Things to keep in mind if upgrading to vSphere 5.5
If you are a super early adopter there are a few KB articles that you will want to keep an eye on if you are looking to go to vSphere…
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MS SQL AlwaysOn Availability Groups, a better way to cluster
I’ve done posts before about how much I hate Microsoft Clusters, mainly because of their shared disk requirements. While VMware does support a virtualized Microsoft cluster with shared disks, the…
Devolutions Remote Desktop Manager Review
As part of my day job I spend a bunch of time getting in and out of customer networks to monitor and fix things. Managing the connection information for a…
Moving to HP Cloud DNS Services
Update 2016-10-20: Since writing this article HP has shutdown their cloud offering. I now host my DNS at Cloudflare and it works great! The other day I got an email…
HP Gen8 MicroServer; Is it time to update your lab ?
This week at HP Discover a new MicroServer was unveiled. It was billed as a server for the really small SMB or for a college dorm or home server even.…
Trying out Ubiquiti Networks UniFi Wireless @ Home
Now let me start by saying, as my Twitter handle @ciscovoicedude implies, that yes I’m a bit of a Cisco fanboy, and disclaimer – I work for a Cisco partner.…
Implementing VMware Horizon View 5.2 Book Review
A couple of months ago Packt asked if I would do a technical review of a VMware View book for them written by Jason Ventresco. Jason is a blogger and…
My frustration with Hyper-V, do you really save anything?
The story of a difficult experience with Hyper-V If you follow my Twitter feed you knew this article was coming… After spending about 3 hours on the phone with a…
VMware View 5.2 is now GA
Today VMware View 5.2 was released, and with it comes a list of new features. Some of which might be helpful and some of which you might never use 🙂…
Cloudberry Online Backup Review
If you are looking to push your small business or even just your personal laptop backups to the cloud, Cloudberry‘s Online Backup product might just be what you are looking…