Installing ESXi from USB stick
Lately, more and more servers are shipping without CD or DVD drives, and if you are like me, you don’t want to carry a USB CD/DVD drive with you. Luckily…
Month: March 2011
Veeam vPower Instant Recovery
I was talking with some colleagues the other day and we were going through the different ways that one of our customers could avoid the purchase of a SAN, but…
Don’t buy new PC’s, Virtualize them!
Lately, I have been focusing on VMware View and virtual desktops, mostly on the setup of View and getting desktop templates tweaked and such, but then the sales side of…
Veeam Direct Attached Backups with HP P2000 SAS
I’ve talked about the benefits of “Direct Attached” backups in Veeam before, but normally always in conjunction with an iSCSI type SAN’s. Lately, though, we have had a lot of…
Updating Zimbra OpenSource Edition
So if you have been running Zimbra Open Source Edition any decent amount of time, you have probably gotten emails similar to this one about there being an update available.…
Zimbra Adds Document Management Revisioning
I was reading through the Zimbra 7 release notes today and noticed that with this release the Briefcase section has added some new features. Mainly the ability to check out/check…
How much bandwidth for offsite VM replication?
One of the hardest parts of planning a virtualization project for a customer is telling them how much bandwidth they are going to need in order to replicate their data…
Introducing a New Sponsor, Veeam!
This week Veeam Software signed on as my first sponsor. I’m pretty excited to have them as a sponsor because their software is great! Their Backup and Replication product is…
ESXi backup and restore with vMA
The other day I was working on a project where I was migrating HP drives from internal storage, into a P2000 G3 SAS SAN. ( which worked amazingly btw) The…
Linux software RAID rebuild notes
This week I had to replace a drive in a linux based voip system, the drive was a member of a RAID 1 array holding the OS, boot partition, and…