Archive for 'Lab' Category

NetApp ONTAP 8.1.1 Simulator

By SuperG - Last updated: Sunday, September 9, 2012

Today we are going to expand the NetApp ONTAP 8.1.1 Simulator to hold the maximum supported Disk sizes. ************************************************************************************************ Part 1 Downloading and basic setup of VM First you need to download the NetApp ONTAP 8.1.1 Simulator from NetApp at http://now.netapp.com/NOW/cgi-bin/simulator. You must have a NOW account to download the Simulator. (Do not ask me […]

Installing the FIM 2010 Server Components

By SuperG - Last updated: Monday, April 23, 2012

The Bulk of the information here was taken from http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff512686.aspx You must use an account with: Local administrator privileges SharePoint administrator on the portal SQL sysadmin. During installation, Setup tries to contact the other components to validate that the service is running. For the contact to function correctly, remote administration must be activated in Windows […]

Pre-setup tasks for FIM

By SuperG - Last updated: Monday, April 23, 2012

The Bulk of the information here was taken from http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff512685.aspx Before you start this make sure your FIM server is setup. Look here for information. Before you install the Microsoft Forefront Identity Manager (FIM) 2010 server there are some tasks that you must do before hand. Create an e-mail-enabled domain service account to run the FIM […]

Hardware and Software Requirements

By SuperG - Last updated: Monday, April 23, 2012

The Bulk of the information here was taken from http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff512684.aspx I will be running all the FIM services from one server so I need to have all the software listed for each service installed. Required Hardware The server or servers that host Microsoft Forefront Identity Manager (FIM) 2010 server components must meet the following minimum hardware […]

Microsoft Storage Server iSCSI

By SuperG - Last updated: Sunday, April 15, 2012

All the information here is taken from this BLOG, the only thing I did was add pictures to make the directions clearer. http://blogs.technet.com/b/josebda/archive/2007/12/18/configuring-the-microsoft-iscsi-software-target.aspx Add iSCSI Targets The first thing to do is add two iSCSI Targets to the Storage Server. To do this, right-click the iSCSI Targets node in the Microsoft iSCSI Software Target MMC […]

Test Network

By SuperG - Last updated: Sunday, April 15, 2012

So I decided to build myself a Virtual test network to play with some new technology we are using at work. The next few posts will be about the building of the test network. The Idea Things I would need. A computer beefy enough to run the Virtual network and enough storage for the virtual […]