VMWorld impressions so far
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…
Category: Virtualization
How Veeam Saved My Blog!
Lately I have been tweaking some things to make my blog respond a little faster. I was optimizing MySQL and Apache, but this morning things required a reboot the VM. A little more history…. this blog, as well as some other…
SAN Thick or Thin provisioning?
The company that I work for has decided to get all of the virtualization system engineers together in order to discuss best practices and to help standardize how we setup customer systems. This week was the first week and we…
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…
vSphere Design Workshop Day 3 Takeaway
Quotes of the day: “After I learned PowerShell I knew I could stop being a Console Hugger and transition to ESXi” “Snapshots are a back out process, NOT a backup process” Some interesting things learned from today include: If applications…
vSphere Design Workshop Day 2 Takeaway
Quote of the day: “The 3 most common lies: I Love you, The check is in the mail, and that will be fixed in the next revision” Today started out with us talking about HA Slot Size, by default this…
vSphere Design Workshop Day 1 Takeaway
My day started off with a nice walk from the hotel to the Microtek facility… about 1.2 miles, which is probably more than I have walked at any single stretch in about 1.2 years, but it was worth it. First…
vSphere Solution Design (Pt1. Before Course)
Next week I will be attending a VMware vSphere Design Course in Chicago and thought it would be interesting to write an article on designing out a virtualization solution before, and then do a follow up post on what I…
Storage Multipathing with HP P4000 and IX2
Last week I was discussing how I normally lay out a VMWare cluster so that it has no single point of failure with one of the storage architects for HP. He made some suggestions that got me thinking, so the…
VMware SMB Designs
My first “real” post! So my job day to day is to design out solutions for customers, one of the biggest things I run into are small business’s who have heard the good word of virtualization or attended a show…