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…
Author: Justin Paul
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…
HP P2000 G3 SAS SAN
I’ve done several posts about the P2000 series of SAN’s from HP, but all of the posts had to do with the iSCSI or Fiber Channel models. This post is…
How to Size Memory for VMware Servers
One of the things you have to do when building out your VMware cluster is size the amount of memory (RAM) you need. From what I have seen most people…
EMC VNXe 3100: My First Look
Last week I unboxed my first EMC VNXe 3100 SAN for a client. At first glance the VNXe looks much like the Clariion AX4, the only thing that is different…