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Infiniband cluster Part 2

Configuring the Network Intro: Welcome to part 2 of the series. We will cover sett ing up 3 vlans for the tcp/ip network and then we will ensure all the packages for infiniband are installed.

Infiniband cluster Part 1

Overview and installing the operating system Intro: To facilitate testing of our software and so that support can model possible customer environments I was tasked with setting up a cluster with infiniband. I was excited as the system was a Dell PowerEdge blade cluster (our 1st blade system) and we have never used or deployed …
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SCCM Get Dell warranty info

2011-07-11: This method is now deprecated please go here: http://ninet.org/2011/07/dell-hp-warranty-info-in-sccm LAST UPDATED: 2010-09-22 UPDATE 2010-09014: Dell have changed the layout to add an extra field in the contracts section so the scripts are broken Version 2: work around for computer account that can’t access the internet http://ninet.org/2010/03/sccm-get-dell-warranty-info-v2/ I found a script and mof edit here: Sherry …
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Dell Scraper

A quick python script to take a list of dell service tags and output the system info as a csv file in the format “tag, shipdate, SysType, Ram, HDD, Support”.

Site revamp

“Out with the old and in with the new”, some details on the site revamp