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Reset Equallogic to Default Settings

While its fresh on / in my mind I will share with you. It was time to reset my Dell, Equallogic Storage Array. I am in the middle of troubleshooting some issues and its for the best. The steps are simple so I will just put them out here. Sorry no frills. To reset the Dell, Equallogic Storage […]

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Dirty Cache – Dell, Equallogic Storage Array

Dirty Cache – Dell, Equallogic Storage Array I hope you never encounter such an issue, but if you found yourself searching for a method to get online you’re in luck. Symptoms: Equallogic Storage Array  no longer responds to pings iSCSI attached volumes have all gone offline Unable to access the Equallogic Storage Array using SAN HQ […]

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Using built in Windows tool to secure wipe free disk space

So your working and had to make a backup copy of the CEO’s outlook data file onto your local computer. After your work on his or her mailbox, you delete the backup.  So you think!  We know this isn’t the true and with the many free and paid tools out today a person would attempt […]

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Openfiler – case of the missing storage

Today I was doing some cleanup on one of my Openfiler SAN Servers, in an attempt to recover unused disk space when I encounter an odd issue of the storage not being reclaimed. After waiting sometime I decided to investigate this problem. Opening putty, I SSH’ed into the server and was able to see that […]

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Quick ESXi iSCSI configuration

Here is a quick walkthrough on connecting your ESXi host to an iSCSI target. [Start Now] Connecting to our ESXi server with the vSphere client is go into the configuration tab then storage adapters. Now we need to enable the iSCSI software adapter and click configure. After enabling the software adapter we need to point […]

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Command of the day: shred

The shred command can be used for destroy files so that their contents are very difficult or even impossible to recover. The shred command accomplishes its destruction by repeatedly overwriting files with data patters designed to do maximum damage. Even the use of high-sensitivity data recovery methods and equipment make it difficult to recover files […]