Recently I was working with a company on their VMware View 4.6 environment. They had been testing it for several months, but always experienced some issues. They added some more pools and a couple hosts (ESXi 5.0 servers) and the issues seemed to get worse. Of course all the errors were intermittent and so it…
had the pleasure of attending VMware’s VMworld conference this past week in San Francisco and sat in on several sessions. One of my favorites was called Troubleshooting Using vCenter Operations Manager, given by Kit Colbert and Praveen Kannan. They did a live lab in the session that turned out really well and showed how useful vCenter…
I’ve been playing around with different ways of implementing FTP lately–that is, whether to use Windows, Linux, or just some sort of storage device with built-in FTP capabilities. I spent a bit of time creating an Ubuntu 12.04 FTP server and thought I’d share that experience in this post. As mentioned before, I’ll be going…
I had a couple Zenoss VMware appliances that run Linux that needed to have more space allocated to them. I knew just adding another hard drive wouldn’t solve the issue so I set about finding the least intrusive way to do this and not break the whole VM appliance. If you’ve ever used Zenoss, you know the…
We decided to replace some of our old NAS (Network Attached Storage) devices with some new devices that work a little better and offer some more features. Using a NAS device would also help us save our SAN storage space for tier-one apps, etc. We ordered a couple of QNAP Model TS-1279U-RP appliances to do…
Executive Summary Author Lauren Malhoit explains how to integrate Macs into a Windows shop. Topics include: Creating the connection between Mac Server and Active Directory Configuring Profile Manager and Time Machine on Mac Server Setting up Software Update service with Mac Server Setting up Mac Server as a print server Configure final connections between Mac…
Since we started out as a small company, we didn’t see much need to make use of KMS keys and servers. However, as we continue to grow, it’s become much easier to create images and use KMS keys to make computer deployment more efficient. When I first started reading blogs and KB articles to implement…
Have you heard of or used VMware Flings before? The definition of fling on the website is: “A fling is a short-term thing, not a serious relationship but a fun one. Likewise, the tools that are offered here are intended to be played with and explored.” That’s just what I did with the newest version of vBenchmark,…
One of my company’s big initiatives this year is “learning and growing.” It’s an important focus, especially in IT. The IT field has a ton of offerings for formal training, but another important aspect is networking with other professionals in your area. I spoke about this briefly in a blog I wrote earlier this year about Staying on…
Last year I began my search for an encryption solution for end-user computers. I did some research on several different well-known solutions and ended up picking Mobile Armor’s Data Armor (now owned by Trend Micro). My thinking was that Trend Micro’s Anti-Virus solution integrates well with VMware, so if we changed to Trend Micro AV…