Surviving the Outage
Friday evening Ohio residents got hit by a pretty severe thunderstorm with 80+ mph winds. Needless to say everything was a mess, power was out, trees were down, anything…
Author: Justin Paul
HP P2000 Performance Tool
One thing that the standard HP P2000 web interface does not touch at all is performance stats. In fact one of my biggest complaints about the box is that there…
Accelerating Branch Office File Sharing with MS BranchCache
I’ve done a bunch of articles about how to save your bandwidth when you are trying to replicate backups and virtual machines to your disaster recovery site, however I don’t…
Storing Big Data with EMC Isilon
What is BIG DATA? 1PB … 16TB … 32GB? Honestly it means something different for everyone, but no matter what it means you you the main goal is to make…
Lots of buzz in the VMware Space
Yesterday VMware publicly announced two projects that they have been working on, so I figured I would share some details on those projects that were mentioned in the presentation. First…
The Missing Manual Part 3: Veeam Application Aware Backups
One thing that I don’t think is stressed enough in the Veeam manual is the “Application-Aware” checkbox that is, by default, not checked. Because Veeam (like most other image level…
vExpert 2012!
After seeing my email box blow up this morning with new posts on the vExpert board I thought I better have a look and see if I was on the…
Findlay Lunch and Learn Presentation
As requested here is a copy of the Power Point that was presented at the Findlay Lunch and Learn Wednesday, March 21, 2012 Business Case for Virtualization If anyone has…
Installing HP CIM drivers on ESXi 5.0
What is CIM? CIM means Common Information Model, and they allow for communication between the ESXi Operating System and the hardware sensors. Why do I need it? Normally I am…
VCP5 Exam Tips
Today I sat for the VMware Certified Professional 5 test since it was the last day before the “What’s New” class was going to be a requirement for the upgrade…