Minicom is the hyperterminal for Linux. Minicom is by default not installed. Install Minicom with the following command sudo apt-get install minicom Find your serial port dmesg | grep tty $ dmesg | grep tty [    0.001251] console [tty0] enabled [   72.953237] usb 6-1: pl2303 converter now attached to ttyUSB0 I use a USB serial port, my laptop doesn’t have a build in serial port. So the name of the serial port is...

Previously I posted a blog about completely resetting a Foundry ServerIron XL But what if you only want to reset the password? This is how it works.. Connect with a serial cable to the Foundry ServerIron XL. 1) Unplug the Switch 2) Plug the switch back in, and be immediately ready to: 3) Hit b within 2 seconds, to enter into the boot monitor 4) Type: no password boot system flash primary 5) Foundry will boot up, now FastIron> enable No...

I found a great article named A “Multivendor Post” to help our mutual iSCSI customers using VMware You really should read it if your using a SAN in combination with ESX...

I’m using serveral ESX 3.5 U5  connected to 2 HP ProCurve 3500yl. When I monitor my Equallogic SAN with SAN Headquarters 2.0 there are a lot of TCP Retransmits. Sometimes more than 3%. After some troubleshooting I discovered the TCP Retransmits are caused by the ESX Nic Teaming connected to the HP ProCurve switches. Every ESX server has 2 NICs connected to the iSCSI for VMFS and iSCSI Initiators from the VM’s. Both NICs are...

I needed to reset a Foundry Server Iron XL back to factory defaults, and surprisingly couldn’t find the instructions via my buddy google. Foundry is really stingy with with support documents, and knowledge portal acccess, and unless you have a valid support contract, you can’t find ANYTHING. Luckily I do, so I figured I’d share this knowledge for the sake of future googlers. First, remove the password: 1) Unplug the Switch 2)...