Most people have realized by this point that Windows 8 lacks a traditional start menu. The reaction to the new start screen has been very mixed, and I find myself of the "what in the world were they thinking?!?!" side. …
Next, I needed some shared storage to eventually present to my nested ESXi servers. I decided to use HP's StoreVirtual VSA (Formerly LeftHand) because I work with it fairly often, and because it's the only VSA supported for SRM. HP…
With the release of vSphere 5.1 now, and some of the new features, I decided to dedicate a new series of posts just to 5.1, and install it all in my lab environment - from the ground up. First off…
Recently, I have been playing around with Windows 8. And, since it went RTM on Aug 1st, I figured I would install it fresh. I downloaded Windows 8 Pro from my subscription, and made sure to copy down my license key.…
I've been using various products along the way to backup Virtual Machines in VMware Environments. However, it wasn't until mid 2011 that I was really introduced to Veeam. So, I figured I would share my experience. At my previous job,…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…