How to remove the NetApp Host Utilities hotfix check

  Update 2018-10-18 – Check out this comment. Looks like a much easier method than my MSI editing one.   Sick of the hotfix requirements for NetApp Host Utilities? Me to. On a test/dev server I have I’ve been experimenting with Veeam, iSCSI, ReFS and Server 2016. I wanted to run the NetApp Host Utilities … Read more

Specter/Meltdown performance impact on my Lenovo T450S

Did some quick benchmarks tonight with the mitigation’s enabled and disabled. I’m losing over 10% performance on a Broadwell i5-5300U   Enabled:   Disabled: If you want to try yourself here is how you can disable the mitigation’s. Run the following from Command Prompt or PowerShell. Make sure you ‘Run as Administrator’. reg add “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session … Read more