Backup with trusted repository storage is essential (secure, reliable and efficient). Here’s a fresh example of data loss issues Veeam is seeing in support (Anton Gostev’s Weekly Word) from users who chose “low-end” NAS as their backup storage. What makes this one worth highlighting here is the usage of NFS protocol, which removes all those …
Category: Hardware
Feb 14
Spectre and Meltdown – Revert back to a previous BIOS version (Dell)
Hi, with the microcode included in the BIOS updates released to address Spectre (Variant 2), CVE-2017-5715. Dell is advising that all customers should not deploy the BIOS update for the Spectre (Variant 2) vulnerability at this time. They have removed the impacted BIOS updates from our support pages and are working with Intel on a …
Jan 30
Spectre and Meltdown – Intel identified the root cause…
Hi, just few days ago, Intel had received reports from a few customers of higher system reboots after applying firmware updates (reboot issues we reported Jan. 11). As of January 22, 2018, Intel did not recommend installing patches regarding reboot issues and unpredictable system behavior. Intel seems to have nailed the root cause of intermittent …
Feb 08
Problem with LSI 12Gb SAS HBA card unknow with ESXi 5.1 & 5.5 (Dell)
You added a LSI 12Gb SAS card in your server (Dell R20, R630, R730 or others) and the card is unknown by the server? Here there is the solution, you can just follow the post step by step. đ The problem come from VMware. Basically, upgrading VMware ESXi firmwares (in 5.1 or 5.5) drops the …
Nov 13
Test de lâultrabook XPS sous Windows 8
Cette semaine, jâai testĂ© le dernier ultrabook de Dell « XPS Silver » dotĂ© du dernier systĂšme dâexploitation de Microsoft : Windows 8 (64 bits). Le but Ă©tait par la mĂȘme occasion de se familiariser avec la fonctionnalitĂ© « Synchroniser vos appareils » mais Ă©galement d’expĂ©rimenter la rĂ©activitĂ© de l’OS sur un disque dur SSD. Voici la description complĂšte de la bĂȘte (configuration, temps …
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