POC with 3par

Whoohoo

The storage team here is going to have a proof of concept with 3par storage.
That's going to be very interesting.
They asked me if i wanted to join the "testteam" from esx perspective's. Were in the middle of the migration to vsphere but the test's are going to be mainly on the "old 3.5 environment".
If there is time the testing will also take place at the new environment with the mpio settings in place. Iometer is going to be the "measurement tool". Also software developers created a build environment to test with. This all will take place in Januari. Preparing and writing!

its christmas(olmost) :D

mistake's

After i didn't do my exam because of the misplanning i had another issue when installing the new environment. Yea having a great day :D

After installing the new host's i connected the second nic to the service console. Because of this i lost my connection to the host.

Login to the console(local physical machine).

List the nics that are in use by the service console
esxcfg-vswitch -l to list the nic's
Specify the nic you wan't to remove.

esxcfg-vswitch --unlink=vmnic0 vSwitch0
After this vmnic0 is removed from the vswitch and you can connect again to the host with the vi client.

Maybe there is a quicker solution but this worked for me.

Find the password on the host.

Stealing host password's.
The tool used for password recovery is explained on
http://www.ntpro.nl/blog/archives/1269-Cool-Password-Recovery-Tool.html.

Here is it in action.

Vmware User Group meeting Belgium

Today i received the invitation to visit the FREE vmware user group meeting in belgium.
Last time the location was Superb. So this one's im going to visit and evaluate the location ;) and of course the subject's below are also interesting.

Driving Directions and location info : The Bowling Stones : Wemmel - Steenweg op Brussel 397 - 1780 Wemmel (Brussel)

The agenda of this meeting: (subject to change)

13u15: Welcome (Reinoud Reynders - UZLeuven)
13u20: VMWorld Summary (Nicolas van Wijnsberghe - VMware)
14u00 Installation and Configuration ESX Vsphere - best practices (Gabrie - http://www.gabesvirtualworld.com/)
14u45: Break offered by Symantec
15u00 : Protection in a virtual environment (Paul Murgatroyd & Kim Apers - Symantec)
15u30: Upgrade your environment (Jan Tiri - VMWare)
16u15: Microsoft Licensing in a VDI environment (Patrick Viaene-Microsoft)
17u00: Vmug Drink offered by Symantec
To attend this FREE meeting you need to be logged in first (if you are not a member yet, please do so. It's free!)
http://www.vmug.be

Once logged in you'll see a question above 'I will attend'. Then you'll thick yes or no.

road

I didn't had the chance to make picture's at the cdg meeting since my battery died.. But overal is was interesting and fun.

Last month's were like a rollercoaster, preparing for my last mcse exam, learning about Best practises/powershell/vranger/esx environment/ iscsi/ in general troubleshooting esx.
Next goal is getting my vcp exam this is planned for 24 november at 9:00.
Im a little afraid for it because everyone's telling me this one's difficult. But with the help of Simon Long and the books i have, it should be go well^^.

In general the people i speak about virtualisation are openminded people i like that.

CDG Technical Update Event

Today's planning going to visit CDG Roermond (Limburg) to hear:

* VMworld update
* RES Software en VMware View
* Citrix reduces traffic jams on the roads to and from our Dynamic Delivery Center

Ill make some photo's and publish them later.

Vmware highlights Day 0

Vmware logo changed ! They removed the boxes from the logo!
And they presented VMware GO product.

Building the datacenter vmworld 2009

I like this kinda movies :)

Some specs
machines 2 cpu's 8 cores 48GB ram per server
total server 37TB ram
storage 348 TB
virtual machine's 37.248 O-o

Past my exam!

Finally got my mcse status. After alot of study hour's i don't know how may i passed my finaly exam today 70-298 892 points!.
It is a design exam and i found this one the hardest. Even 70-291 was not this hard. Atleast in my opinion.
Now my focus is going to be on vmware. Had my training now going to study for the vcp3 exam. Simon Long gave me some tips for study'ing this exam.
I know it's going to be a hard one but if you like the environment the knowledge's come's by itself.(or something like that).

i can call myself mcse certified \o/

vmware workstation

There is some interesting in the releasenotes of 6.5.3
*
Link to releasenote's
Workstation has been updated to power on the latest Microsoft Virtual PC files (.vhd). VMware recommends that you create a copy or linked clone of the image. If you do not create a copy, you cannot run the original virtual machine in VPC after running it in Workstation, because the virtual hardware layer has been modified.

So if im correct the vhd file's will be running without modding it?

Paths To VCP on vSphere 4 Certification

Paths To VCP on vSphere 4 Certification.

vmetc posted this a while ago. A nice flowchart for becoming vcp4.

vmetc article

queuedepth

Well im still struggeling with the performance of the esx environment.
Duncan had written a nice post about queuedepth.
queuedepth-and-whats-next

Have to dive in it to check with the storage department.

registrated new domain vmred.nl

vmred.nl is now live!
Much easier to find (i you want).
I was keep forgetting my old one.

Uninstalling vranger pro 4.0DPP

Uninstalling vranger pro 4.0DPP

Today I had problems with uninstalling vranger pro 4.0Dpp.

Was getting the error.

Vranger Pro Service couldn't be stopped. – Reason: The service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely fashion.





A quick solve is to stop the vranger pro services (start run services.msc) and them uninstall it again.

Demo video's vsphere from Mike laverick

Mike Laverick created a lot's of demo material for vmworld.

Unfortunately i'm not going. Even with the link to the letter Which Eric Siebert provided me i could't go;) link to letter

For people that aren't going but still want's the information check
http://www.rtfm-ed.co.uk

More input i love it ! did i mention i love the internet? :D

Sysprep file locations and versions vmware

Running sysprep without files can be hard ;) Vmware has a kb about this which is very handy. All the information is in one place. See link at the bodem.

Description:

Symptoms
When attempting to customize the deployment of a virtual machine the radio buttons are disabled (greyed out).
When a virtual machine (VM) is deployed from a Template, you find that the SID is always the same, despite the fact thatyou chose the option to generate a new SID during Template deployment and guest operating system customization.
When attempting to create a new virtual machine from a Template in ESX v3.5 you receive the following error message:

Warning: Windows customization resources were not found on this server
Message in the guestcust.log:
deploy doesn't contain known sysprep files

Link to Knowledge base

Vmug.be 19 june

Last week there was a nice vmug event in belgium. They couldt pick a better place then PALM. I loved the presentations and had a chance to speak to some people. But wow who made the A12(road) in belgium! Bad design! ;)

The presentations are online

•8th meeting on 19 June 2009 - Palm -
download vSp presentation
download Command Central presentation
download backup consistency presentation
view Powershell in a Nutshell Presentation)

http://www.vmug.be/vmug/fullpage.cfm?id=3

Vmware library

A collegea of me had a usefull tip. The online library of vmware.

With a nice little search function ! :)

http://pubs.vmware.com/vi35u2/wwhelp/wwhimpl/js/html/wwhelp.htm

And alot of console commands
http://www.b2v.co.uk/b2vguide2vmware3.htm

Vcenter

Mike Laverick's post on the build numbers helped me fighting the numbers !

http://www.rtfm-ed.co.uk/?cat=3

ESX 3.5 U4 - 153875
ESX 3.5 U3 - 123630
ESX 3.5 U2 - 110268
ESX 3.5 U1 - 82663

vCenter 2.5 U4 - 147633
vCenter 2.5 U3 - ?????????
vCenter 2.5 U2 - 104263
vCenter 2.5 U1 - 84767

Disable screensaver on vmware machines

http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=9275881

* Screen savers are not necessary for virtual machines
* Running screen savers wastes CPU resources
* There is no interface option to disable the screen saver on the log on screen in Windows



To disable Windows Logon Screen Saver:
Click Start > Run, type regedit, click OK.
Locate the following registry key:

HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Desktop


Double-click the ScreenSaveActive string value item in the Details pane.
In the Value data box, replace the number 1 with the number 0 , and then click OK.
Alternatively, you can save the attached registry file and double click it. The key above is set for you (Windows 2000 and 2003 only).

For more information, see Microsoft KB article http://support.microsoft.com/kb/185348 .
Note: The preceding link was correct as of June 4, 2008. If you find the link is broken, please provide feedback and a VMware employee will update the link.

Vmware perfmon "addin"

Scott Drummonds created the following post on the vmware communities:
They are busy too ! :)


My colleague in product management, Praveen Kannan, has been working to extend Perfmon to show some ESX performance counters. This capability is automatically installed with VMware Tools on vSphere 4. But Praveen and I have made a stand-alone version available to those of you that are still on VI3. Download it here to give it a try.

To install, place the file in an appropriately-named directory on any Windows VM on VI3. Double-click the executable, which will self-extract the files into the same directory. Run "install.bat" and you're done.

Once you bring up Perfmon you'll see two new performance objects on your computer: "VM Memory" and "VM Processor". These objects contain counters exposed by ESX that accurately reflect the VM's memory and CPU usage. Here's Perfmon on my test VM after I've installed the tool.

Disclaimer:
This is a pre-release "sneak peak" version. Eventually this tool will be available for download on vmware.com and supported by VMware. But today there is no support for this tool and you're using it "as-is". Use at your own risk and do not contact VMware support for help with this release.


The post:
http://communities.vmware.com/blogs/drummonds/2009/06/18/using-perfmon-for-accurate-esx-performance-counters
The tool:
http://ftpsite.vmware.com/download/vmStatsProvider/vmStatsProvider_006_release.exe

vsphere-land

2 much to read :) but its wonderfull info!

http://vlp.vsphere-land.com/

Snippy screen capture software

Founded snippy today. a nice small screen capture tool.

Snippy !
http://www.bhelpuri.net/Snippy/SnippyDownload.htm

Handy vmware console commands

Handy commands
http://www.b2v.co.uk/b2vguide2vmware3.htm

WMI ADAP was unable to load the ASP.NET performance library because it returned invalid data: 0x0

I was getting a error/warning in my eventviewer.

WMI ADAP was unable to load the ASP.NET performance library because it returned invalid data: 0x0

Resolve this by:

To prevent the performance counter library (Perflib) from checking counters, you can disable the Extensible Performance Counters library or remove it. Use one of the following methods to do this:• To use the Extensible Counter tool (ExCtrlLst.exe) to disable the Perfctrs.dll performance counters, follow these steps:1. Start the Exctrlst.exe tool. This tool is in the Microsoft Windows 2000 Resource Kit.
2. Select the DLL (Perfctrs.dll) that did not open in the Extensible Performance Counters list box.
3. Click to clear the Performance Counters Enabled check box.
4. Restart the computer.

Version of sysprep

ICT-freak has a great post about the sysprep version. Which one to use on vcenter server.

See

http://ict-freak.nl/2009/05/12/vmware-determining-the-correct-version-of-sysprep-to-use/

Add role to user

In my quest to learn vmware:
Adding permissions to a user.


Use the VI Client to connect to the ESX server.
Select the Server in the left pane, and then click on the Users & Groups tab in the right pane.

Create User:
Click on the Users button
Right Click and Select Add
Specify the desired User Name, Password, etc and Click OK

Create a Local Group
Click on the Groups button
Right click and select Add
Enter the group name you want and enter the User Name you created above in the User Name field and click Add
Click OK to create the group

Assign Permissions
Click on the Permissions Tab
Right Click and Select Add Permission
Click on the Add button and select the Group you created above and click on the Add button.
Click on the OK button.
Make sure the Assigned Role is set to Read-Only and click OK.


The information was from this thread. Thanks bflynn0!~
http://communities.vmware.com/thread/101775

Buslogic to Lsi

Why this is necessary
Vmware recommended setting is to use the LSI driver instead of the Buslogic driver. The purpose of this document is to increase the performance of the virtual machine by changing the SCSI adapter from Buslogic to LSIlogic.

1.2 How to
Make sure the machine’s harddisk is on persistent.
Browse to the datastore.
Download the vmx file to your desktop.
Always keep a backup of the vmx file. So make a extra copy of it.

We are manually installing an extra scsi LSI controller in the vmx file.

Open the vmx file in Notepad ++ make sure it is working in unix format. Because it could happen that the vmx file is wrongly read by esx if it is in windows format.
Find the entry in the vmx file.
scsi0.present = "true"
scsi0.virtualDev = "buslogic"
If it does not exist’s create the entry.

Now we are going to add the new lsi scsi adapter.
Add the line behind the scsi0.
scsi1.present = "true"
scsi1.virtualDev = "lsilogic"



Save the vmx file.
And upload it to the datastore.

Boot the machine and see that u have 2 scsi controllers!


one lsi and one buslogic.
Login to the machine and check device manager.



If the driver is not automaticly installed (click search )
Then download the driver from www.lsilogic.com search for LSI20320 (windows xp x86 32bit)
Do not install the latest driver (as written1.28) but download WHQL 1.20.18.00 MID 1005239 Initiator/Target bios/fw and Microsoft Certified driver.

Once installed shutdown the virtual machine.
Download the vmx file.
Edit vmx file.
Remove the 2 entries
scsi1.present = "true"
scsi1.virtualDev = "lsilogic"
Save the vmx file
Upload it to the correct datastore.
Change the scsi driver from buslogic to lsilogic.
Boot the machine and you will have a much better performance

Virtual Machine VMware Converter 4 Standalone.

Virtual Machine VMware Converter 4 Standalone.

http://www.vmware.com/download/converter/

Ran into scripts

In searching for the script.
Scripts from several person's

http://www.virtual-strategy.com/Eric-Siebert-s-Top-10/Top-10-PowerShell-scripts-that-VMware-administrators-should-use.html

Quick Migration
A script from Mike DePetrillo that duplicates the Quick Migration of HyperV in a VMware environment by suspending a running VM and moving it to another ESX host server.

Report into MS Word
A script from Alan Renouf that provides a report in Microsoft Word of the virtual machines in your environment with graphs and pie charts.

Dynamic Resource Pool Calculator
A script from Eric Sloof that recalculates all of your resource pools and can automatically increase memory and CPU reservations. It can be run interactively using a GUI or through a command line with arguments.

VMware Infrastructure Power Documenter
A script from Antonio Zamora that produces many different detailed reports about your VMware environment in Open XML format.

ESX Automated Configuration Midwife
A script from Lance Berc that adds a new ESX host to VirtualCenter and configures networking, storage, VMotion and a few other things.

VMware Health Check script
A script that produces a report of your VMware environment including information on snapshots, datastores, VMware tools versions, mapped CD-ROM drives and more.

Track Datastore Free Space
A script from Hugo Peeters that produce reports that track free space on your datastores so you can see how it changes over time.

List disk RDMS
A script that lists any Raw Device Mappings (RDMs) that exist in your environment which is helpful as RDM’s are not listed in the datastore list of ESX servers.

Find snapshots and send email to user/users with
A script from Chris Uys that emails a report of snapshots that are running in your VMware environment.

Setting Video Hardware Acceleration Level
A script from Hugo Peeters that sets the video hardware acceleration level inside Windows VMs to Full so they perform properly in a VMware environment.

LSI powershell script

Im trying to find a lsi powershell script to add a lsi scsi device to +/- 40 machines..

Vmware products voming in 2009

List taken from Eric sloof's blog ntpro.nl.
Updoming products.

• VMware Fault Tolerance
• VMware VMSafe
• VMware vNetwork Distributed Switch
• VMware vShield Zones
• VMware vCenter CapacityIQ
• VMware vCenter Data Recovery
• VMware vCenter ConfigControl
• VMware vCenter Orchestrator
• VMware vCenter Chargeback
• VMware vCenter AppSpeed

interesting post

http://communities.vmware.com/thread/200333

Free windows tools in one "app"

Desktop Central provides a set of free Windows tools that Windows Administrators might require on a day-to-day basis

Remote Task Manager Wake On LAN Software Inventory
Remote Command Prompt GPO Update Shutdown/Restart
Join/Unjoin Computer Currently Logged On User Hard Disk Space Monitor
Local User/Group List Network Share Browser

Download it ! it works like a charm.
http://www.manageengine.com/products/free-windows-tools/free-windows-tools.html

Eureka moment? Expart

Ok im new in the esx enviroment.... Im still learning... and i love it !
Im controlling the desktop site of a small esx env (5 esx servers +/- 120clients)
40 clients are development machines .. disk's are non-persistent... and this is causing much troubles... updating etc etc


Expart!Founded on forum and it worked like a charm :)

http://ict-freak.nl/2008/10/10/vmware-extend-the-os-disk-the-easy-way-extpartexe/

M$ touchwall

http://www.officelabs.com/projects/touchwall/Pages/default.aspx

I like the wall thingy !

Vmworld keynotes!

http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2009/03/01/vmworld-2009-europe-linkage/

change mac on local vm to a static one

If you want to change the mac address on a local vm machine to a static one.
Change the following entries in the vmx file

ethernet0.generatedAddress = "your mac"
Ethernet1.addressType = "generated"
To
ethernet0.Address = "00:etcetc"
ethernet0.addressType = "static"


This is already widely spread but hey more is better ;)

Buslogic to LSI on esx

Ok its written all over the internet but im gonna do it again :)

We have some machines on our esx env. that are still on buslogic configuration. We want to change this to LSI (recommended config by vm). To have a performance increase.
Enviroment (38 xp machines buslogic non persistent)
Steps to take
Shutdown vm
change diskmode
Download the vmx file
edit vmx file
add lsi scsi
upload the vmx file
boot with 2 scsi adapters
shutdown vm
edit vmx file

Ps dont download the latest version from lsilogic. The 1.28.3.0 does not work correctly in windows xp.
I now used 1.20.18.0 from the lsilogic website. This is working. On the esx server itself the version 1.21.26.0 is installed. Not figured out how to use this in the windows xp installation.

Tweak Vmware image

Im trying to find out to have a overview of the tweaks for a vmware client on the esx server.

There are a number of settings that can be done but i cannot find a good overview.
Founded some documentation on it.

http://download3.vmware.com/vmworld/2006/med9518.pdf

http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=
displayKC&externalId=9275881
Open Regedit
HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Desktop
Change the value of “ScreenSaveActive” to 0.

Disable
Indexing services on the machine's

Disable updates of the last access time attribute for your NTFS filesystem, especially for i/o intensive vm’s this is a real boost:
Open CMD
fsutil behavior set disablelastaccess 1

Disable all visual effects:
Properties on your desktop
Appearance -> Effects
Disable all options.

Find a certian directory on a machine.

We were facing a problem on the systems that a certain software package was not installed on the machine. We could only find the "bad install's" by looking on the machine for a directory that didnt exist's.

The Query is looking in the add remove programs for "Borland CaliberRM 2006" and the bad install's were the host's that didnt have the directory "c:\\program files\\borland\\java"

You can use this query to modify it yourself. Just replace the names.

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------

select distinct SMS_R_System.Name, SMS_G_System_COMPUTER_SYSTEM.UserName, SMS_R_System.ResourceId from SMS_R_System inner join SMS_G_System_SoftwareFile on SMS_G_System_SoftwareFile.ResourceID = SMS_R_System.ResourceId inner join SMS_G_System_COMPUTER_SYSTEM on SMS_G_System_COMPUTER_SYSTEM.ResourceID = SMS_R_System.ResourceId where SMS_R_System.ResourceId in (select SMS_R_System.Resourceid from SMS_R_System inner join SMS_G_System_ADD_REMOVE_PROGRAMS ARP on ARP.ResourceID = SMS_R_System.ResourceId where ARP.DisplayName like "Borland CaliberRM 2006") and SMS_G_System_SoftwareFile.FilePath not like "c:\\program files\\borland\\java" order by SMS_R_System.Name

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------

sms 2003 query's

SMS Making query's.

http://www.faqshop.com/sms/default.htm?http://faqshop.com/sms/queries.htm

This site comes verry handy.. They always say to do not invent the wheel again.:)
Sometimes u just need to find your thinks on the internet.
Still to make a testenviroment at home... dont have the time..excuse;)

Ch3snas streaming xbox360 funplug 0.5 ushare

All i wanted !

Funplug 0.5 working with Ushare!

Credits to Rimblock~!

http://forum.dsmg600.info/viewtopic.php?id=2619&p=1

Install funplug 0.5
http://www.inreto.de/dns323/fun-plug/0.5/
Download the 2 files and put them in the root of your ch3snas,
reboot your nas.
Wait 3 minutes then the funplug will be installed.

Download the ushareverion of rimblock from http://dns323.thecorewithin.net/ to the root of your nas.

Open a telnet session to your ch3snas.
Once your in telnet
cd /mnt/HD_a2/
Then your in your root of your ch2snas

Unpack the downloaded ushare version.
using command
tar -xzvf ushare1.1a-fw1.5-ffp0.5-no_dlna.tgz

open the new directory
cd ushare1.1a-fw1.5-ffp0.5-no_dlna/
and run ./install.sh

the config file(/ffp/etc/ushare.conf) point's to \HD_a2\Share\Media\
If u want to change the location change the config file edit the file in notepad++ .

Reboot the nas and your media is visible on your xbox360 :)

Note that this does not work for the Playstation 3.

Ch3snas xbox360 streaming

okok i was a little to fast with my design... i thought i could hook up my xbox360 to my wlan and stream directly from the nas...
NOT,..... well not in the first place.

There is a workaround founded on this forum.
Finally-enjoy-video-streaming-xbox360

And it works like a charm :D gonna watch WMV kongfu panda!
The plugin is based on Funplug 0.4.


Install fonz's fun_plug 0.4 by downloading funplug-0.4.tar.gz from
Funplug 0.4
Unrar the files(fun_plug and fun_plug.tar) and place these in the root of your Ch2snas.

Reboot the Snas via the webconsole or 5 seconds powerdown on the device itself.
Wait untill its up again. The volume will have an fun_plug.d directory.

Till now only funplug is installed. Now Ushare!

Download
ushare-1.1a-fun-plug.tgz Its listed in the post.

Place the file in the root of the Ch3snas.

Telnet to the Ch3snas.

cd /mnt/HD_a2/

Then run the command

funpkg.sh ushare-1.1a-fun-plug.tgz (ushare-1.1a-fun-plug.tgz which u have placed in the root before)

Restart your Ch3snas.

U can edit the config file in the etc directory

Ch3snas Going to test.

There is a " known" problem of data loss in the ch3cnas.

The words are that u loose data when u connect a new disk in the device.
It ask's to format but it formats the wrong drive accoding to people.

There is some workaround but then u have to shut down the device and put in the new disk.. and thats not what u want when u have a raid1 configuration. :)

Going to test.

Install w2k3 64x on T7400

After 2 hours... we managed to install a w2k3 64x OS on a DELL T7400.

The internal SAS raid was blocking the installation.
Finally we used the W2k3 driver Dell SAS 6/iR Integrated driver of the Poweredge 1950to install the raid controller on the T7400 machine. There are no server drivers on the dell website for the T7400, u will have to download it from the poweredge 1950.
Placed it on a floppy and loaded the driver into windows setup(F6).

CH3SNAS NAS

CH3SNAS tweaks and tricks


http://knowledge.forestblue.nl/ch3snas.html

http://nas-tweaks.net/CH3SNAS:Tutorials

Tweakers topic
http://gathering.tweakers.net/forum/list_messages/1284778/0

Telnet To CH3SNAS explained on
http://wiki.dns323.info/howto:telnet
Funflugs
http://wiki.dns323.info/howto:fun_plug
http://www.inreto.de/dns323/fun-plug/

Home network

This is my network design. Its not really perfect but its ok for now.

the bottleneck is still my wrt94g but hey i can stream my music and vid files :)

Mighty dump truck

Searching and searching... But cant find a good
TONKA mighty dump truck... in the netherlands....

http://www.calhounstreetemporium.com/servlet/Detail?no=112
http://cgi.ebay.com/Vintage-1969-Tonka-Diesel-Pressed-Metal-Dump-Truck_W0QQitemZ220328467431QQcmdZViewItem

home network plan

Maybe a usefull thing on my home network plan..

How to set Access Point mode on DD-WRT
In order for this tutorial to work, you need to have the latest v24 Release Candidate 7.
To set it up as repeater do the following:
Do a 30 second reset
Under wireless->basic settings:
Wireless mode: AP
Wireless Network Name (SSID): Your prefer SSID
Wireless Channel: Your prefer channel ( Use channel with less interference from other access point)
Save Settings
Under Wireless > Wireless Security
Physical Interface wl0 enter the necessary settings to connect to the wlan you'd like to repeat (if none, select disabled)
Under Setup->Basic Setup:
Under WAN Connection Type:
Connection Type : Disabled
STP : Disable
Under Router IP:
Local IP address :Set your IP your address to a same subnet of your main router (if your main router IP is 192.168.1.1, set it to same subnet like 192.168.1.2)
Subnet Mask : same as your main router subnet
Gateaway : Your main router IP
DNS : Your main router IP
Under Network address Server Setting (DHCP)
DHCP Type : DHCP Forwarder
DHCP Server : Your main router IP
Time settings : disable
Save Settings
Under Security Tab
Un-check all items in the "Block WAN Request" section
Then disable the SPI firewall
Save Settings
Under Administration Tab
Enter all other necessary information, remember to change your password
Click the Save button
Then click Reboot button

Xbox360 Harddisk flash

Just received my ebay item from canada today.
A broken 20GB harddisk for the Xbox360.

Bought a new 120GB harddisk for it and flashed the harddisk to a xbox360.

So for 50 Euro i got a working 120GB Xbox360 disk.
Okok after i bought the drive there was a price drop from120 Euro to 70 euro for a new one... so the time vs cost... ah well :)

Use Windows Bluetooth Module Dell issue M4300

We have an issue with the bluetooth drivers provided by dell... Random bsod no good connection etc.

You can solve it by using the bluetooth driver from windows as this is standard installed from windows xp sp2 and later. But windows does not recognize all the modules.
Here is how to fix it.

Using the Microsoft Bluetooth Stack
1 Uninstall alle current Bluetooth drivers


Example!: i want to add ebluetooth device called
Dell Bluetooth with vendor USB\Vid_413C&Pid_8140

Edit the %windir%\inf\bth.inf
Add under the section a new device.

;----------------------- Device section - Start -----------------------
[ALPS.NT.5.1]
ALPS Integrated Bluetooth Device= BthUsb, USB\Vid_044e&Pid_3005
Alps Bluetooth USB Adapter= BthUsb, USB\Vid_044e&Pid_3006

Dell Bluetooth with vendor USB\Vid_413C&Pid_8140


Save and exit. And the device will take the standard Bluetooth driver from windows