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HP P4000 / Lefthand Node Migration

Posted on April 5, 2011 by Justin Paul | 19 Comments

First a quick background for those unfamiliar with the P4000 line. HP bought a small company called Lefthand, which made a software product called SANiQ, this product could be installed on a server with lots of storage and then the…

Introducing Tim Smith

Posted on April 3, 2011 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments

Well the “new guy” at the office has decided to start blogging after some harassing. His name is Tim, and he works with the team at SMSproTech, he has a strong skill set which includes virtualization, Microsoft, and a “can…

Installing ESXi from USB stick

Posted on March 29, 2011 by Justin Paul | 5 Comments

Lately, more and more servers are shipping without CD or DVD drives, and if you are like me, you don’t want to carry a USB CD/DVD drive with you. Luckily there is a way to create a USB stick (thumb…

Veeam vPower Instant Recovery

Posted on March 24, 2011 by Justin Paul | 5 Comments

I was talking with some colleagues the other day and we were going through the different ways that one of our customers could avoid the purchase of a SAN, but still have very good RPO and RTO. We have recommended…

Don’t buy new PC’s, Virtualize them!

Posted on March 22, 2011 by Justin Paul | 1 Comment

Lately, I have been focusing on VMware View and virtual desktops, mostly on the setup of View and getting desktop templates tweaked and such, but then the sales side of me took over. While I openly admit that I personally…

Veeam Direct Attached Backups with HP P2000 SAS

Posted on March 21, 2011 by Justin Paul | 27 Comments

I’ve talked about the benefits of “Direct Attached” backups in Veeam before, but normally always in conjunction with an iSCSI type SAN’s. Lately, though, we have had a lot of interest in the HP P2000 G3 SAS attached SAN, mostly…

Zimbra Adds Document Management Revisioning

Posted on March 14, 2011 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments

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…

How much bandwidth for offsite VM replication?

Posted on March 12, 2011 by Justin Paul | 6 Comments

One of the hardest parts of planning a virtualization project for a customer is telling them how much bandwidth they are going to need in order to replicate their data from one site to another. Not only is every case…

Introducing a New Sponsor, Veeam!

Posted on March 12, 2011 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments

This week Veeam Software signed on as my first sponsor. I’m pretty excited to have them as a sponsor because their software is great! Their Backup and Replication product is responsible for backing up the VM that runs this site…

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