I’ve ran into interesting problem today wile configuring HP SIM. I found out that the network is not stable. So I started troubleshooting by pinging servers and this is what I’ve got.
I have negative pings, which does not make sense. So the first thing that popped to my mind was firmware. After upgrading NIC firmware the problem disappeared.
The server is HP Proliant BL25p G2 and NIC is Broadcom NC737i
Couple months ago I needed to change BIOS setting on all our HP laptops. I wanted to do that remotely because we have many laptops and they are in 5 different locations. After spending some time searching I found very good document from HP.
HP Client Management Interface Technical White Paper (more…)
HP is expanding their Proliant entry level server range with new servers:
HP ProLiant DL180 G5
HP ProLiant DL185 G5
HP ProLiant DL160 G5
HP ProLiant DL165 G5
Also new features added to ProLiant ML110 G5, ML150 G5, ML310 G5 and DL320 G5p
Read more here:
http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/newsroom/press/2008/080114a.html
Here are couple good articles to read before you deploy MOSS
Microsoft
Plan for availability (Office SharePoint Server)
HP
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 on HP ProLiant Servers – Performance Summary
(This document relates to HP hardware, but it is a good guidline what hardware setup could be used in general)
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