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Issues with Time Warner Motorola SBG6580

April 24, 2013 in Networking, Tech

After a few days of getting frustrated trying to find out why I could not access my home storage outside of my network, I decided to do a little research. I knew I had setup everything correctly on my router (Cisco E4200), but for some reason the ports weren’t open. Turns out this was because of the initial TW modem setup by their tech. Basically I just need this to be a “dumb” modem and not a modem/router. So following these steps I was able to accomplish that. Unplug coaxial […]

Tags: Motorola SBG6580, SBG 6580, SBG6580, Time Warner, Time Warner Modem, Time Warner NATP
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Mobile vSphere Lab – Creating Private Network

March 15, 2013 in Networking, Virtualization

Before we start deploying VMs from the template we created, I want to go through setting up a private network as I do not want these VMs to have access to my home network. Basically you have three options for creating your network. I know you have more than that, but we aren’t going to go into the advanced networking configurations in this post. NAT In this configuration the host will act as a router that hides the virtual machine behind it. The VM will have access to the network […]

Tags: creating virtual network, home lab, Virtual Network Editior, VMware Workstation 9, VMware Workstation 9 home lab, vsphere home lab
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How to configure the SonicWALL LAN / X0 Interface with Static IP address

March 7, 2013 in Networking

I was recently given a SonicWALL NSA 220, so I figured I would post some on the initial setup and configurations. The first one will be assigning a static IP to the NSA 220. At this time I have already went through the out of the box setup but after this I plan on resetting the unit and recording that OOB setup too. Setting Static IP 1. Login to the SonicWALL Management Interface. (If you are configuring the SonicWALL for the first time, the default Lan IP is http://192.168.168.168) […]

Tags: NSA 220W, SonicWALL, SonicWALL configuration, SonicWALL NSA
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Building Out A VMware Home Lab

February 25, 2013 in Networking, Storage, Tech, Virtualization

Sounds exciting right! Well a while back I wrote how I was going to build out a view environment in the Dell TechCenter lab. Due to some circumstances out of my control that idea passed and I have not been able to covert the dream into reality. Hence I have turned my attention to building out a “Mobile Lab” that will allow me to learn more about the products/technology themselves and also be able to take it to any events that I may attend. I will be posting some updates […]

Tags: computer, dell precision, home lab, lab, mobile lab, mobile workstation, ssd drives, technology, test lab, view test lab, VMware view, VMware Workstation 9, VMware Workstation 9 home lab, VMware Workstation 9 test lab, vsphere home lab, workstation 9
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Quick How-to: Configure iSCSI on a Force10 S55 Switch

September 24, 2012 in Networking, Tech

I originally posted this on DellTechCenter.com, but thought it would be a good fit here too! This blog will show the basic initial steps to configure your Force10 S55 for use with iSCSI. Start by configuring the management port of the S55. Force10#config Force10#interface managementethernet 0/0 Force10(conf-if-ma-0/0)#ip address A.B.C.D /24 Next configure the username/password. Force10(conf)#username admin privilege 15 password 0 password Force10(conf)#enable password level 15 0 password Now configure the gigabit ports Force10(conf)#interface range gig 0/0 – 47 Force10(conf-if-range-gi-0/0-47)#mtu 9216 Force10(conf-if-range-gi-0/0-47)#no shutdown Force10(conf-if-range-gi-0/0-47)#switchport Force10(conf-if-range-gi-0/0-47)#spanning-tree rstp edge-port Force10(conf-if-range-gi-0/0-47)#flowcontrol rx on tx […]

Tags: configure, Dell Networking, Force10, force10 s55, how-to, iSCSI, Networking, S55
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PowerConnect iSCSI Optimization

August 6, 2012 in Networking, Storage

One of the questions I see a lot is how to configure our PowerConnect switches for iSCSI optimization. First let’s talk a little about what this actually does within the switch itself. iSCSI optimization provides the following features: Ability to assign a specific QoS profile to the iSCSI flows Display of iSCSI session details (connections, initiator, target, and so on) Identification of (self-discovered) iSCSI sessions Identification of iSCSI session termination Identification of non-active iSCSI sessions Another cool feature of this is it will auto detect EqualLogic arrays automatically reconfigure the […]

Tags: enterprise-it, EQL, EqualLogic, iSCSI, iSCSI Optimization, Networking, portfast, PowerConnect, spanning tree
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PowerConnect iSCSI Optimization

August 6, 2012 in Networking, Storage

Tags: enterprise-it, EQL, EqualLogic, iSCSI, iSCSI Optimization, Networking, portfast, PowerConnect, spanning tree
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May The Force10 Be With You

June 4, 2012 in Networking

So it looks like I finally got my new Force10 S55 switches in for the Dell TechCenter lab. These are the first two of the many Force10 products we are going to introduce to TechCenter racks! Now I just need to start creating content around them. I have a short list of things I want to create like: FTOS Introduction Initial Config Stacking Spanning Tree VLAN Is there a particular feature/configuration you would like to see a demo on? Leave a comment and Ill see if I can get it added […]

Tags: dell, Dell Force10, enterprise-it, Force10, Networking, S55, spanning tree, vlan
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