• I usually shy away from vendor battles as the technology should speak for itself but sometimes the FUD from vendors can be a bit much. Jamie Doherty at the Bits and Bytes blog takes down a recent HP video for OneView. Vendors shouldn’t purposefully misuse competitors products in a video on the Internet, it isn’t really a good look.

 

 

  • I’ve recently updated to Windows 8.1 at work and found (like every other upgrade) that a Windows.old was left behind. As I’m on a client OS I can use the Disk Cleanup tool but if that is unavailable Jeffery Hicks swoops in with some PowerShell to save the day. He has also performed upgrades on server OSes, a braver man than I.

 

  • HP have released new versions for Virtual Connect and Onboard Administrator. Julian Wood has the lowdown. IPv6 support sure is welcome (this is 2013, it should have been added much sooner!) but you may want to watch out for the bug with Emulex adapters and full hight blades, see HP CA c03600027 (I don’t think HP know what a small URL looks like) for more details on that one.