June 22, 2012
Lowering Disaster Recovery Costs with Site Recovery Manager
Setting up a disaster recovery site can be a costly endeavor. VMware Site Recovery Manager has made disaster recovery much…
June 18, 2012
VMware SRM Gotchas
I recently presented my current employers DR Strategy at the Chicago Vmug and had several comments about the gotchas section…
June 5, 2012
vSphere 5 AutoDeploy Basics
vSphere AutoDeploy always seemed like a lot of work to setup just to deploy a few VMware hosts, but in…
May 31, 2012
Using PowerCLI for VMware Update Manager
You never know when you’ll need to script something and PowerCLI gives you the tools to do it. I decided…
May 29, 2012
Upgrading ESXi hosts using VMware Update Manager
Unlike many operating systems, VMware ESXi gives you a nice tool to upgrade their hypervisor to the latest version. VMware…
May 20, 2012
Simple Free VMware Backups
If you need to backup some of your virtual machines, maybe it’s time to consider VMware Data Recovery 2.0. This…
May 8, 2012
NLB in vSphere (Unicast or Multicast)?
Suppose you have multiple virtual machines that you would like to distribute load across that are housed inside of your…
May 3, 2012
Poor Man’s SRM Lab (Whitebox)
I really wanted to test out some VMware Site Recovery Manager scenarios and realized that buying SANs, servers and networking…
May 1, 2012
Netapp VASA Provider 1.0
Netapp has released their vStorage APIs for Storage Awareness (VASA) provider 1.0 to their support site. http://support.netapp.com If you’re not that…
April 24, 2012
VMware Replication Setup for Site Recovery Manager
Recently, I wrote a blog post about how to setup and configure VMware Site Recovery Manager for vSphere 5.0. This…