ESXi backup and restore with vMA
The other day I was working on a project where I was migrating HP drives from internal storage, into a P2000 G3 SAS SAN. ( which worked amazingly btw) The catch was that besides being a local datastore they also…
Category: Howtos
GFI Backup: Home Edition
I started using a new product this week at my parents house for backup, and I have to say its pretty cool. I’m talking about GFI Backup: Home Edition. One of my co-workers mentioned it after I said I was…
Running vSphere 4 on HP P2000
Because there is no document published on how to setup and run VMware off of a P2000 I have put one together after reviewing the P2000 FC/iSCSI combo unit that I lent by HP. I have also created a PDF…
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 I would need to put much more time in to…
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 mention that I will probably to need to setup a…
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 storage… So why use Windows Storage Server you might ask…
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 and calendar, it provides document storage and editing, instant messaging,…
Installing a Linux PCoIP View Client
Last week I was reading through a forum and found a link to an HP thin term package that was said to contain a PCoIP LINUX View Client, since VMware does not have a Linux client with PCoIP I decided…