Blades

Work has been busy busy busy. Today was my Unix day. The morning was spent examining the possibility of hooking up an old tape libary to the server to use on the test sytem, but it proved not to work. The afternoon was spent putting a loaned JS21 Power6 blade and suitable management module into a spare Bladecenter (just like the one above) and see if it would work. It did, but the blade had been configured in a different Bladecenter with internal disks and kept hanging trying to see devices that weren't there. Still, it was a start. It was interesting as I've never had much to do with the blade servers before as normally they are populated with normal Intel machines. They are incredibly loud things, due to the vast amounts of airflow needed to keep 14 servers packed into a relatively tiny space running at a tolerable temperature.

The evening was spent round at Rob and Em's before going to badminton. It was OK but that ghastly woman was there again making things miserable again. It's just no fun to play with her at all, whether you're on her side or not.