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How To Backup VMware ESX Virtual Machines with Doyenz
April 12, 2011 – 2:47 am | No Comment
How To Backup VMware ESX Virtual Machines with Doyenz

Last week Doyenz , a privately held software company based in Bellevue, Washington, hosted a webinar for potential partners interested in looking to resell cloud-based disaster recovery services from Doyenz.
Doyenz only sells through the reseller …

Using a Network Packet Analyzer on a VMware vSphere Virtual Network
February 5, 2011 – 6:51 pm | No Comment
Using a Network Packet Analyzer on a VMware vSphere Virtual Network

From Petri IT Knowledgebase: Using a Network Packet Analyzer on a VMware vSphere Virtual Network
Instructions by David Davis on analyzing network issues over a virtual network with a network packet analyzer.

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 …

Initial setup of Brocade DCX SAN fabric switches
December 27, 2010 – 4:34 pm | No Comment
Initial setup of Brocade DCX SAN fabric switches

By Brian Suhr
This week I have been working on setting up the SAN Fabric in a new part of a clients Datacenter. Within the last week new HP EVA and HP XP storage arrays were …

How to create configurations and use workspaces in VMware Lab Manager
December 27, 2010 – 4:10 pm | No Comment
How to create configurations and use workspaces in VMware Lab Manager

This post is to help people new to VMware Lab Manager and not for the experts. If you are looking for details on how to use some of the features…

Google is hiring 2,000 people – How to get a job at Google
November 26, 2010 – 9:48 am | No Comment
Google is hiring 2,000 people – How to get a job at Google

By Donald Dodge
Google has over 2,000 job openings now. You can find a complete list of the jobs here. Google currently employs about 23,000 people worldwide. The openings are in nearly all job categories and …

How to configure EMC PowerPath to work with HP EVA storage arrays
November 3, 2010 – 2:22 pm | No Comment
How to configure EMC PowerPath to work with HP EVA storage arrays

By Brian Suhr
On one of the projects that I have been working on lately we have been replacing all of the existing EMC storage with HP Storage. I’m not going to go into which one …

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…

HP SSSU Overview – Part II
September 27, 2010 – 11:15 am | No Comment
HP SSSU Overview – Part II

By Mike Mills
Now, in a previous posting, I mentioned that I would talk more about SSSU, especially in talking about how to export the information and then put it into a human readable format. SSSU …