Once I got the OpenSolaris installation kicked I faced another problem. The computer has 3 x 1.5TB and 1 x 2TB disks installed. This is suboptimal when configuring a RAID volume but I thought that I could cheat here. The cheat consists of slicing the 2TB disk in a 1.5TB slice and using the remaining [...]

After all my failures trying to get this HP computer to work, I decided that perhaps OpenSolaris was the solution. And it turned out I was right. OpenSolaris x86 LiveCD uses a 64-bit kernel by default. The tricky part was to get the driver loaded before starting the OpenSolaris installation. And to my fortune, I [...]

And now it is the time to try Solaris 10 on this HP machine. The first thing to take into account is that the HP SmartArray P212 controller requires a closed-source binary from HP that is not distributed in the Solaris media. The cpqary3 driver can be downloaded from the HP Web site, although it [...]

On this second post I want to talk about the interaction problems I experienced with the HP SmartArray P212 controller in this computer. The HP SmartArray P212 controller is certified for VMware ESXi 4.0 and Solaris 10. Initially I thought that using VMware would be useful to me in order to play with Solaris and [...]

Recently I bought an HP Proliant DL180 G6 from Digitec. The machine looked wonderful on the paper and looks perfect for running VMware ESXi and Solaris. Unfortunately I had some relatively bad experiences with it.
The first minor problem I’ll talk about in this post is related to the drive trays. The machine comes with no [...]

I typically don’t quote opinion-like articles like this, but in this case, I think it’s worth it. To keep it short, Linus thinks that people complaining because Microsoft wrote drivers for their own virtualization platform are hypocritical. And I have to agree with him:
Linus: “Microsoft Hatred Is a Disease”.

I learnt today that HP Proliant DL180 G6 blade servers come by default with no disks installed. So far so good as this is clearly advertised. But what is shocking to me is that the trays in this 4-drive machine are just mere plastic, useless pieces that can’t be used at all. These plastic trays [...]

While trying to use Chromium on a Ubuntu 64-bit machine, I discovered I wasn’t able to browse to any web page. I always got the following error message:

This webpage is not available.
The webpage at http://www.google.com/ might be temporarily down or it may have moved permanently to a new web address.
Here are some suggestions:
Reload this web [...]