Snapshots Explained in Layman’s Terms
One of the most misunderstood and misused things that I run into are snapshots. Regardless of whether they are at the SAN level or at the VMware level... most people…
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My Virtual Christmas List
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…
SAN Thick or Thin provisioning?
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…
vSphere Design Workshop Day 2 Takeaway
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…
Storage Multipathing with HP P4000 and IX2
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.…
Iomega IX2-200 Review (Part 1)
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…