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vSphere Design Workshop Day 3 Takeaway

Posted on June 18, 2010 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments

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

Posted on June 16, 2010 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments

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

Posted on June 15, 2010 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments

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)

Posted on June 12, 2010 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments

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…

Ubiquiti AirMax Wireless P2MP

Posted on June 9, 2010 by Justin Paul | 5 Comments

Disclaimer: This is a pretty long article and explains the general overview of the network. I have not gotten into the technical setup of the radios in this article. I will save that for a future article. Background My family…

VMWare Converter for PC Backup

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

Standard Disclaimer: I do not issue any guarantee that this will work for you! I encourage you to use other backup methods in conjunction with this method so that your data is 100% secure. This method is strictly for supplementing…

Storage Multipathing with HP P4000 and IX2

Posted on May 30, 2010 by Justin Paul | 4 Comments

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…

Iomega IX2-200 Review (Part 1)

Posted on May 17, 2010 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments

So I have been contemplating buying a new USB drive to hold some virtual machines and ISO’s for work related stuff when I came across the Iomega IX series. Since my I.T. budget is smaller then most SMB’s I decided…

VMware SMB Designs

Posted on May 1, 2010 by Justin Paul | 3 Comments

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…