My concern was …
If you want to distill the argument between Intel Xeon and AMD Epyc server processors down to three things, they would be: AMD’s interconnection of the Cores on Epyc is much slower than on Intel Xeon’s AMD Epyc CPU’s are …
If you are having unexplained performance problems with your WordPress Site and you have already tried: disabling ALL your plug-ins – 99% of the time Add-In’s) are the problem with WordPress sites installing a AntiVirus and running a scan on …
If you have tried to install the Junk Mail reporting tool using a tool like PDQ Deploy or straight … .MSI /q you likely have found that it errors out. If you check the logs you will see: Product: Microsoft …
A typical Windows cursor is a single pixel wide but it is possible to have a cursor that is much wider. In my case, I found a cursor that looked like it was two characters wide: This wide cursor does …