Recently, I had a pair of Data Domains that were having replication issues. After the offsite was seeded, and taken to it's location - we noticed that the pre-comp remaining value would get down to 150 GiB or so,…
One thing that I run across quite a bit is customers that want to implement Zerto for their replication needs, but are unsure of what the bandwidth requirements would be for their organization. Luckily, Zerto provides a WAN sizing…
Just after VMworld this year, VMTurbo signed up as a sponsor for this blog. If you aren't familiar with VMTurbo, I highly recommend you try out some of their free tools to start! I will be adding some posts…
Many times throughout my projects, I find it necessary to enable remote desktop on machines that I do not have console access to - usually because I myself am working remotely on the customer. While there has always been…
Here at VMworld 2014, one of the hands on labs was the new EVO:Rail. The lab walks through the process of the installation and then creating some VMs and managing them. Installation Overview: Connect to the IP of the…
At VMworld this morning, VMware announced it's latest product, EVO:RAIL. So just what is EVO:RAIL? EVO:RAIL is a hyper-converged solution for business of many sizes. Partnering with multiple hardware vendors, and utilizing vSphere with VSAN, VMware is able to…
*disclaimer* Veeam is a sponsor of this blog - but has not requested, or had any part in this entry. Working for a consulting firm, I work with many different backup solutions. In this particular case, the client uses…
I come across a lot of virtual environments (and physical) that don't have NTP (Time Servers) setup properly. If you've ever worked in Active Directory, you know how important synchronized time can be - let alone with so many other…
Recently, I was moving my lab away from the VSAN beta code, and onto the ESXi 5.5 update 1 bits. I started fresh with my hosts, and simply upgraded my vCenter server. However, I ran into an issue once…
I've done a fair amount of installs of this combination, Veeam and EMC's DataDomain deduplication device. The solution is a wonderful combination - but the number 1 complaint is that it is slow........slower than it should be. Why is it…