My top posts of 2010 and looking into 2011
Since its the last day of 2010 I thought I should write a little something about how the first year (well technically 7 months) has treated my site. I have…
Year: 2010
Meet Elizabeth Marie
Kimberly and I would like to introduce the newest member to the Paul family. Elizabeth Marie Paul She was born on Tuesday December 28th 2010, at 5:02pm. Her birth weight…
Running vSphere 4 on HP P2000
Because there is no document published on how to setup and run VMware off of a P2000 I have put one together after reviewing the P2000 FC/iSCSI combo unit that…
OpenVPN-ALS (Adito) SSL VPN Gateway
At the co-lo where my servers are hosted I have an older PIX firewall, it does a great job in terms of keeping things out. Without it I’m sure that…
ISCSI Performance
This blog post is to measure difference performance via different ISCSI paths to the same Microsoft Datastore. Storage: Directly from the Microsoft Storage Server 2008. This is not an ISCSI…
HP P2000/MSA G3: A First look for SMB’s
Related Articles include: HP P2000 (MSA2000i) Review and Running vSphere 4 on HP P2000 A while back I wrote a review of the HP P2000 G2 (aka MSA2000 G2) and…
Snapshots Explained in Layman’s Terms
One of the most misunderstood and misused things that I run into are snapshots. Regardless of whether they are at the SAN level or at the VMware level... most people…
CIFS vs ISCSI: Centralized File Storage
I have a photography studio client that had two requirements: Centralized Storage & Speed. They had a CIF share to their server but were complaining about the lack of performance. They…
SANiQ 9.0 Server ‘Clusters’
I installed the HP P4000 VSA software the other day just see if there were any major interface changes and did find one so far that I think will be…
Fixing ‘Datastore Usage on Disk’ Alarms when using Virtual SAN Software
Background I was doing an upgrade from 4.0 to 4.1 this week on a two node cluster. This cluster is owned by an SMB and its a fully contained VMware…