I have been a Windows guy from a very early age (actually I was a DOS guy before becoming a Windows guy) and it’s with surprise that I find myself in my current predicament. I recently had a go of… Continue Reading
I recently decided to upgrade my vSphere 4 lab to vSphere 5, one of the things I did at the time was consolidate my SQL environments to a single platform (I have in the past had SQL 2005, 2008 and… Continue Reading
Last week Microsoft launched the Windows 8 Consumer Preview, rather than installing the preview onto any of my existing hardware I decided to give it a go on VMware Workstation 8 before trusting it to a dedicated machine. As this… Continue Reading
I have been a big fan of the Raxco products for a while now so when I heard that they had a new product about to launch I decided to do a blog post about it. Raxco launched PerfectDisk12 in… Continue Reading
I am going through a project at home to centralise my ESXi and Windows Event Logs using Splunk and Snare and part of that process was going through my Event logs to try and fix any niggling issues. Going through… Continue Reading
Well having a single Win 2008 R2 server running Hyper-V is proving to be a bit of a problem for me. Over the last couple of weeks I have installed my virtualised environment onto three of my four TS200 servers.… Continue Reading
It’s begun, over the weekend I started to put together my-homelab. In order to build up the environment detailed on my Home Labs page, I used 3 of my Lenovo TS200 servers, 2 of them with e3440 Xeon processors (ESXi)… Continue Reading
Well folks, it’s nearly the end of 2010 and it’s been an interesting year. I have decided that next year I have a number of goals that I want to attain, these are. * Sit and pass my VCP vSphere… Continue Reading
I had been looking for a new switch to use in my home lab, I needed something that could handle jumbo frames as well as vlan’s, it also needed to be larger than 8 ports as I have a large… Continue Reading
Hopefully I will be finding out more today. I am trying to persuade work that virtualisation is definitely the route to go, senior management are buying in but unfortunately junior management aren’t. That means a convincing business case is needed.… Continue Reading