Reiterating Why I Blog
This morning I got an email from Linked-In telling me about all the new groups I should join, and since I’m on vacation today and trying not to get too…
Year: 2012
VMware VCP5-IAAS Study Matrix (vCloud Certification)
VMware recently released the VCP-VCD510 (or VCP-IAAS) Certification and its study blueprint. I always like to know which material is covered more in-depth than others so I put together a…
Veeam and Data Domain: A Case Study
This is the story of a customer who recently implemented Veeam and Data Domain; all names have been changed to protect the innocent, etc etc 🙂 Background “BOB’S BAIT AND…
Win a Dream Lab from Veeam
If you need some new lab gear you will want to stop by booth 1709 at VMworld this year. Veeam is giving away pretty sweet home lab setup this year,…
VNXe Controller failover compared to other SAN devices
Update: With the release of the VNXe3200 all of the issues discussed in this post have been resolved. For a review of the VNXe3200 controller failover process check out my…
How to Expand Zimbra Appliance Hard Drive and Mail Storage Capacity
Lately I’ve been testing out the new Zimbra 8 Beta appliance in both my lab as well as on the cluster where I host my blog and some other sites.…
Veeam Exchange Explorer
Exchange Explorer from Veeam is a product that was just released into public beta; and I must say that it is probably something you are going to want to check…
How-To: Migrate MS SQL Cluster to a New SAN
During a recent SAN installation I ran into a Microsoft SQL cluster that needed to be migrated from an old SAN to a new SAN. After doing a bunch of…
Zimbra 8.0 Beta 1
Wow! That is pretty much the only word that I have to describe what I just read from the first 6 pages of the Zimbra Collaboration Server 8 (Z8 hereafter)…
Defragmenting your Iomega IX2-200
Disclaimer: As with all howto posts here, I do not take any responsibility if you lose your data. I have done research to make sure that all information provided here…