EMC VNXe 3100 – An Introduction
Recently, I got my hands on the EMC vnxe 3100. It’s a great SAN solution for SMBs, and very easy to setup and administer. Having worked mostly with Equalogic and HP SAN solutions, The Unisphere interface on the EMC VNXe’s was refreshing and simple. Physical Setup: Couldn’t be easier. EMC ships a handy quick start [...]
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Exchange 2010 and Outlook 2003 Slowness
It’s been a little while since I have had to migrate Exchange 2003 to 2010, and I ran into a familiar problem again – so I thought I would share. I migrated a couple users over from the Exchange 2003 server onto the Exchange 2010 server, and the next day users were complaining of slowness. [...]
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Passed VCP510 Exam
This morning I took the VCP510 exam and passed! This was a little tougher than the VCP4 exam. 85 questions, and it took me an hour. Lots of good questions. This is one thing that I have liked about VMware, is that they make it near impossible to pass these without hands-on experience (either production, [...]
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vSphere VSA Raid requirements relaxed!
Today VMware announced on it’s blog that the RAID 1o requirements will be dropped, and that VMware will be supporting RAID 5 and RAID 6 as well. See the blog here, and see the updated documentation here. So, this means that you will be able to use more of your local storage! Before, with RAID [...]
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Changing Local Admin Passwords on the network
Every so often, it’s good practice to change passwords. I think that everyone it IT is aware of that. One of the most overlooked passwords is the local Administrator’s password on every machine on the network. Sure, your user’s are required to change theirs every 90 days, and you change your domain Administrator’s password at [...]
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