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What's New in vSphere 4.1 - Network IO Control

Network Traffic Management. A great new feature allowing you to define shares on the Network traffic of your ESX servers. The diagram at left should be familiar to most. When using 1GigE NICs, ESX …

  • vSphere
  • 4.1
  • VMware
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What's New in vSphere 4.1 - Storage IO Control

After all the videos and Posts published regarding the new Feature of SIOC, here are some of the new features and solutions that SIOC addresses. The problem Storage I/O control is addressing is the …

  • vSphere
  • 4.1
  • VMware
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SureBackup Demo - Veeam Backup & Replication 5

Veeam will be releasing a new Backup product including verification of the integrity of the backup job. I blogged about this a few months ago I would like to point you to a small Demo that was brought …

  • Tools
  • Administration
  • VMware
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Plug-ins and Tomcat

I have another post coming up regarding 2rd party plug-ins - explaining a few things I have learned over the past two days - regarding SSL and getting that to work with your properly in the vSphere …

  • Tools
  • Management
  • vSphere
  • Administration
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PowerCLI - What Will the Future Hold?

This is just a small rant on my part, so forgive me if it comes over the wrong way. Carter Shanklin left the PowerCLI team about at the end of April 2010. For those of you who do not know, Carter was …

  • Miscellaneous
  • VMware
  • PowerCLI
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Updating pictures for Users in AD - pt. 2

The last sentence in my previous post on Updating Pictures for Users in AD was: Now the only part hat needs to be taken care of - is getting a proper image from HR in the correct size. Maybe we will …

  • Active Directory
  • Tools
  • Scripting
  • Powershell
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Be Careful of the 9th Host in the Cluster

I was looking yesterday at post from Matt McSpirit regarding the Cluster Limits of Hyper-V. I started to look at how this would compare to vSphere. I do not want to go into who can cram more …

  • vSphere
  • Miscellaneous
  • VMware
  • ESX
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Get-AllDomainControllers Function

Sometimes you would like to run a query against all DC’s in your forest. For example today – I was looking a specific error on the System Event Logs. Here is a quick way to get all the DC’s in …

  • Active Directory
  • Tools
  • Scripting
  • Powershell
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Benchmarking your Disk I/O

How fast is your storage? How do you even check what kind of throughput you are getting? That is a question that comes up often enough, when performing benchmarks. I actually dealt with such a case …

  • Management
  • Administration
  • Troubleshooting
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Virtualization Domain Controllers - #2

I received a number of comments on my previous post and offline as well I want to clear up some things regarding the previous post. I am not against virtualizing domain controllers - not at all. I am …

  • Active Directory
  • Microsoft
  • Virtualization
  • Windows