April 16, 2013
Active Directory vCheck
When I was a Systems Administrator, one of the things we wanted to know was if there were issues with…
April 15, 2013
QLogic 10000 Series Adapters
QLogic has introduced a new product that combines their already reliable Fibre Channel host bus adapters with solid state storage…
April 9, 2013
Baby Dragon Home Lab
My configuration is listed below if anyone is interested in the details. Similar designs have…
April 8, 2013
New from HP: Project Moonshot
Today HP announced their new initiative called Project Moonshot. This initiative takes converged infrastructure and puts…
April 1, 2013
Biggest Single Point of Failure
I see a good number of IT shops with my job and in most cases the largest priority is system…
March 26, 2013
Are you thin or thick? Where at?
I’m often asked about how to provision virtual machine disks. This almost always comes down to, “Should I use thick…
March 21, 2013
How should Network Cables be Labeled?
I’ve recently had to label more network cables than I care to discuss, but found my mind wondering over the…
March 18, 2013
HP Virtual Connect MAC Addresses and WWNs
One of the benefits of using HP Virtual Connect in C-class blade Chassis is the ability to have MAC Addresses…
March 11, 2013
Windows Server 2012 DHCP High Availability
One of the new features I really wanted to check out in Server 2012 was the ability to…
March 5, 2013
NAT vs PAT
I often hear Port Address Translation (PAT)referred to as Network Address Translation (NAT). Its a pretty common to hear this…