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…
Year: 2011
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…
HP P2000 G3, What we really think
I received a P2000 G3 FC/iSCSI combo array from HP in mid-December so I could do some reviews as a, sort of, follow up to the G2 model that I…
GFI Backup: Home Edition
I started using a new product this week at my parents house for backup, and I have to say its pretty cool. I’m talking about GFI Backup: Home Edition. One…
Free Kaseya IT Toolkit
Recently I signed up for the FREE Kaseya’s IT Toolbox, which is a remote support tool from the same people who make the enterprise versions that MSP’s (Managed Service Providers)…
The Missing Manual Part 2: When Snapshots Go Wrong
One thing you are probably going to run into if you have virtualized your servers and are using a snapshot based based backup product are orphaned snapshots. I don’t think…
Open-E SAN Synchronous Replication
Today I was troubleshooting some performance issues between two Open-E SAN’s and found some pretty interesting information for anyone who is considering going with this product. Before I get into…
Veeam Backup and IP Changes
Today I brought a backup server back from one of our customer’s so that I could seed some replica’s. In order to do this I needed to change the IP…