Veeam vPower Instant Recovery
I was talking with some colleagues the other day and we were going through the different ways that one of our customers could avoid the purchase of a SAN, but…
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I Passed VCAP-DCD!
After a long 6 week wait, and a frustrating 3 hours more, its official…I passed the VCAP-DCD (Beta Test). It was probably the hardest test I have taken, mainly because…
ISCSI Performance
This blog post is to measure difference performance via different ISCSI paths to the same Microsoft Datastore. Storage: Directly from the Microsoft Storage Server 2008. This is not an ISCSI…
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…
Howto: Build a VMWare based MCITP lab environment
Now that I have started studying for my MCITP certification I found that I am going to need some windows servers in order to complete all the labs. Not to…
Howto: Windows Storage Server for VMware Storage
Why? There are countless SAN vendors out there that work very well for VMware shared storage, there are also many linux distributions that provide iSCSI and NFS options for shared…
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…
Virtualizing USB Devices
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…
VMWorld impressions so far
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…
How Veeam Saved My Blog!
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…