Virtualization Archives - Page 14 of 15

Snapshots Explained in Layman’s Terms

Posted on December 4, 2010 by Justin Paul | 7 Comments

One of the most misunderstood and misused things that I run into are snapshots. Regardless of whether they are at the SAN level or at the VMware level... most people just don't understand what they are really doing when they…

SANiQ 9.0 Server ‘Clusters’

Posted on November 29, 2010 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments

I installed the HP P4000 VSA software the other day just see if there were any major interface changes and did find one so far that I think will be really helpful. Normally you would add in all of your…

Fixing ‘Datastore Usage on Disk’ Alarms when using Virtual SAN Software

Posted on November 27, 2010 by Justin Paul | 1 Comment

Background I was doing an upgrade from 4.0 to 4.1 this week on a two node cluster. This cluster is owned by an SMB and its a fully contained VMware setup, basically it has two DL380 G6 servers each with…

Howto: Build a VMWare based MCITP lab environment

Posted on November 24, 2010 by Justin Paul | 18 Comments

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

Posted on November 23, 2010 by Justin Paul | 29 Comments

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…

Updated: Things That Are Missing/My Wish List

Posted on October 29, 2010 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments

Over the last couple of weeks I have noticed some things that I think are missing in several of my favorite products. Lets start with VMware vSphere. The feature I’m going to talk about first isnt really “needed” as there…

Virtualizing USB Devices

Posted on October 26, 2010 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments

One of the biggest things that I have seen people worry about when planning a virtualization project are USB license keys. We work with manufacturing facilities a lot and many software vendors for their line of business still seem to…

Recipe for SMB Clusters

Posted on September 20, 2010 by Justin Paul | 13 Comments

Ingredients: 1 – VMware Software Package 1 or 2 – Gigabit Network Switch 2 or 3 – 64-bit Capable Server 1 – SAN Directions: Load servers with VMware ESXi, configure vswitches Configure SAN, add SAN to ESXi servers and format…

LRITA Presentation Slides

Posted on September 9, 2010 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments

I was asked to post my presentation from tonight’s Lima Regional IT Alliance meeting. It was a basic (not completely organized) presentation on virtualization project planning and some tips for keeping your VMware implementation running smoothly. SMSproTech – Virtualization Presentation…

VMWorld impressions so far

Posted on August 31, 2010 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments

We landed at SFO about 5pm Sunday. Took the BART to downtown, which was $8.10… much cheaper then the $50 dollar cab ride the last time I was here. The BART was surprisingly a fun experience and only took maybe…