OpenVPN 2 Cookbook: Review
Recently I was contacted by one of the marketing people over at Packt Publishing and asked if I would like to take a look at their new OpenVPN 2 Cookbook. I guess they seen my post that on OpenVPN-ALS a…
Category: Software
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 I did watch the video presentation/demo that Gostev gave, and…
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 what was all available on it. For those of you…
Updating Zimbra OpenSource Edition
So if you have been running Zimbra Open Source Edition any decent amount of time, you have probably gotten emails similar to this one about there being an update available. I’ve worked with many open source Linux based projects before…
Zimbra Adds Document Management Revisioning
I was reading through the Zimbra 7 release notes today and noticed that with this release the Briefcase section has added some new features. Mainly the ability to check out/check in documents and keep revisions of the older versions. This…
Linux software RAID rebuild notes
This week I had to replace a drive in a linux based voip system, the drive was a member of a RAID 1 array holding the OS, boot partition, and swap partition. Replacing the drive was pretty simple, just a…
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 time… eyes are getting heavy, fingers are starting to type…
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 connection, but running directly from the server providing all of…
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 only have one computer accessing this information. This is what…
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…