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With the new version of IIS 7.5; which is included with Windows 2008 R2; the FTP service (new and improved of course) in IIS 7.5, allows for the use of SSL Certificates and SFTP, it also allows the use of the Windows TCP/IP stacks Random port range and a separate customizable range for the FTP Service. Read on to learn how to customize these ranges to allow specific firewall port ranges. read more

In the past we have covered performance tweaks for the Initiator side, Linux OS tweaks, and networking speed tweaks; we have not covered the Target side though, and that is what we will do now. So read on for the details on how to optimize the IET.conf file to optimal performance. read more

During a recent upgrade of the Onboard Administrators for a c7000 chassis I ran into an odd problem. The version of OA that was installed was 2.02 (I know it is very old nearly the first release). I attempted to upgrade from 2.02 to 2.51 without taking any intermittent steps, this large jump cause quite a few issues and problems once the upgrade was complete. read more

We all got up early this morning to make it to the breakfast bar and to the Keynote on time... Hopefully the rumored ECM, Cisco, and VMware announcement. More to come soon... read more