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Another nightmare product from HP with broken everything, including broken remote firmware upgrade process.

Dell Latitude 10 Tablet, identified as ST2 Late-2012 by Dell, really sucks. It's shipped with very first Win 8.0 build and after two years of updates it's barely usable with Win 8.1 + all available updates and fixes. I wanted to give Windows 10 try on it as already being worst tablet ever it can hardly get any worse, right? Reinstalling Win 8.1 goes exactly like Win 10 so below applies to both.

Adding LSI RAID controller status to VI client and connecting to ESX using MSM (Megaraid Storage Manager) running on Windows.

Wanted run fresh nginx version with Google Pagespeed on Ubuntu 14.04.

Ubuntu provides only Cacti 0.8.8b so we need to compile our own package with 0.8.8c after installing OS.

VMware Converter does decent job converting old physical servers to virtual machines, but it refuses to do anything to servers using software RAID. I really don't get why such arbitary limitation is in place. It really doesn't matter if physical server used RAID, software or not, because everything is copied by Converter on file lever rather than block level.

I have one faulty non-RAID disk on server which I can't replace right now so I wanted to see if I could mask problems by manually triggering bad sector reallocation.