The Missing Manual Part 3: Veeam Application Aware Backups
One thing that I don’t think is stressed enough in the Veeam manual is the “Application-Aware” checkbox that is, by default, not checked. Because Veeam (like most other image level…
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Microsoft Licensing in a Virtual World
I have thought about touching this topic several times, and each time I start to write the post I find myself stopping. I think it’s mostly because this debate is…
Hyper-V 3 for Me
Microsoft’s Hyper-V virtualization platform may be a 12 year old hanging out with a bunch of high school seniors, but this pre-teen is mature for his age. Could Hyper-V be…
HP NIC Teaming on 2008 Server Core
As part of an upcoming HyperV project, I was tasked with installing 2008 R2 Server Core with the HyperV role on an HP DL360 G7 server. So I started out…
Veeam’s Next Big Thing: Hyper-V
So now that Veeam has (in my opinion) conquered the VMware world, they have turned their sights to Hyper-V. While I did not get a chance to view the webinar…
Remote Desktop Connection Manager
This morning while wasting some time before the baby’s doctor appointment I was browsing around on Microsoft Connect. I had never heard of it before and thought I would see…
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…
ISCSI Performance
This blog post is to measure difference performance via different ISCSI paths to the same Microsoft Datastore. Storage: Directly from the Microsoft Storage Server 2008. This is not an ISCSI…
CIFS vs ISCSI: Centralized File Storage
I have a photography studio client that had two requirements: Centralized Storage & Speed. They had a CIF share to their server but were complaining about the lack of performance. They…
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…