Howto: Build a VMWare based MCITP lab environment
Now that I have started studying for my MCITP certification I found that I am going to need some windows servers in order to complete all the labs. Not to…
Author: Justin Paul
Howto: Windows Storage Server for VMware Storage
Why? There are countless SAN vendors out there that work very well for VMware shared storage, there are also many linux distributions that provide iSCSI and NFS options for shared…
Zimbra Community Edition Installation and Review
What is Zimbra? (from the Zimbra website) “… It’s an email and calendar server plus much more; think about it like a next-generation Microsoft Exchange server. In addition to email…
My Virtual Christmas List
So its almost that time of year again where mom’s and dad’s start asking what we want for Christmas. Normally I reply with, “I don’t know”, because the only stuff…
Updated: Things That Are Missing/My Wish List
Over the last couple of weeks I have noticed some things that I think are missing in several of my favorite products. Lets start with VMware vSphere. The feature I’m…
Virtualizing USB Devices
One of the biggest things that I have seen people worry about when planning a virtualization project are USB license keys. We work with manufacturing facilities a lot and many…
Power Outage and Upgrades
If you tried to access my site Saturday you probably got a “page could not be displayed” message. Apparently the power at the datacenter in Dayton went out for a…
Recipe for SMB Clusters
Ingredients: 1 – VMware Software Package 1 or 2 – Gigabit Network Switch 2 or 3 – 64-bit Capable Server 1 – SAN Directions: Load servers with VMware ESXi, configure…
HP P2000 (MSA2000i) Review
Related Articles include: Running vSphere 4 on HP P2000 and HP P2000/MSA G3: A First look for SMB’s Recently I was given the chance to install an HP P2000 /…
LRITA Presentation Slides
I was asked to post my presentation from tonight’s Lima Regional IT Alliance meeting. It was a basic (not completely organized) presentation on virtualization project planning and some tips for…
