Build A Custom Rack Server Cabinet for Your Home Lab
Do you want a server cabinet for your home lab? Here’s how to build a custom rack server cabinet on a small budget. This idea works perfectly for the …
Best In Class Hardware (Anything to Show for It?)
In all, I’ve probably been to 75 or more Cisco, HP, Dell, EMC, NetApp, and other Best in Class hardware vendor demos where they were pitching VMware solutions… …and …
Why Virtualization Fails: 3 Reasons We Don’t Talk About
Warning: This is a Touchy Topic! Bad (storage, server, and network) configs are a few examples of why virtualization fails but these are technical in nature and are often …
vSphere Operations Management Tasks: What to Expect
Years of managing virtualization has given me a unique perspective most IT Managers will soon develop as their vSphere Operations Management tasks grow exponentially. The perspective is – vSphere Operations Management is time-consuming …
VMware for Beginners: Collection of 23 Virtualization Basics
These VMware for Beginners articles were written especially for techs new to virtualization. Intro. Writing as someone who has been a VMware beginner, I know what it’s like to …
Server Consolidation Plan: Risk of Biting Off Too Much!
In 2008 I took a virtualization engineer job with a large online company and immediately was tasked with helping the server consolidation project. Like most companies that had been …