Serial Consoles FTW like its 1978!
A little history If you’re older than me I need not explain what a serial console is, but if you are younger than me then let me give you a little background information. Back in the day, they needed a way…
Category: Software
The Secret Sauce Behind zPlanner
zPlanner is a replication planning tool that analyzes VMware virtual machine storage patterns and helps plan for replication to the public cloud (or other disaster recovery locations). If you want to learn more about what zPlanner is, then check out the first…
zPlanner – Replication Planning Super Tool
What is zPlanner? Project goals As more and more companies make the decision to explore public cloud it has become very important to be able to gather statistical data from those workloads and analyze it for things like change rate,…
Remote Desktop Error: CredSSP encryption oracle remediation
Lately, I’ve been having trouble using Remote Desktop to get into machines in my lab. The error is always the same: What is CredSSP and why it is an issue? (From the Microsoft KB Article) Credential Security Support Provider protocol…
Zerto script: Quiesced MongoDB Journal Checkpoints!
Don’t let MongoDB get amnesia, quiesce it! If you are a MongoDB user that also has Zerto Virtual Replication you can now get quiesced Zerto journal checkpoints with a script I published this week over on the Zerto Tech Alliances…
Moving a SQL Cluster – The really easy way
A while ago (like 5 years ago) I wrote an article about how I migrated a virtualized SQL cluster from an old SAN to a new SAN. It is still surprisingly popular, so I thought I would share another way…
Ubiquiti Unifi Virtual Appliance
The easiest way to get started with a dedicated Unifi Controller... a linux based Virtual Appliance.
MS SQL AlwaysOn Availability Groups, a better way to cluster
I’ve done posts before about how much I hate Microsoft Clusters, mainly because of their shared disk requirements. While VMware does support a virtualized Microsoft cluster with shared disks, the bottom line is that its just a pain in the…
Lima Ohio Raspberry Pi Users Meeting Saturday
Just a quick reminder that this Saturday July 13th is the first Raspberry Pi users group meeting. The event is being sponsored by the Lima Regional IT Alliance (LRITA.org) as well as MCM Electronics. There will be Pizza, and an LRITA…
How to Expand Zimbra Appliance Hard Drive and Mail Storage Capacity
Lately I’ve been testing out the new Zimbra 8 Beta appliance in both my lab as well as on the cluster where I host my blog and some other sites. One of the first things I noticed was that by…
