Dell PowerEdge 1950 NIC teaming test results
I’ve completed testing of the NIC teaming on our new Dell PowerEdge 1950 servers. I’m more than a little bit surprised by the results, which I’ll get to in a moment. My initial assumptions were that...
View ArticleFix for make install / compiler issues with Intel e1000 NIC driver in SLES 10
How I was able to make and install the Intel e1000 NIC driver in SLES 10 Linux: Steps 1 through 3 of the e1000-8.0.6.tar.gz readme file are simple enough to follow when making the Intel e1000 network...
View ArticleHowto: Edit network card bindings in Windows Server 2008
Figuring out how to edit the order of NIC bindings on a Windows 2008 Server took quite a bit of Googling. It seems that you need to know a secret key combination to be able to view the Advanced tab,...
View ArticleFix: The IP address you have entered for this network adapter is already...
I brought up a snapshot of a Windows Server 2003 R2 guest today and could not login to the domain. After further review I found the server had lost its static TCP/IP settings – both NICs were set to...
View ArticleNetwork card configuration missing after P2V using VMware Converter
Last night I converted a physical Windows 2003 R2 server to a VMware virtual machine using VMware Converter Standalone version 4.0.1. The entire process was extremely simple, only four steps. After...
View ArticleHowto: Disable a NIC when running Sysprep
Disabling a network card when running sysprepping a Windows machine is easy. Two things need to happen: 1. Add the following command to the [GuiRunOnce] section of your sysprep.inf file...
View ArticleHowto: Edit Network Card Bindings in Windows Server 2008
Figuring out how to edit the order of NIC bindings on a Windows 2008 Server took quite a bit of Googling. It seems that you need to know a secret key combination to be able to view the Advanced tab,...
View ArticleFix: “The IP address you have entered for this network adapter is already...
I brought up a snapshot of a Windows Server 2003 R2 guest today and could not login to the domain. After further review I found the server had lost its static TCP/IP settings – both NICs were set to...
View ArticleNetwork Card configuration Missing after P2V using VMware Converter
Last night I converted a physical Windows 2003 R2 server to a VMware virtual machine using VMware Converter Standalone version 4.0.1. The entire process was extremely simple, only four steps. After...
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