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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Posted on August 14, 2010 by | 3 Comments
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…
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Posted on July 14, 2010 by | 7 Comments
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…
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