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…
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The Missing Manual Part 1: Veeam B & R Direct SAN Backups
One thing that I had problems with the first time I installed Veeam was the ability to backup Virtual Machines directly from the SAN. Meaning that instead of proxying the…
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 3 Takeaway
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…
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…
vSphere Design Workshop Day 1 Takeaway
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…
vSphere Solution Design (Pt1. Before Course)
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,…
VMWare Converter for PC Backup
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…
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.…
VMware SMB Designs
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…