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…
Author: Justin Paul
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…
VMWorld impressions so far
We landed at SFO about 5pm Sunday. Took the BART to downtown, which was $8.10… much cheaper then the $50 dollar cab ride the last time I was here. The…
How Veeam Saved My Blog!
Lately I have been tweaking some things to make my blog respond a little faster. I was optimizing MySQL and Apache, but this morning things required a reboot the VM. A…
The Missing Manual Part 1: Veeam B & R Direct SAN Backups
One thing that I had problems with the first time I installed Veeam was the ability to backup Virtual Machines directly from the SAN. Meaning that instead of proxying the…
SAN Thick or Thin provisioning?
The company that I work for has decided to get all of the virtualization system engineers together in order to discuss best practices and to help standardize how we setup…
