For those to young to remember, in readership days that is, or missed them the 1st time, they were about the sometimes Microsoft FUD that existed, sometimes Google or sometimes just bad business choices and how to fight them or work against them or with them in some cases. Google Fudbuster Friday sometime you might like what you find.
When last I left off it was august 2009 and I had posted one every Friday for a year, holidays, vacations, sickness and health. But I got tired of writing a weekly column and wanted a vacation from it.
Why start it again now?
Almost 2 years ago and in that time MUCH has changed. Some for the better, some not. Social Media is much more powerful than before, as an evolution of messaging, and the product range from IBM and others which is available today brings amazing opportunities for businesses.
I have changed, my business has changed, your decisions have changed. It is no longer as important which product you use per se, but how you will choose to use them.
Free is not for you in the corporate world.
You get what you pay for has never meant as much as it does now.
Your employees will not work for free, neither should you expect your business to run itself for free. Everything has a price. Everything.
See you Friday morning.
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Friday, June 3, 2011
Thursday, June 2, 2011
Sametime Media Manager Needs a Dedicated NIC
This may seem obvious to many, but the truth is customers don't always think about this one.
Sametime 8.5.1 installation, 8.5.2 is out now, at a client site.
They used 3 VM partitions and separated everything accordingly.
One problem. Audio was horribly inconsistent. Recorded sessions were impossible to understand.
What was wrong? First guess was the best guess, hardware.
If everything works properly, and it seems to be the case, then what is the hardware story.
As it turns out the VM had dual cores and 4GB RAM. More than enough for the test environment and depending on usage even for production.
What it also had was 1, yes 1 NIC for about 4 servers. Even at 1GB NICs that isn't very fair is it?
My friend Wes, he gave some great sessions at Lotusphere 2011 about my favorite subject, troubleshooting, knows a few things about Sametime. Wes suggested we try to get a separate NIC.
Luckily we could. Once all the VMs had been adjusted, cables swapped and all we tested and sure enough all was good for UAT (user acceptance testing).
More to come as we tweak their setup. They did a great job putting it all together. We have some more fun coming with them soon and maybe some more pieces of interest will emerge.
Sametime 8.5.1 installation, 8.5.2 is out now, at a client site.
They used 3 VM partitions and separated everything accordingly.
One problem. Audio was horribly inconsistent. Recorded sessions were impossible to understand.
What was wrong? First guess was the best guess, hardware.
If everything works properly, and it seems to be the case, then what is the hardware story.
As it turns out the VM had dual cores and 4GB RAM. More than enough for the test environment and depending on usage even for production.
What it also had was 1, yes 1 NIC for about 4 servers. Even at 1GB NICs that isn't very fair is it?
My friend Wes, he gave some great sessions at Lotusphere 2011 about my favorite subject, troubleshooting, knows a few things about Sametime. Wes suggested we try to get a separate NIC.
Luckily we could. Once all the VMs had been adjusted, cables swapped and all we tested and sure enough all was good for UAT (user acceptance testing).
More to come as we tweak their setup. They did a great job putting it all together. We have some more fun coming with them soon and maybe some more pieces of interest will emerge.
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