Posted on November 12, 2010 by | 0 Comments
So its almost that time of year again where mom’s and dad’s start asking what we want for Christmas. Normally I reply with, “I don’t know”, because the only stuff I’m interested in these days is servers and storage and…
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Posted on October 26, 2010 by | 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…
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Posted on October 3, 2010 by | 4 Comments
If you tried to access my site Saturday you probably got a “page could not be displayed” message. Apparently the power at the datacenter in Dayton went out for a bit and took out one of the service providers switches.…
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Posted on September 20, 2010 by | 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…
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Posted on September 19, 2010 by | 24 Comments
Related Articles include: Running vSphere 4 on HP P2000 and HP P2000/MSA G3: A First look for SMB’s Recently I was given the chance to install an HP P2000 / MSA2000i iSCSI SAN for a customer. This blog post details…
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Posted on September 9, 2010 by | 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…
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Posted on August 31, 2010 by | 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…
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