OpenVPN-ALS (Adito) SSL VPN Gateway
At the co-lo where my servers are hosted I have an older PIX firewall, it does a great job in terms of keeping things out. Without it I’m sure that…
Author: Justin Paul
HP P2000/MSA G3: A First look for SMB’s
Related Articles include: HP P2000 (MSA2000i) Review and Running vSphere 4 on HP P2000 A while back I wrote a review of the HP P2000 G2 (aka MSA2000 G2) and…
Snapshots Explained in Layman’s Terms
One of the most misunderstood and misused things that I run into are snapshots. Regardless of whether they are at the SAN level or at the VMware level... most people…
SANiQ 9.0 Server ‘Clusters’
I installed the HP P4000 VSA software the other day just see if there were any major interface changes and did find one so far that I think will be…
Fixing ‘Datastore Usage on Disk’ Alarms when using Virtual SAN Software
Background I was doing an upgrade from 4.0 to 4.1 this week on a two node cluster. This cluster is owned by an SMB and its a fully contained VMware…
Why do I blog?
Since today is Thanksgiving I thought I would take a break from the geek posts and answer a question that I have been asked several times. Why do you blog?…
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…
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…
