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My brother-in-law David manages a mid-sized construction business, and owns seven or eight servers to handle the data. But don't bother asking him how much data they hold, or what processors they use. In fact, it's pointless to ask anyone in his...

Learn how to capture all of a c7000 enclosure and server blade configuration settings. Get things like firmware revisions, switch settings, similar to what the hpux script “sysinfo” would collect. ...

On the blade team, we call it the '3AM rule': Make it so simple to manage that a blurry-eyed administrator can set it up in 15 minutes or less and troubleshoot and fix a problem, even at 3:00 in the morning. This was the guiding principle behind that bright, shiny LCD screen you see on every BladeSystem enclosure. In this video, we asked Monty McGraw, one of our lead engineers to explain why we added this practical and useful feature to the Onboard Administrator. ...

We're starting a new series on the blade blog called 'Blade Hacks'. For our first post, I wanted to focus on the command line interface of the Onboard Administrator. A lot of people love its simplicity of the GUI, but our real power users love the amount of control it puts at their fingertips via the CLI. Now you can get the secrets of the experts. ...