Introductions
In 1999, a friend of mine approached me asking me if I wanted to help him run some cables in an office building for $10/hr. I said sure. Being a techy-guy, I started asking questions about what...
View ArticleUpgrading to vSphere 4 - The Experience (Part 1)
The day had arrived. After many marketing documents, press releases, and speculative forum posts, we were all waiting with baited breath to see just how VMware could make one of the most revolutionary...
View ArticleOracle on VMware - One Man's battle against a titan.
Is it just me, or is there still a lot of taboo and misinformation in our industry about VMware, and what it brings to the table, and what it's capable of? As big of keywords as 'virtualization' and...
View ArticleInteresting night with vMotion...
So just a quick note here. We are staging our NetApp + Nexus 10GbE upgrade/migration, and was going through the motions, moving VM's off in order to add the 10GbE NIC's, and start running into Host...
View ArticleNetApp Snap*; What does it all mean?!
Snapshot. Snapvault. Snapmanager. SnapLock. SnapDrive. SnapMirror. Are you screaming and confused yet? Don't worry. Most of their new customers are, as was I, until about a couple of years or so ago...
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Life in the Fast Lane (10GbE!)
We might be what you would call an early adopter of 10GbE at my company. We've now been on it a little over a year. We were quick to abandon any Fiber-Channel or block-level sort of storage...
View ArticleVMworld 2010!
I thought I would sit down and make some notes for myself with regards to what I was looking forward to most at VMworld 2010, and then revisit them AFTER the show to see how rewarding it was, what I...
View ArticleUpgrade your NetApp DataONTAP! (7.3.3P2/P4)
Are you a NetApp customer?Do you know which version of DataONTAP your storage system(s) are running? As of today, we are currently running on 7.3.1.1P8. This system had 337 days of uptime. I was...
View ArticleIt's not even VMworld yet...and I'm already winning stuff!
This morning, I sat down at my computer with a cup of coffee and start perusing thru my Inbox, and happened across this email from Greg Stuart of vDestination: Congrats Nick, you are the lucky winner...
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Vegas, baby, VEGAS!!!
In case you missed the announcement earlier this week, you'll be excited to know that VMworld 2011 has been moved to Las Vegas. My only additional comment on this is....."WOOOOOHOOOOO!!! One can only...
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VMworld 2010 winnings!
This year was certainly an unprecedented, and albeit unEXPECTedly, lucrative conference for me. Whoever says they don't believe in luck, chance, and coincidence should re-evaluate their belief systems....
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NetApp VSC 2.0: The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly
...but not necessarily in that order. In this post, I hope to do a full review of my personal experience with VSC1 and 2, as well as some hopes and projections as to where I WOULD HOPE TO see it go in...
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vCenter 4.x SQL DB: Defrag it!
My vCenter has been loading slow for as long as I can remember. It finally got annoying enough to do something about. "Certainly, they've made this better by now." So I got a fresh drink, dug in,...
View ArticleGoodbye VMware Communities, Hello Blogspot!
Unfortunately, I'm just unhappy here trying to work around the auto-formatting that the VMware communities does for you. I like to have a little more control over it, for better or worse. So, I'm...
View ArticleIntroductions
In 1999, a friend of mine approached me asking me if I wanted to help him run some cables in an office building for $10/hr. I said sure. Being a techy-guy, I started asking questions about what...
View ArticleUpgrading to vSphere 4 - The Experience (Part 1)
The day had arrived. After many marketing documents, press releases, and speculative forum posts, we were all waiting with baited breath to see just how VMware could make one of the most revolutionary...
View ArticleOracle on VMware - One Man's battle against a titan.
Is it just me, or is there still a lot of taboo and misinformation in our industry about VMware, and what it brings to the table, and what it's capable of? As big of keywords as 'virtualization' and...
View ArticleInteresting night with vMotion...
So just a quick note here. We are staging our NetApp + Nexus 10GbE upgrade/migration, and was going through the motions, moving VM's off in order to add the 10GbE NIC's, and start running into Host...
View ArticleNetApp Snap*; What does it all mean?!
Snapshot. Snapvault. Snapmanager. SnapLock. SnapDrive. SnapMirror. Are you screaming and confused yet? Don't worry. Most of their new customers are, as was I, until about a couple of years or so ago...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Life in the Fast Lane (10GbE!)
We might be what you would call an early adopter of 10GbE at my company. We've now been on it a little over a year. We were quick to abandon any Fiber-Channel or block-level sort of storage...
View Article