Another Great Month
I just wanted to take a second to thank everyone who reads my blog. June exceeded my expectations once again on the number of unique visitors as well as the…
Month: June 2011
My Exagrid Road Map
I did a post a while ago about things I would like to see Veeam add to their road map, and I don’t think that any of them were added,…
RAID10: Do you really need it?
This past week I installed an EMC VNXe 3100, the install went well and the new Unisphere Interface made it a snap to get the VMware ESXi boxes added. One…
VUM Update Staging Fails
Monday I was working on a customer’s system and showing them all the nice features of VMware, I also showed them Update Manager and tried to update their Hosts… and…
Datastore Provisioned Space vs Free Space
Last week I was asked by a customer which datastore would be the best location for a new virtual machine. They asked because while all of their datastores were showing…
Diskeeper V-locity 2 effects on Block Level Change
The product that I’m reviewing in this article is Diskeeper’s V-locity 2 product, which can be found here. This will not be a post about how much faster a fragment…
OpenVPN 2 Cookbook: Review
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.…
My latest non-IT project
Since it’s fathers day, I thought I would share one of the non-IT, family, related projects I’ve been working on. (Don’t worry… I didn’t actually spent time on fathers day…
Online Store vs. a VAR
Yesterday I got an email from a reader who was getting a quote together for a new HP P2000 SAN, it sounded like he had all the part numbers he…
Technology First – June
Technologyfirst.org is a local tech related newspaper that is printed monthly and distributed around the Dayton Ohio area. I used to pick up a copy all the time when I…