Last week VMware released its latest update to vSphere 5.0. This is basically a bug fix release without a whole lot of added features. To see what was updated please check out the release notes here. Please also read the compatibility guides and known issues before you perform any upgrades. This particular blog was written while…
A few weeks ago I wrote a blog about setting up vSphere SRM 5.0 with EMC Mirrorview. Now that’s all well and good, but if you don’t have a LUN from your protected site being replicated to your recovery site, none of that will work! A LUN is an acronym for Logical Unit. It’s basically a…
Most people who know me know that I’m not an Apple person. I have an iPod Nano that’s about four years old and that’s about it. However, I’m slowly but surely recognizing the need for acceptance of various operating systems in the professional world. This is why I thought I would take an old Mac…
For the last several weeks I’ve been waiting with bated breath for VMware to approve the EMC MirrorView Site Recovery Adapter (SRA) for VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM). I’ve checked the VMware site many times only to be disappointed that it was not showing up. There was talk of it on VMware Communities Roundtable Podcast and Twitter,…
n the first part of this series we went through setting up the inside interfaces and static routes to enable communication on the inside. Of course, what good is that if we don’t have an outside route set up so your users can access YouTube and Facebook to their heart’s content. For this setup, you can either…
t’s not just an urban legend. In this age of thin provisioning and growing snapshots, datastores really can (and do) run out of space! vSphere 5 luckily handles it a little better than the previous versions, which just automatically shut down you virtual machine. Now vSphere 5 will simply pause the machine. However, there are…
In part one of my ASA firewall series I went through the initial updating and preparing inside interfaces and routes. I don’t know about you, but I’m pretty lazy, so my first priority is to allow access to network devices from anywhere on the network. I’ll do a quick run-through on setting up management access and then…
At one of my sites we’ve decided to change out our Juniper firewalls for a couple Cisco ASAs. This is nothing against Juniper, I’m just used to working with Cisco. I’ve planned on taking this step by step, because the top priority is getting a real VPN solution up and running. I really enjoy working…
I know I’m not the first to attempt writing a succinct guide to quickly setting up a virtual private network (VPN) using Cisco gear, but I’m hoping this guide will be a one stop shop (blog) on how it’s done with an ASA 5505 that also allows users to connect to the internet. The ASA…