Had your vHealth Checked Lately?
VMware and its’ partners offer a really cool service to customers called a Health Check. Basically, a Health Check Report is a listing of all of the VMware Best practices……
Author: Justin Paul
Setting vCenter Alarms with PowerCLI
Update: This script was intended for vSphere 4 and had a bunch of limitations. For a newer version with more functionality check out FixingITpro.com. PowerCLI, and Powershell in general, are…
Officially a VMware vExpert!
It looks like I can add one more credential to my about page today. This morning I checked my email and found the email I had been hoping for… confirmation…
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…
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.…