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Non VSS-Aware Application Backups with Veeam

Posted on August 14, 2011 by Justin Paul | 5 Comments

Most applications that run on Windows these days are VSS aware, sometimes however you run across an older server type application that is not. Combine that with snapshot-based backups and you could wind up with some issues if you ever…

vRAM, What About The Future?

Posted on August 3, 2011 by Justin Paul | 1 Comment

Today VMware announced some big chanced to their vRAM Entitlements on vSphere 5, basically doubling the amount you can assign on the two enterprise levels and increasing all others by 33%. For more information check out Tim’s post. This will…

HP DL380 G5 and SC08e SAS Card

Posted on August 1, 2011 by Justin Paul | 5 Comments

I’ve been asked several times if this combination will work, I guess the HP site says they are not compatible… or at least doesn’t list them as being tested and working. We do have a customer that runs an SC08e…

What I’m looking forward to at VMworld 2011

Posted on July 29, 2011 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments

With exactly 29 days until I’m on a plane destined for Vegas, I thought I would share what I’m looking forward to the most at VMworld 2011. 2011 is my second year attending VMworld, last year was a great time…

Migrating External SAS storage to VMware

Posted on July 28, 2011 by Justin Paul | 3 Comments

The Mission: Virtualize a very SMB customers file and document imaging server off of their aging hardware while leaving intact an MSA50 drive shelf. The idea is that because the MSA50 and its drives were added much later, the client…

Is vSphere 5 Storage Appliance a good buy?

Posted on July 27, 2011 by Justin Paul | 12 Comments

VMware is targeting SMB’s and branch offices for its latest vSphere add-on. The vSphere 5 Storage Appliance offers customers the choice of putting internal storage in their ESXi servers and then create a shared storage repository out of it. This…

vRAM: Some Good News

Posted on July 26, 2011 by Justin Paul | 3 Comments

I was reading through some partner documentation and found two question and answers that I think will help ease some of the anger surrounding vRAM Entitlements in the VMware user community. This is pretty awesome news! I completely agree with…

Scale Up or Scale Out, Which do you do? 2 Socket or 4 Socket Servers?

Posted on July 25, 2011 by Justin Paul | 5 Comments

I was talking with a customer today about an application we are talking about virtualizing. The vendor only recommends purchasing HP DL580 servers, loading them with lots of RAM and 4 CPU’s. I personally like the idea of DL380 servers…

vSphere 5 Free Hypervisor = Useless

Posted on July 25, 2011 by Justin Paul | 27 Comments

UPDATE: VMware has revised the vRAM entitlements (it’s now 32GB instead of 8GB) for all of its products. Therefore this post is pretty much void, and you can get more details about the new vRAM entitlements by visiting VMware.com or…

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DIY Precision Agriculture: Fertilizer Monitor with Raspberry Pi Pico Part 1

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DIY Stratum 1 NTP Server: Secure Time Sync with Raspberry Pi Under $200