02/21/2012
Here is a summary of what is going on, but for a complete list go to: SMS proTECH’s Page VMware Business Technology Lunch & Learn Wednesday, March 21, 2012 – 10:00am – 2:00pm Findlay Country Club, 1500 Country Club Drive,...
02/20/2012
Recently I was putting together a proposal for a customer who needed to refresh 40 desktops, in the proposal I needed to compare the costs of replacing the aging desktops with new HP Desktop PC’s versus replacing them with VMware View Desktops...
02/09/2012
First I would like to thank Calvin and his team for inviting me out to Fort Collins, it truly was a great experience. Second I would like to say that this post should have been done two weeks ago, but my day job has been crazy busy and this is...
01/30/2012
In case you experience any hiccups or notice that the site is redirecting to an IP (98.100.90.202), it is because I just moved the site to its new home. Everything should be back to normal in about 2 days once the good ol’ DNS system catches...
01/24/2012
From vSphere-Land.com….. There are over 180 blogs dedicated to VMware virtualization, here’s your chance to pick your favorites and determine the top blogs. The last voting was over a year ago and new bloggers are springing up every month....
01/23/2012
This week I’m off to Fort Collins Colorado to visit HP for their latest Tech Day on storage. This is my first invitation to the HP Tech Day events and I’m told they will be showing us all the latest and greatest technology that HP has to...
01/22/2012
While I’m not an Apple fanboy by any means, we do have two iPads at our house but I’ve always struggled with what productive use they have. Almost half of the apps on mine are games, and I would say that the main purpose of the other one...
01/19/2012
If you are a VMware vExpert, VMware Certified Professional (VCP), VMware Certified Instructor (VCI) or VMware User Group (VMUG) member, you can get a FREE 2-socket NFR license for Veeam Backup & Replication v6 for your home or work lab. Register...
01/12/2012
In an effort to make migration to a virtual infrastructure easier, I have put together another document to aid in that process. This one tries to mimic the EMC SAN Worksheet you fill out when you get a new SAN. The difference is this one covers not...
01/03/2012
This is a pretty known issue in the Veeam world, but in case you are looking around for why your Direct from SAN backups are failing and don’t want to call support… If you are doing direct from SAN backups with Veeam 6 and you are...
12/27/2011
I have worked with several EMC SAN’s as well as a slew of SAN’s from other vendors, but I had not yet gotten the opportunity to mess around with a VNX5300 before last week. This SAN is for an upcoming project I will be installing so I...
12/26/2011
With version 6 of Veeam Backup and Replication comes an entirely new architecture on how to setup WAN replication of your virtual machines. Their marketing propaganda claims HUGE improvements in WAN replication speeds because of this change. If you...
11/30/2011
Now that Veeam Backup and Replication 6 is out we can start talking about the best way to setup your Disaster Recovery site replication. Because of all of the new things included with Veeam 6 there are a couple ways we can do replication now so the...
11/29/2011
Today one of the emails that made it through my spam filter was from some company advertising a “Free VMware Monitoring Tool”, normally I would have just deleted it and moved on, but for some reason I decided to check it out. So far I...
11/29/2011
Last week I worked with HP on a customer SAN where two nodes had randomly rebooted all by themselves without any warning. Because they had another node and a fail over manager all their volumes stayed online, but after the second one rebooted we...
11/29/2011
Well It’s official, Veeam has officially released v6 of its Backup and Replication product, what a great start to the Christmas season. I have been beta testing v6 for a few months and have put it to work in a variety of environments,...
11/26/2011
Backup Army ? Huh you say? Well that is exactly what you can create with Veeam v6. In Veeam v5 as well as with most other backup applications if you have too much data to backup for one server you simply create a second backup server and manually...
11/26/2011
While I cannot yet share my experience or any details of the Veeam Backup and Replication v6 Beta that I have been using for over a month now, I would like to share a paper that Veeam released detailing the new features in Veeam Backup and...
11/21/2011
This post is a little late because of some time issues I had last week. So without further delay… This is week number three of my SMB Open Source software series and so far we have a back office server solution and a desktop OS solution. To...
11/11/2011
This week I thought we should build on the Zentyal Linux Small Business Server that we took a look at last Friday. After all what good is a Linux server if you are still accessing it from a Windows desktop right ? (Although because of its Domain...
