The E2EVC conference will be held for the 10th time this year and what better place than Copenhagen!
Finally I have no travel excuse for not attending and at the same time it will be a great opportunity to meet up with industry peers.
This years venue is Scandic...
Today a customer called me up. He had two EqualLogic units setup with replication from one to the other.
After setting this up and verifying replication worked as expected he started to recieve e-mails like this:
[ID: 4.18] Schedule <name of schedule> for...
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Today I visited a customer to perform a health check. Their system consisted of VMware ESXi hosts running on EqualLogic SAN storage.
The volumes on the EqualLogic were thin provisioned and one of them were running ALMOST full plus a good way beyond the warning...
I was fortunate enough to be invited to particiate in the Dell Storage Forum 2012 Fluid Forward Think Tank by Alison Krause of Dell.
This year the conference is taking place in Paris. If you are unable to come participate then please join in on the Twitter conversation...
A customer called me while configuring two new Dell PowerConnect 6224 switches in a stack. After stacking the switches no ports on unit 2 would link up.
The web interface also looked wierd:
As you can see above the switch looks like it has no ports at all.
As...
This week I have been attending the Microsoft Essential Presentation Skills course. Originally I was inspired to attend this course after reading about the opportunities with becoming a Microsoft Certified Trainer in a blog post by Ben Bedo on the Trainsignal...
If you are going to VMworld 2013 either in USA or Europe you should vote on your favorite sessions to ensure you can actually attend them
First step is to create an account.
Last step is to sign in and you are good to go!
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Today I had a customer requesting that their users maintain their most recently used programs list in the Windows Start Menu.
Research showed we need to save the following folders:
%APPDATA%\Microsoft\Windows\Recent
%APPDATA%\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick...
This week a customer called me. He was unable to Storage vMotion a VM from one datastore to another in his VMware ESXi 5.1 environment.
The error shown was:
The method is disabled by ‘vm-3556′
My first suggestion was to perform a regular vMotion to...
