Mac Time Machine over SMB Windows Share

I've just bought myself a MacBook Pro last weekend. My very first Mac.
Having invested into Windows Home Server I chose to make it supports Time Machine.
That's ~$300 and network reconfig time saved from buying Time Capsule.
This is on MacOS 10.6.4

Configuration Steps:
- Create a dedicated share in WHS if you'd like it separated
- Type below command in MacOS Terminal. TM won't see smb share without this
defaults write com.apple.systempreferences TMShowUnsupportedNetworkVolumes 1

Then follow this steps to prepare Time Machine sparse disk image
http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=184462
Credit goes to thread owner

- Make sure your share is accessible and open by opening that share in Finder
- Configure Time Machine. The backup share should show up and selectable

Setting Static IP Address in OpenSolaris

Follow steps from this blog:
http://malsserver.blogspot.com/2008/08/setting-up-static-network-configuration.html

Tested with fresh install of 2009.09

RDM on Local SATA Disk in ESXi4

RDM with local SATA disk is now working in ESXi with following steps:

- locate your target RDM disk using 'fdisk -l' or 'ls /vmfs/devices/disks'
- create .vmdk RDM file using 'vmkfstools -r /vmfs/devices/disks/... .vmdk'
- add above .vmdk RDM file to VM as existing disk

My main reason for doing this is to bypass VMFS to utilize benefit of Windows Home Server: disk is readable by standard windows machine.

LSI Driver for Windows Home Server on ESX

If WHS installer cannot detect virtual disk and complains about no hard drive to install:

- get LSI20320-R SCSI Driver for Windows 2003 Server from http://www.lsi.com/
- copy driver files to floppy image; I use existing VM on ESX to create a new image and copy
- mount the floppy image to WHS and select the scsi driver

Mount NTFS partitions in solaris

Ritwik's blog: Mount NTFS partitions in solaris

http://www.iiitmk.ac.in/wiki/index.php/How_to_Mount/Unmount_NTFS,FAT32,ext3_Partitions_in_Opensolaris_5.11_snv_101b

Configuring the OpenSolaris CIFS Server in Workgroup Mode : As Good A Place As Any

Configuring the OpenSolaris CIFS Server in Workgroup Mode

Adjusting permission on unix folder e.g. 'chmod 1777' also effect shares - nice!

Install Adaptec Storage Manager on ESX4/vSphere

http://ask.adaptec.com/scripts/adaptec_tic.cfg/php.exe/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=15362

- ASM 32 bit installs, will run after rpm install
- Need Windows GUI client to connect