Design Tips Archives - Page 2 of 2

Saturday, 20 April 2024

Accelerating Branch Office File Sharing with MS BranchCache

Posted on May 23, 2012 by Justin Paul | 11 Comments

I’ve done a bunch of articles about how to save your bandwidth when you are trying to replicate backups and virtual machines to your disaster recovery site, however I don’t think I have ever talked about anything that accelerates active…

Virtualization Project Worksheet

Posted on January 12, 2012 by Justin Paul | 1 Comment

In an effort to make a migration to a virtual infrastructure easier, I have put together another document to aid in that process. This one tries to mimic the EMC SAN Worksheet you fill out when you get a new…

Avoiding Disasters with Veeam 6 Replication

Posted on November 30, 2011 by Justin Paul | 25 Comments

Now that Veeam Backup and Replication 6 is out we can start talking about the best way to setup your Disaster Recovery site replication. Because of all of the new things included with Veeam 6 there are a couple ways…

Design Tip: Switching in a VMware Environment

Posted on September 21, 2011 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments

Switching is the backbone of every network, without it, you really don’t even have a network. In a VMware environment, it can be twice as crucial because iSCSI also depends on Ethernet switches. Normally for front-end connectivity (from VMware servers…

OpenVPN 2 Cookbook: Review

Posted on June 20, 2011 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments

Recently I was contacted by one of the marketing people over at Packt Publishing and asked if I would like to take a look at their new OpenVPN 2 Cookbook. I guess they seen my post that on OpenVPN-ALS a…