Tag: VMware

Jun 13

CloudCred Videos

Yes I’m giving into gamification. I’m participating in VMware’s Cloud Cred program, err game. And I am shamelessly plugging their videos on my blog for a chance to win an Xbox. That said I will say these are pretty good videos filled with several Microsoft jokes. If you get a chance to watch them do. …

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Jun 11

VMware SRM 5.1 Delay the rescan…

While working on a demo of VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) I kept getting the following error when I would try to test my recovery plan.   [error] Recovered datastore ‘snap-########-<LUN NAME>’ is not visible to host ‘<Host Name>’. Recovered VMFS volume ‘snap-########-<LUN NAME>’ is not visible or not mounted on host ‘<Host Name>’. Recovered …

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Apr 24

VMware Horizon Workspace Initial Setup

While building a demo environment of VMware Horizon Workspace for EMC World 2013 I found that if you want to use a domain administrative or service account for connecting Workspace to the vCenter (this is needed so that workspace can monitor its own VM’s health) you will need to negate the ‘\’ for the domain. …

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Sep 09

Redacted Presentation

Here are the slides for my VMworld Community Presentation powered by vBrownbag on VDP. The reason its called redacted is because until VMworld came out I was not able to publicly talk about VDP and so all of the posts on twitter and other social media sites always used redacted as my reference to this new technology. …

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Jul 27

Funny ways to explain things… Part II (VMware)

My first blog post on how to explain technical things to non-technical people I talked about how I explain storage concepts surrounding EqualLogic and VMware. (https://www.wondernerd.net/funny-ways-to-explain-things/) In today’s post I’m going to share some on how I explain Virtualization concepts to non-techies. Before we get started I hope this series of posts doesn’t qualify me …

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Jul 23

Funny ways to explain things…

Since I do tech support, installation, and some pre-sales where I currently work I have to come up with interesting ways to explain different aspects of technology in non-technical terms. Most of these revolve around Dell/EqualLogic storage. They may help you they may not. You may even find them funny. If they’re helpful feel free …

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Jul 10

Configuring vSwitches From an SSH Session on an ESXi Host

Most of the time I work with SMB sized customers. Most of them don’t want or need to know the ends and outs of their vSwitch configuration (or much of the underlying configuration at all) because they don’t intend on needing to change it. If they want to modify something they will send in a …

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Jun 26

The wheels on Willy Wonka’s bus go round and crossways…

While driving  back to my hotel this evening from a clients site I had an interesting thought… Now I wonder how it can be applied to virtualization and storage… Here’s the thought: I grew up in a little town in Kansas and I knew all the back roads and roads that didn’t exist and all …

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Jun 04

VeeamZIP Released Today

Today Veeam released something awesome! Veeam 6.1. Normally I don’t blog about products Eagle,  the company I work for, doesn’t currently sell. This is a special case. Veeam has released something that I am excited to talk about. Rick Vanover  (@RickVanover) invited me to a sneak peak of Veeam 6.1 last Friday. During this peak …

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May 10

Storage in 3D or maybe 4D (multidimensional arrays)

4 Cubes

Last night I had this strange dream where I was literally arranging the interior walls of a hotel on a very high floor. I’d grab a wall and drag it into place then another one. For some reason it seemed like my task was to create the most efficient use of space. This got me …

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