Free Kaseya IT Toolkit
Recently I signed up for the FREE Kaseya’s IT Toolbox, which is a remote support tool from the same people who make the enterprise versions that MSP’s (Managed Service Providers)…
Author: Justin Paul
The Missing Manual Part 2: When Snapshots Go Wrong
One thing you are probably going to run into if you have virtualized your servers and are using a snapshot based based backup product are orphaned snapshots. I don’t think…
Open-E SAN Synchronous Replication
Today I was troubleshooting some performance issues between two Open-E SAN’s and found some pretty interesting information for anyone who is considering going with this product. Before I get into…
Veeam Backup and IP Changes
Today I brought a backup server back from one of our customer’s so that I could seed some replica’s. In order to do this I needed to change the IP…
AX4 vs P2000 G3: 15k vs 15k drives
Recently I tested an EMC Clariion AX4-5 array and compared it to the HP P2000 G3 array. You can find that post over here, and after I wrote it I…
Windows 7 was MY idea ?
OK well, it wasn’t my idea because if it was I’d be frickin RICH! Anyhow, I’ve been up since about 3 AM with the baby, its now about 5:30…it’s crunch…
Infrastructure Upgrades
For the better part of 3 years I have hosted several mustang forums and other stuff on a pair of Dell 2650 servers. At first, there was just local storage…
Choosing the right UPS for your I.T. needs
One thing that I see a lot of while I’m onsite are APC SmartUPS, and at one time I even had a couple. I always ask the customer why they…
HP P2000 G3 vs EMC Clariion AX4
One of my upcoming projects is to install a new EMC Clariion AX4 iSCSI SAN for a customer who currently has an aging AX4 that only has SATA storage. The…
Why RDIMM/UDIMM memory matters
If your looking at different servers to buy for your next virtualization project make sure you check the memory that they come with. New servers utilize DDR3 RAM which comes…