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…
I've been getting frustrated with Windows lately - like everyone has at some point or another.. So I decided I would attempt to run Linux on my laptop instead. (I'm dual-booting for now). I've dabbled with Ubuntu every year or…