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Articles by Brian Suhr

I’m a Senior Virtualization Engineer and Architect working for HP Enterprise Services. I’ve worked in the IT Industry since 1991, and worked for several companies. I use this blog to document tips and problems I encounter during my work and stuff I read about. I’m a VMware Certified Professional (VCP VI3.5) MCSE on Windows NT – 2000, Cisco CCNA/CCDA. I am currently working on upgrading my VCP to vSphere and will be pursuing my VMware Certified Design Expert (VCDX) next. My interest is in all virtualization related technologies.

VMware adds desktop certification to its lineup – VCA4-DT, VCP4-DT and VCAP-DT
February 17, 2011 – 11:30 am | No Comment
VMware adds desktop certification to its lineup – VCA4-DT, VCP4-DT and VCAP-DT

By Brian Suhr
With each year that passes Virtual Desktops or VDI continues to become a priority to more companies. For the last several years different consultants and media people are quick to declare this as …

How to reset blade slot in HP C7000 chassis
January 17, 2011 – 12:04 pm | No Comment
How to reset blade slot in HP C7000 chassis

By Brian Suhr
This issue has not come up very often but with more admins working remotely these days and not being able to touch the hardware. This can be a life saver if no one …

Which storage array vendors support VMware VAAI today
November 26, 2010 – 9:55 am | One Comment
Which storage array vendors support VMware VAAI today

By Brian Suhr
I’ve been waiting for someone to put something like this together for awhile now. If you wanted to know which Storage vendors are supporting VMware VAAI today or when they will be this …

Lab Manager configurations are only deploying to one datastore
November 8, 2010 – 10:07 am | No Comment
Lab Manager configurations are only deploying to one datastore

Hopefully you are fairly familiar with how VMware Lab Manager works and I don’t loose you. The limit that I will cover here is when you are creating a New Configuration in a…

VMware Labs announces VIX Plugin for vCenter Orchestrator
October 22, 2010 – 4:41 pm | No Comment
VMware Labs announces VIX Plugin for vCenter Orchestrator

By Brian Suhr
Looks like the engineers at VMware are not slowing down with the cool toys they keep releasing via VMware Labs. These are usually side projects for them that are very helpful to the …

More VMware iPad app goodness at VMworld Copenhagen 2010
October 19, 2010 – 9:44 am | No Comment
More VMware iPad app goodness at VMworld Copenhagen 2010

By Brian Suhr
Some people were hoping to hear that the VMware iPad app for vSphere Management would be released at VMworld Copenhagen but that was not the case. We did get another look at the …

Initial setup for VMware vCloud Director and setting up provider vDC
October 5, 2010 – 12:32 pm | No Comment
Initial setup for VMware vCloud Director and setting up provider vDC

I wanted to showcase the initial setup wizard for those of you new to setting of VMware vCloud Director. Once you have created and installed all of the Hosts, vCenter server, Database, vShield and the vCD cell you then need to setup vCD…

Microsoft updates Virtual Machine Servicing Tool 3.0 Beta
August 23, 2010 – 9:13 am | No Comment
Microsoft updates Virtual Machine Servicing Tool 3.0 Beta

This tool continues to interest me for one main reason, the ability to patch offline virtual machines. That feature is something that has come up in a couple of projects recently. I look forward to …